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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
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Subject: Re: Drum Machines & Samplers - Flame
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 15:55:50 EDT
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>I'm not too familiar with the new samplers, but from what I've heard most
>people use them as recording machines.  Do they have any programmability
>besides speed of playback?  Can you do any signal processing like filtering
>phase-shifting etc. ?  If so, I'd call them synthesizers, otherwise they're
>organs.  Sorry I'm so ignorant on this subject, but I do most of my stuff
>on custom computer controlled analog synths, and haven't bothered to read
>keyboard magazines (other than this newsgroup) in the past couple of years.
>
>Paul van de Graaf 	sdcsvax!sdcc13!ee163ahj		U. C. San Diego

My interest in digital samplers stems from my interest in using synthesizers
for new types of percussion.  Have any of you're analog synths ever produced
a decent percussion instrument?  It's not easy.  I see samplers as being useful
where manipulating the actual object that originally emitted the sound is not
practical otherwise (a steamhammer for example).  Personally, I'm rather
bored of not only drum machine drumming, but real live drumming as well.
Why?  Not because the drummers are not good, or that I don't like the beat,
but because I'm tired of the conventional snare, hi-hat, toms, bass drums
etc. that 98% of all drummers use.  There are new options that samplers
provide.  Breaking glass, explosions, large machinery, etc..  There is no
end to the possibilities if you don't have to bring the actual sound
source to the stage or studio.  I agree, using an umpteen-kilo-buck
Kurzweil to simulate a $40 Casio is ridiculous if that's all you are using
it for.  Hopefully though, that isn't all they're being used for out there.

Keith Doyle
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