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Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Samplers

From: <james.parthun@att.net>
Date: 2008-08-22

I purchased on ebay several years ago an Akai CD3000 samplerspecifically to play my Pinder Mellotron CD. It loads “tape sets”directly from its CD drive into internal memory. I use whatever midi keyboard Iwant to trigger the samples. Typically, I will load MKII strings and 8 VoiceChoir into memory and trigger it from my Korg Triton Pro and put the strings onone half of the keyboard and choir on the other. It’s kind of like havinga MKII Mellotron. Obviously I can use any combination of layers or splits aswell.

 

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Jim Parthun

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From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Mark Pring
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 20085:51 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup]Off topic Samplers

 

I am not clear about this myself.  I know nothing about samplers. I have a midi keyboard. I assume that the keyboard attatches via a midi cable to the sampler. I assume that the samples could be loaded from CD rom directly into the sampler ( my preferred option ) or via a USB cable from a computer. I assume that the output signal comes from the sampler and can then be sent to a mixer and powered speakers.

Is that correct?

Mark

--- On Fri, 8/22/08, lsf5275@aol. com <lsf5275@aol. com> wrote:

From: lsf5275@aol. com <lsf5275@aol. com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Samplers
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, August 22, 2008, 10:27 AM

In a message dated 8/21/2008 5:32:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, i_am_zontar@ yahoo.com writes:

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Samplers

> I could also recommend the Akai Z4 or Z8. You can expand it up to 512 meg >which means you have a lot of sounds to play around with before you have >to load again from the hard disk. I find the architecture very easy for me >to use. You would have to connect an external CD drive or load sounds >directly from the computer via usb. The Akai interface software has been >easy for me to use also.

i second the akai suggestion.
the newer ones have:
usb available for direct connection to a computer

software [free] that utilizes that interface

allows direct importing of .wav files for EASY importing of just about any audio file you might want to put in it

i have an ensoniq asr-10 and an emu esi4000.
they both have serious limitations that cannot be overcome.
they are, in some ways, complimentary, and i use them both all the time.
but... the recent akais have, to put it simply, removed all the limitations that make these others cumbersome difficult and restrictive. if i recall the s5000 and s6000 are both usb-capable as are the z-∗ series, but do verify this before purchasing. they are all available on ebay all the time.

some people find the akai operating system unfriendly, but i think it's one of those things that the more you use it the easier it becomes, and just a small investment in time makes it all worthwhile.. .

>I am thinking of buying a sampler, but I do not know much about them. I >would be buying second hand in New Zealand so it would probably be be 4-5 >years old and would be a very popular model. Being a small country there >is a very limited choice of musical equipment anything even slightly >unusual is not likely to be imported.
>
>It would need to be simple and load from CD rom and connect via usb to a >midi keyboard.

can you please clarify this statement?
midi and usb are, obviously, not the same, and not for the same purposes.

>If anyone can help with advice and has the time to answer some questions, >please contact me off list.

>Thanks
>Mark

 

 

I thought the other guy was Zontar.



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