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Posted by hey cheggy on Sep-12-2002 17:04:

Samplers

I am becoming encreasingly aware of the need for a decent sampler. Just wondering what you think would be a better option.

A new sound card, like an m-audio delta 44 AND a soft sampler like Halion vst

OR

A hardware sampler.

I was leaning towards option 1 because the sound card would be multi-purpose filling.

Basically, I guess my real question is are soft samplers like halion as good as hardware samplers?

Posted by FuzzyGreen on Sep-12-2002 17:37:

Hardware samplers are going to be extinct soon EXCEPT for live performance use where they are more reliable then computers.

Hardware samplers are more expensive and less powerfull then software samplers.

Posted by Pjotr G on Sep-12-2002 18:35:

yes I was gonna scream the live thing

so they won't be extinct. anyways I love my hardware sampler

Posted by phasedout on Sep-12-2002 18:42:

Hey, Pjotr G, have you ever gotten around to finish working on your live performance?

Posted by Pjotr G on Sep-12-2002 21:50:

finishing it up, my live-gig is this sunday

Posted by Tom_cowan on Sep-13-2002 09:33:

Soundcard for definant, unless you want to do live stuff.

Posted by Tom_cowan on Sep-13-2002 09:34:

About the live thing tho, id say Reason is stable enough for a live performance when running on a high spec machine.

Posted by Pjotr G on Sep-13-2002 09:40:

I wouldn't dare take a computer live. It's not exactly a home environment. Lots of shaking and smoke going on. It's basically taking a risk. Sure it will probably go well. But still then, does reason give you enough live tweakability and routability? Can you pull 3 faders and hit a mute button all at the same time? Maybe with a midi controller...but you need access to all individual drum sounds, and I don't really know if you could do this in reason.

Can you mute/unmute channels (not midi channels, but "tracks" ) in reason using the keyboard?

Posted by Tom_cowan on Sep-13-2002 10:32:

Nope, good point, i stand corrected.

Posted by hey cheggy on Sep-13-2002 12:55:

Yeah, it's just for my home studio. I'm writing stuff that's kind of techno, kind of hard trance. I guess some of Picotto's stuff would be as close as you can get to what it's like.

So what sampler to use. Halion, Kontakt, or something else.

Posted by Tom_cowan on Sep-13-2002 12:58:

What about Reason?

Posted by hey cheggy on Sep-13-2002 13:15:

I can't get the sampler in reason to work.

Posted by Tom_cowan on Sep-13-2002 13:57:

Harsh, why not? What comp have you got?

Posted by xls on Sep-13-2002 17:30:

I love Halion. It's pretty much put my Yamaha A3000 out of business (anyone in Canada want to buy it?). I've never tried Kontakt though. Anyone used both Halion and Kontakt? I wouldn't mind hearing a thorough comparison...

Posted by hey cheggy on Sep-15-2002 14:07:

xls, can you export the sample after you've filtered it in Halion without running it through cubase first. Cos i can't find the button that says "export". I don't have midi controller at the moment, so i'm waiting till i get one before i read the cubase manual, hence i don't know how to use it yet.

Posted by xls on Sep-15-2002 14:25:

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Originally posted by hey cheggy
xls, can you export the sample after you've filtered it in Halion without running it through cubase first.

Not that I'm aware of. I do all my sample manipulation in other software first, then bring them into Halion...