[sdiy] Sampler or turd polisher?

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow All.
         While I'm here, I was wondering if I could garner some wisdom.

In short, I am on a quest for a sampler.

I don't suppose anyone here has a copy of A3Kdisky by chance? That would 
allow me to actually talk to my Yamaha A4000. "Apparently?"

I have tried nearly all of the software solutions. They can pack as many 
bells and whistles into them as they like, they're all still polished 
turds. None of them can do something as simple and basic as a patch change. 
So the sequencer can't control them. What's the point of having the best 
sampler in the world if all it can do is play the one sound?

The A4000 would be an adequate solution but for the fact that you can't 
talk to it's proprietary file system. A3Kdisky allows you to do that 
apparently but it's nowhere to be found on the net. I even tracked down the 
guy who wrote it. He said even he didn't have a copy. There was also some 
kind of legal issue with Yamaha over the proprietary nature of their file 
system.

I spent months researching linux audio. They all seem about 10 years behind 
the curve. Really big on rinky software FM synths at the moment it would 
seem. I could never get the linux-sampler-project working so I couldn't 
even evaluate it. When you ask the linux people if it can do a patch/bank 
change, they just look at you side ways. They don't seem to understand the 
concept. Besides, any real-time, mission-critical app written in Java is 
just asking for trouble. (Oops. Sorry about that Android lovers.)

And there's no modern hardware equivalent outside buying one of those over 
bloated but even more proprietary, all-singing, all-dancing work stations.

If I've got the current paradigm right, what we seem to be expected to do 
is use some bloatware sampler for production. (NI, Steinberg, 
propellerheads etc.) Then re-tool everything so that it can be shoe-horned 
into something like Ableton Live. Actually I like Ableton but it's not very 
"musical." Designed mainly for DJs it would seem. The scratch and sniff 
set. All loops and bloops.

As a friend of mine recently put it;
- On Monday morning, a musician's friend will ask. "Where did you play on 
the weekend?"
- Whereas a DJ's friend will ask. "Where did you press [play] on the weekend?"

So if anyone here has any opinion to offer on the matter, I'm all ears. 
What do other people do for sampling?

Thanks in advance.

Be absolutely icebox.

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