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> Surprised by those specs on the SU700. I asked the same question a
couple
> of months ago elsewhere and the answer that I got was the one that I gave
i'm a little surprised too. it looks pretty cool.
> you. Is the diffence between a phrase sampler and a "real" sampler the
> polyphony then?
i think the main difference is the flexibility of what you can do
with the samples. most 'real' samplers let you use the samples
as a source for synthesis - which means anything from taking a loop
and playing it over and over by itself to having multiple samples of
piano keys and playing them at different pitches. phrase sampling
is a little less hi-tech, since you are basically only working with looped
or one shot samples. with my 'real' samplers for instance i'll make
a nice pad sound out of a few different synth tones that are sampled
in and then i can play chords or whatever straight up like that. a
phrase synth would pretty much not work for that type of thing but
it would be fine for say, recording a loop of the pads going through chords.
does anyone on here have an su700? there are a few questions
i can't really figure out from the manual (admittedly i haven't read
it too deeply since its hard to make sense of some of the stuff
without having the box there to cement the concepts in your head)
1. can you switch between playback of different songs on the fly,
without skips and twitches? this is like changing styles on the rm1x,
which works fairly smoothly for me but still screws up sometimes..
2. is it easy to just make your song a loop and work like that instead
of having to figure out which section you want to record on or what measure
to start at? i basically just want a single set of loops for a song and
want to arrange them with mutes and fades and not screw around
with recording all that stuff as midi data.. i don't want to waste a lot
of time getting my entire song to loop or having to make a million
measures of song to be able to tweak my loops with..
3. how is the midi implementation? it seems like you can only access
16 of the samples through midi notes in, is this right? is that per song
which samples get mapped? are they selected with like a bank select
or prg change or whatever? 16 samples might be enough per song for
me but i'm not sure that it would always be.. which brings up the point,
can i use it as a good master clock instead, without having to stop in
between songs or anything? ideally i would probably just be using this
box as a master to drive the rm1x clock or the other way around but
i really need to be able to run sound from both and fade from one
pattern and song to the next without bumps or glitches..
thanks,
andy
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