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Conference napalm::commusic_v1

Title:* * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * *
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Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 29 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2852
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2741.0. "Using Home Computers As Samplers" by RGB::ROST (I Had A Torrid Affair With Geraldo) Mon Oct 07 1991 11:41

    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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2741.1AmigaPIANST::JANZENLove looks not with the eyesMon Oct 07 1991 11:5719
	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
2741.2KERNEL::IMBIERSKITue Oct 08 1991 09:488
     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
2741.3MANTHN::EDDWe could be heroes...Tue Oct 08 1991 10:304
    I do that fairly often. Sample a chord, loop it (don't have to be
    perfect) and then dig out the notes...
    
    Edd
2741.4Pretty SneakyELESYS::JASNIEWSKIThis time forever!Tue Oct 08 1991 18:368
    
    	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
2741.5Computer as that samplerFASDER::AHERBAl is the *first* nameSun Oct 27 1991 01:553
    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?
    
2741.6ULTRA::BURGESSMad Man across the waterMon Oct 28 1991 10:2618
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