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by The Carpet Cleaner » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:45 am
Hardware samplers are like hardware synth, guitars, even shakers !
You can do EVERYTHING quite correctly in the box.
If you are broke, or want to be 100% efficient, you'll probably want to just use Live (suite) without anything else.
But this is true in theory. After months of practice, you just want to discover and try new way of doing stuff.
You can go for 1 year doing right click > slice to sample. It works very well. Or you can open Sampler, and toy around. Then few months later when you feel tired of doing the same thing again and again, you want to try new things again... and it never ends.
There is something else as well that I'm personnaly experiences.
I remember 2 years ago when I was starting to produce, I wanted to control everything. I wanted lots and lots and lots of possibilities, lots of control, infinite control. And now that I feel more confident with my skills, I kind of know what to do, I now what I need, I'm looking for fun. Less "learning", more fun. Less control, more toying around with something. I'm fed up using the mouse and trying all the different combinason of butons/faders of a soft synth or a sampler and see if this sounds better, or this thing, or this thing again. That really kills the fun.
I bought Maschine recently (1 or 2 months ago), and it's my first gear beside a keyboard. And I found those habits that I had when I was playing guitar when I was a kid. Just "playing". You load something, and you play, and you record. If the tool is well made, even though you're playing, the result will be good. I think that's why for example Roland SP series are popular, because it's very simple but the effect are okay and you play with it and get something cool.
And seriously if the hardware is good (and maschine feels like it's a peice of hardware even though it's not), you can go very fast, doing fun things while the quality is still here. This is where the important point is and where I give you my answer to the initial question of this thread.
If you want to buy an hardware sampler of synth or whatever, just make sure it's a good peice of hardware, that works well and is efficient. Don't buy a toy that is fun to play with for just 5 minutes. Good hardware sampler seems like toys but you can actually have fun and discover things from it for a long period of time.
Right now for example, I have Live and maschine and a keyboard. I don't need anything else.
But when I visit my friend and play with his gears, I want them as well.
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