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Hi Jaybird, all the rest, I'm not familiar with the S-770, but I assume it's very similar to a S-760, perhaps with more voices / memory. These machines are somewhat similar to my beloved W-30, but I bet it only has one or two filters, instead of (up to self oscillating) resonant (80's DIGITAL!! but 'analogue feel') filters for all voices like the W-30 (16 voices, ultra flexible seperate 8-point envelopes for filter cut-off and volume) - which also has 8 outputs, a powerful sequencer and a very responsive and expressive keyboard. The only significant limitation of the W-30: you have 32 locations to place (pieces of) your samples at the same time, and you have only 14.4 s @ 30kHz / 28.8 s @ 15kHz sampling time. The latter is NO problem, because the former IS, at leat sometimes, when you DON'T use it as if it was a drum computer that already has the basic distortion, eq, reverb, compression etc. on all sounds. But sometimes, for instance when you sample just one measure of a breakbeat, cut in in 16 parts, do that twice for a stereo sound and you're already out of spare locations - with some 13 seconds memory left... I avoid this by using some 5 or 6 seperate outputs for 'snippets' of mono breakbeat that I mix down with different panning, EQ and FX for all outputs to get a 'real' stereo mix, so I have 16 other samples for which I can then use relatively much sampling time. You can also solve the 'problem' by buying another W-30... I did - well, I made my collaborator buy one. In short: the main positive distinguishing feature of a S-770 is probably that it's much smaller ;-) I've posted similar praise to the W-30 before - it's a classic machine that has spawned so many classic tunes, many people use(d) it (Prodigy's demo: just two (yes, he solved the problem too...) W-30's plus some FX) but most won't admit it. They keep the secret well... but I'll let you guys in on it: this one totally fits the description 'crunchy old ass sampler with filters' - and you can pick 'em up cheap nowadays, too! Cheers, Sjoerd At 12:12 21-5-02 -0400, you wrote: from TB-303 resources mailing list -------[ http://www.tb-303.org ] ---------------------- WoW this is turning into a pretty heated discussion. I agree with everything everyone has said so far. Sjoerd, Do you think the Roland s-770 Sampler is good?.. I want a crunchy old ass sampler with filters for my vocals. www.thumpintunes.com -------[ http://www.tb-303.org ] ---------------------- Subscribe & unsubscribe there : http://www.tb-303.org/
