hardware v software samplers

Komplex · Post by **Komplex** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:29 pm

lunabass wrote:
Oscar F wrote: Are You Serious !!!!!!!!!
Ever played and EMU EIII Keyboard or used an E6400 etc etc ....
Way better sound quality IMHO.
The Yamaha A4000/5000 samplers sounded damn fine too as did the last line of Akai "S" Series Samplers also.
I'd pit one of the last generation EMU samplers against Sampler+Racks anyday of the week myself.
So what is "it" about the sound quality that makes it better than a soft sampler? It cant be a converter comparison can it? Or are you talking about its filters...this I understand. Or is it the quality of the pitch transposition?

i think u just have to use them side by side to hear and feel the differences... not something u can easily describe by talking about it...

retrodisko · Post by **retrodisko** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:29 pm

I still have an Ensoniq ASR-10 Sampler I love it. If you know how to use it at full you bever stop using and reusing in many forms, Even i just used sometimes to process sound. Its a great gear

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:07 pm

Still using my Akai S3200XL. I can't live without the filters and the FX board - particularly the ringmod and frequency shifter. For bottom end stuff, kicks/basses etc it rules! Also it's nice to play something on stage that absolutely won't crash no matter how hard it play/abuse it. 12 years of gigging and nary a hitch!

Can't say the same for the S6000 I used for a while - Akai totally dropped the ball on that one, it took a year after release to get even moderately stable and it f&%$d our show twice!

(Of course, if anyone want to buy my S6000 its going verry cheap....)

hardware v software samplers

do you use a hardware sampler as part of your setup with Live?