| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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Last night I got ahold of a public domain diskette for my ST that had
a digitized version of a Mike Oldfield tune ("Foreign Affair") on it.
It's just a snippet that's been looped but the sound was pretty
impressive considering it was the ST making the noise, not some $2000
sampler.
I also recently (courtesy of Dave Robinson) heard some sampled music
being played on an Amiga.
These experiences have gotten me interested in adding some sampling
hardware to my ST. I've seen a few units around, including Digisound
and Replay. The idea would be a cheap way to add some limited sampling
capbilities to my setup for cheap (the most expensive sampling packages
I've seen are only about $200, some are under $100). The intent is
mostly to do sound effects and speech, rather than instruments, etc.
I'd like to hear from people who have used such systems (for *any*
computer), and their thoughts about the usefulness of them.
Brian
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| 2741.1 | Amiga | PIANST::JANZEN | Love looks not with the eyes | Mon Oct 07 1991 10:57 | 19 |
I bought a cheap sampler for the Amiga. I used it for a few days and not since, for about 6 months. If I had had it during a period in which I transcribed several cuts from records, It would have been great (can edit about 3-4 minutes at once). If my live shows weren't all talk and a little background music, if I were still using sound effects, maybe, but the sound quality is iffy (8 bits linear). My criterion for new purchases is, will the equipment make more efficient some activity I'm already during some less efficient way? In this case, I broke the rule, except by time warp, because a sampler would have been great when I was making sound effects and transcribing, but I don't do those things any more. Some software allows you to move samples from the computer to a sampling keyboard (after sampling and editing them); I don't have such a keyboard and so wouldn't use that. What are you doing now that would become easier with a computer sampler? TOm | |||||
| 2741.2 | KERNEL::IMBIERSKI | Tue Oct 08 1991 08:48 | 8 | ||
I don't have a sampler, but I bet they're great for transcribing. The
most difficult bit of transcribing music (for me) is getting the chords
down, as they frequently go past too quickly for my ears to work out
anything more than the root note and whether it's major or minor. With
a sampler I could "freeze" a single chord and listen to it until I
worked out all the tones it contains!
Tony I
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| 2741.3 | MANTHN::EDD | We could be heroes... | Tue Oct 08 1991 09:30 | 4 | |
I do that fairly often. Sample a chord, loop it (don't have to be
perfect) and then dig out the notes...
Edd
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| 2741.4 | Pretty Sneaky | ELESYS::JASNIEWSKI | This time forever! | Tue Oct 08 1991 17:36 | 8 |
This guy in our group rolled his own. He's made a talking car
alarm, ala "neighborhood commando", from scratch and wanted to replace
the compu-voice with his own voice. So he records himself onto floppy
disk, bring that into work and blasts it into ROM, which he reads
out when the alarm goes off.
Joe
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| 2741.5 | Computer as that sampler | FASDER::AHERB | Al is the *first* name | Sun Oct 27 1991 00:55 | 3 |
I have been trying to find a program that will let me play amiga
samples from my KAwai K1.. ANybody know of such a program?
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| 2741.6 | ULTRA::BURGESS | Mad Man across the water | Mon Oct 28 1991 08:26 | 18 | |
re <<< Note 2741.5 by FASDER::AHERB "Al is the *first* name" >>> > -< Computer as that sampler >- > I have been trying to find a program that will let me play amiga > samples from my KAwai K1.. ANybody know of such a program? Yes. I don't know the name of it but it is produced by a company called (something like) OXXI AEGIS (sp ?) Reg | |||||