SAMPLING WITH HARDWARE - The Obvious Difference!
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The sound of hardware samplers is not only about Bit Depth and Sampling rate which can often be overstated. There's much more to it than that. This video isn't about the Roland S range. This applies to any old school hardware sampler whether they are 8, 12, or 16 Bit.
Keep vids coming Chris as very informative for ppl like me who dont have vardware.
Love my Akai S3000XL & Akai S5000 ❤ Deez oldskool samplers got da VIBE!!!
Please keep the dry audio in the videos along with the effects. Both are appreciated but its really helpful to hear what the sampler is doing to the sound on a fundamental level. Thanks for the videos!
That's not what I do because in the real world we don't make music in a dry, sterile no EQ, fx manner. There are lots of UA-camr musos who do that. I get where your coming from though
Valid point, I believe the Akai S-1000 were known for it's interpolation algorithm "8 point windowed sinc interpolation" .
Correct! Whereas the S950 actually changed its digital clock rate on each voice (like pitching digital tape).
Same with the s1100 ?
Nice, really deep bass and killer filter. I picked up an S760 a fews months back and found you do have to choose your sources carefully. The worst thing I tried to sample was bright sounds from the JP8080 as it emphasises the aliasing issues when repitched, more the fault of the JP/VA.
try to re-pitch note to low, not to hi. I mean transposition downward on hi octaves
Pad still sounded warmer on that chord example. I recorded the audio and went back and forth after adjusting the volumes and there's a nice solid low mid thickness on the Roland one that makes the pad nicer to listen to. Makes me want one now to add to the Akai and EMU.
Did you get one ?
@@saren6538 No gave up thinking about it as I have too much in my racks as it is. Plus prices have gone up for all that stuff now.
Thx for the informative Vid. Love all your random facts beside the video title too. I sampled my cheap Volca Keys (Saw, one Note) with my S-750, assigned filter and played a chord and was blown away how good it sounds. Did you always sample an octave higher than you would intented the Sound to get that "synthesized Pitch Sound"? Greetings
Interesting! 👍
Great comparison, much appreciated. Been amassing quite a collection of these old samplers since I first came across your S-770 video. What are your thoughts on the SP-700? I have heard the circuitry is a bit different than the S-7x series.
Never tried it. All I know is it can playback all the S range fromats as well as Akai S1000. My hunch is the playback circuitry is exactly the same as the S770. But why get a playback machine when you get one that samples.
@@MOOTANT1 Yeah, I think you're right. Better to get one with playback + sampling! I've got the S-750 and a few S-760s. Hopefully one day can get an S-770 for the better inputs.
@@JurassicTrance I don't notice the difference with sampling into s750/770. Maybe if I were sampling a live string section with Mics I would.
MOOTANT also excited to start working with the S-550, finally was able to track down an elusive HD5-IF SCSI interface so I can make use of SCSI2SD
Wonderfull video
Wonder if they are actually better, the S1000 had dedicated chips for pitching. Wonder if the newer stuff even uses those types of algos. I know on the S1000 it can make stuff punchier when you start to shift without sounding grainy.
can you pitch up before you sample and then pitch it back down in the sampler to exaggerate the effect?
Yes of course. The samplist can do anything they like