I'm wondering what sampler I should get. I'm looking for something like Reason's NN-XT. I tried Halion and really didn't like it. Which one do guys prefer?
TVG
Aug-07-2005 21:22
Icone
In Dreams...
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leuven, Belgium
You mean a vst based sampler? I guess Kontakt or Kompakt from Native Instruments are good choices.
Didn't like Halion myself either
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Icone / Van Gelder / Blue Manta / The Elemental
Kontakt is pretty wicked. Intakt also. Both by Native.
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Aug-08-2005 00:53
fabio_trevez
tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Mexico City
hardware
Aug-08-2005 01:25
mzvirbulis
"Boom Boom"
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Ballarat, Victoria
sorry to say but sofware all the way!!!!!
hardware is only effective in live situations really, with what you can do with software these days it is great. plus cost factor, you can buy NI products cheaper than hardware with just as many features and quality.
I personally use reason3.0 and use the nn-xt to sample, its a good sampler. but not sure how it compares to others.
cheers,
MATTZ
Last edited by mzvirbulis on Aug-08-2005 at 04:50
Aug-08-2005 04:40
retrobyte
a.k.a. Christopher Norman
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Michigan, USA
for production, software sampling has become the option for most producers. it's so much cheaper than a lot of hardware samplers and it's improved in leaps and bounds recently. Native Instruments Kontakt and Ableton Live's Simpler are my current samplers of choice - there's quite a bit of flexibility in both.
Music is as universal to people as breathing. We've probably been at it since before we even started talking. Immaging two cavemen smashing away at a peace of flint to make a spearhead. It wouldn't take long for them to learn te synchronise the sound. And there you have it, the words first percussive band.
Music has survived wars, famines, the plague and many other things and has evolved with man across many cultures. Dance music is just the next step in the evolutionary chain. My guess is that it will probably be with us untill we are extinced.
