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| 2601.1 | $.02 worth | NIMBUS::DAVIS | | Thu Mar 21 1991 08:51 | 12 |
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Based just on the synths I've personally heard (not all that many), I
would think the Roland U-220 would be a very good choice. Good piano
sounds, some killer (IMO) sax and horns, and a nice range of
drums/percussion. Don't remember off hand if the drums were "jazzy",
but you do have quite a bit of control to modify characteristics of the
basic percussion samples, and there are some extra sounds available on
plug-in memory cards. I seem to remember that there were quite a few
latin percussion sounds which would probably work well with jazz.
Rob
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| 2601.2 | Tough To Get Brushes | IXION::ROST | I dreamed I was Roy Estrada | Thu Mar 21 1991 09:04 | 11 |
| In general, "jazz" drums, with brushes, are hard to find. The late
lamented Korg P3/O3 offered a "jazz" card with brush played drums as
well as a fretless bass guitar, and the Roland R8 drum machine can add
brush sounds with a ROM card. Beyond that, it's off to find a real
sampler and then find some disks with brush drums....an expensive
proposition.
I expect the reason is that the market for such goodies is more in the
pop vein, brushes not being too popular in that idiom, eh? 8^) 8^)
Brian
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| 2601.3 | for the percussion portion... | STOHUB::TRIGG::EATON | In tents | Thu Mar 21 1991 09:43 | 1 |
| The R5 drum machine has brush snare and brush cymbal (ride) resident.
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| 2601.4 | Which means the R8 has... | XERO::arnold | Can virt. reality make my desk look clean? | Thu Mar 21 1991 12:12 | 10 |
| >>> The R5 drum machine has brush snare and brush cymbal (ride) resident.
The R8 (and R8M) can use the Jazz and Jazz Brush cards that Roland
makes for them. As mentioned previously, these types of sounds (and,
in fact, the sounds on these cards) are frequently available for
samplers. For instance, I have the Jazz and Jazz Brush sounds sampled
for the Ensoniq EPS. I'll second the motion that a sampler's an
expensive proposition if all you're going to use it for is drums, though.
- John -
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| 2601.5 | | MAJTOM::ROBERT | | Fri Mar 22 1991 14:05 | 11 |
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> Sampling, expensive option?
The sound modules mentioned were in the $800-$1000 range. You can get some
samplers new, or better samplers used for that range, if not a little more.
That would provide the percussion and horns and whatever other sounds
available. As well as the option to sample whatever's missing.
True there are other limitations operating, convenience and voice wise,
but I wouldn't rule it out as too expensive.
-TR
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| 2601.6 | Not Expensive, Maybe, But Not Good for Cymbals | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | len, EMA, LKG2-2/W10, DTN 226-7556 | Fri Mar 22 1991 14:36 | 8 |
| Be forewarned that sampling cymbals is not fun. Unless you are
prepared (and able) to do a considerable amount of signal/sample
processing and editing, you will run out of memory and have noisy
or distorted samples.
len.
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| 2601.7 | Buying Sampled Sounds Gets Expensive Fast | IXION::ROST | I dreamed I was Roy Estrada | Fri Mar 22 1991 15:13 | 6 |
| The other drawbacks to samplers in general is that they are tougher to
set up and buying third party samples gets expensive fast. For synths,
it's not uncommon to get 100 patches for $30 or so; 100 samples might
cost you closer to $500.
Brian
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