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>>Midi sample dumps are not an option<br>
>I'm curious, why not?<br>
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I'm not into samplers where you load a semi-static sample set and then
play that. I grew up with trackers and want to tweak the sounds. SDS is
way too slow; I'd be better off using my EPS16+.<br>
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Oh, 4kB is enough for quite some stuff. Of course not the Bösendorfer or<br>anything "real acoustic", but as a starting wave for *synthesis* it's
<br>enough. With a total of let's say 128kB of memory you have a nice basic set of<br>waveforms and it'll still take you just 48 seconds to transmit that lot<br>over MIDI.</blockquote></div>
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While I certainly agree that you don't need 4 GB RAM for useful
sampling, I'm somewhat younger than Rainer and am aiming more at 16
bits 4 MB than 8 bits 4 kB, me spoiled brat! :-)<br>
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What I want to do is to put a simple sampler + effects box in my
sequencer/control station, built around a 486 card. Currently I'm
working with an AWE32, but it is very limitated, and doesn't sound too
good (not without some effort anyway). I've considered a GUS, but it
totally lacks features. Therefore 4 kB for synth-style sampling isn't
what I'm after - for that I have the ESQ-1.<br>
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While 128 kB and an Chameleon would be good for playing back samples,
my idea is to integrate a sample-editor and offline processor into the
sampler, and then 1 min response time won't cut it.<br>
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In a way, getting a Pentium card and going the software route might
still be the best way, but it's so cumbersome... Then again, I guess
external DSP is even worse.<br>
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However those Pentium industrial PC type cards are rare and expensive,
too. Anyway, I always thought it was much easier to have 2 separate
systems running autonomously (one sequencer + one sampleplayer) than
trying to figure out some clever way of making the timing work, and
then there's DMA buffer latencies and whatnot.<br>
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I'll be sure to check out the Sigma and Blackfin! MIDI wouldn't be
needed, as all that stuff would be done on the 486. In fact, that's one
of the reasons I want an ISA board, to eliminate MIDI latency.<br>