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From: li63sgy@sdcc7.UUCP (glenn little)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Sampling machines
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 00:13:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 00:13:48 1985
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	I have a few more questions concerning sampling machines.
	(I suspect that soon all my questions will be moot due to
	what seems like an impending explosion in the sampling area,
	but...)
	I read recently that Mellotron (yes, they of the choir, and
	so on) was working on a sampling machine.  I read this in
	the April issue of Keyboard magazine.  The blurb was short,
	and was a little confusing.  They mentioned something about
	interfacing with existing equipment, and they mentioned a
	price tag of, if I remember correctly, 2000 to 3000 dollars.

	Does anyone have any more information on this, either its
	capabilities, cost, approximate release time, etc?

	Or how about the new Akai rack-mount sampler.  Is this any
	good?  I know nothing at all about it, other than that it
	exists.  

	Are there others in the works that I don't know about?

	Oh, (sorry), one more thing.  There has been a little
	discussion of sampling a choir recently.  My thanks to the
	person who wrote the article about Mellotrons.  But one
	thing he said is something I've been wondering about for
	awhile, although I am not yet quite so resigned about it:
	that sampling machines as yet cannot capture the richness of
	the Mellotron (choir in particular... I guess it is a
	complex sound).  Has anyone had experience trying to capture
	that sound (good or bad)?  What are the problems involved?


				Thanks,

				Glenn Little