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Subject: samplers

From: Randy Johnson <daltec@...>
Date: 2001-04-12

Hello all, and thank you for the opportunity of introducing myself. I have
been a lurker for sometime, but this is my first official post. In previous
posts there have been a few mentions of samplers being used as AN1X
emulators. I do not know much about samplers, so perhaps my question is an
uninformed one, but I was wondering, what is the advantage of using an
actual sampler to do this, as opposed to just recording the AN1X sounds into
software? The reason I ask is because a friend has offered his old ESI
sampler to me for next to nothing, and I was just wondering what new
abilities this would provide me with. What do I get for the money, that is.
Because as it is now, I record sounds, loops, etc onto the hard drive, edit
them, monkey with them, drop them into Deck (yeah yeah, I know, but old
habits die hard), and go from there. Would a sampler simply make this task
easier, or do they have capabilities of which I am simply unaware? (As I
said, I do not know much about samplers.)

BTW feel free to e-mail me privately if this is too off topic. Thank you for
your patience.

daltec


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