<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Haha! Thats a great question - reminds me of the youtube version of I am sitting in a room - some guy uploaded/downloaded a video of himself reciting the text 1000x times and it gradually turns into a pastel coloured smear with very ambient sounding skype-ish soundscapes 🥰<br><br><div dir="ltr">sent from outer space</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 13 Aug 2024, at 10:03, Mattias Rickardsson <mr@analogue.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">What would Alvin Lucier have done with a sampler with tape dump feature? ;-)<div><br></div><div>("I am sitting in a room" -> "I am sampling in a dump"...)</div><div><br></div><div>/mr</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 at 09:46, Adam (synthDIY) <<a href="mailto:synthdiy@adambaby.com">synthdiy@adambaby.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br id="m_7411377097544902864lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Aug 2024, at 5:04 PM, Mattias Rickardsson <<a href="mailto:mr@analogue.org" target="_blank">mr@analogue.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>The tape dump method is of course much "better" since it's lossless, and also might have needed less expensive/messy hardware solutions back in the day.</span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Ha ha exactly! </div><div>"Makes sense on paper" doesn't it...</div><div>but the "lossy" use of these things just adds to their character, musically, of course</div><div><br></div><div>(e.g. the S612 has this fabulous function they call "Overdub" where you can record a new sample over the previous one... ad infinitum.. with the sampler making adjustments to the gain each time to compensate... )</div><div><br></div><div>A</div></div></blockquote></div>
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