Author: FZer0 (---.openlink.com.br)
Date: 03-02-01 16:18
Hi, i'm posting this because the site says the author is here, so...
Let me explain how my stuff works... i have a home studio with an Athlon TBird 900 + SB Live (w/hacked APS drivers), an Yamaha DJX keyboard and an Akai MPC2000. A while a go i rewired all the gear to use the MPC as the central piece of the studio, doing all the sequencing and leaving the PC free to run softsynths and record audio.
Why? Well, the MPC's sequencer behaves much like a tracker and it's fun to use, as opposed to your cakewalk/cubase/logic. But this is a matter of taste anyway.
Getting back on the track: the MPC is good sampler, but only for loops and drums. It doesn't do chromatic tuning or key-spans, so i use the APS-Live on-board sampler for that. Problem is: to set up the MIDI channels on the APS-Live, i have to use a sequencer. So i load up that huge memory-hogging Cakewalk *only* to set up the MIDI channels and load the proper .SF2 files to the soundcard, leaving all te remaining control to the MPC. I think this is *quite* stupid.
VSampler can create multis (Akai-speech for programs with multiple MIDI channels) and edit samples, but it uses the main processor to calculate and play the sounds, which introduces a latency factor (even in an Athlon 900). The only solution to that would be using VSampler as a front-end to the most popular hardware-sampler-on-a-PCI-card, the SB Live (and all the others that can play SF2/2.1). In fact, not only SBLive/SF2, but also EWS 64, Hoontech and the like. Why not let VSampler manage and edit samples directly the soundcard memory anyway? This way you could have:
1) A substitute for Vienna, that f*cking ugly and complicated sample-bank editor.
2) A way to load multis and sample-banks to use with external sequencers without any perceptible latency.
3) A cool way to turn a computer into a live instrument. :)
This could even be a separate version, like VSampler/SF or something... :)
So, what you think?
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FZer0
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