Interesting. My opinion was - it sucked. I had one
long enough to learn how to use every part of it, and, it totally
sucked.
If you are of the other opinion, one thing you will
definitely want to but is an external zip drive, that you can attach to your
computer. There is a free Roland software applet that allows you to transfer
audio files directly to disk, something like the command station
e-loader.
----- Original Message -----From: erik_magrini@...Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:16 AMSubject: [xl7] Re: SP808
It's a phrase sampler, not a regular sampler, just FYI. You can't play samples chromatically, just loops and one off events. But it does so straight from a Zip disk, so you can get up to 250MB worth of samples at your disposal. It also acts as a hard disk recorder, and that was what I used mine for originally. The effects are way cool too, and are very flexible. The downside is that it can only handle 4 stereo audio files at once, and it only has 4 tracks for recording. So you could be playing back 3 track and record one at the same time. If you're serious about getting one, get a regular sp808 as they're much cheaper right now. The OS from a newer EX can be copied to ZIP, and loaded into the regular 808 in about 30 seconds flat. Also, the regular 808's come with a 100MB zip drive, but it's easy to swap it with a larger 250MB internal zip, all for much cheaper than the EX version. ! ;I! may get another one myself someday, once you get the feel for all that the sp808 can do, it's extremely flexible. I did not want to sell mine....
rEalm
how many samples can the sp808 or Ex play???? thought to bought one... would
have to sell my ESI32...
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