Portablish sampler - can you help?

henrico · Post by **henrico** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:40 am

Anyone know of a sampler/sequencer that I could move about the place etc. which I could sample sounds into and also sequence from. I've been looking at the MPC1000 but I hear the pads are a bit dodgy and it looks to be made for 'makin' beats'.

Any recommendations?

itook4lefts · Post by **itook4lefts** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:49 am

henrico wrote:Anyone know of a sampler/sequencer that I could move about the place etc. which I could sample sounds into and also sequence from. I've been looking at the MPC1000 but I hear the pads are a bit dodgy and it looks to be made for 'makin' beats'.

Any recommendations?

have you scoped the new MPC 500? it takes batteries, and follows the mpc paradigm. yeah it's "for" making beats, but you don't have to use it that way. i would have got one if only they weren't so damn expensive; apparently the pads are good on them (not the same as the 1000). another option would be a secondhand korg electribe, either the ES1 (i have one of those. lo-fi sound (i forget the numebers but 32khz @ 16-bit?), but cool and cheap. one of the first bits of kit i bought that wasn't guitar related.

blank · Post by **blank** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:12 am

henrico wrote:Anyone know of a sampler/sequencer that I could move about the place etc. which I could sample sounds into and also sequence from.

Not sure about what you mean by sequence

but this little 4 tracks rock totally

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Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:39 am

Check out the small Roland samplers, I think the newest is the Sp404? Wona gear of the year award in the new issue of EM.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:47 am

henrico wrote:Anyone know of a sampler/sequencer that I could move about the place etc. which I could sample sounds into and also sequence from. I've been looking at the MPC1000 but I hear the pads are a bit dodgy and it looks to be made for 'makin' beats'.

Any recommendations?

Get a Yamaha RS7000.

The sequencer usability is second to none, its hands down the best hardware OS ever.

sampling, some internal sounds (not as bad as ppl make them out to be) flash storage and really cool sequencer.

also you can sequence live from the sequencer if you want.

i do this with my RM1X and have a blast of a time

littlepig · Post by **littlepig** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:28 pm

I had a play with a Roland Sp404 - it seemed like a good product. Buttons felt nice to play on, easy to figure out without looking at the manual.

formatk · Post by **formatk** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:07 pm

depends what kind of sequencer stuff you want to do... I've always had phrase samplers... Yamaha SU10, Akai S20, Boss SP202, ad I also had an MPC 2000XL. None of them had any sequencers that Id swear by or get annoyed with. The mpc was quite nice to use like a drum machine by switching patterns and songs though,

$tiff · Post by **$tiff** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:32 pm

This is a Ableton live forum...

If you don't have anything to contribute go somewhere else!

Go buy a stupid ass hardware sampler and drop dead ass wipe...

henrico · Post by **henrico** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:26 am

I'd want midi too and ability to sample minutes of good quality audio. over £400 is too much really so the yamaha is out. sp404 I heard had duff sound quality so maybe I'll go for the mpc500 - sell it if i get fed up with it

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