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Date:
Sun, 31 Aug 1997 16:41:06 +0100
Subject:
Re: (idm) Aphex/Autechre/Gear question?
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quoted 17 lines The advantage of samplers is that even though computers can do> The advantage of samplers is that even though computers can do > everything and > more that samplers can do, samplers are much much more faster. Another > thing > is you don't have to worry about your hard drive filling up, > proccessing > power, and most importantly sound quality. A sound card is not > designed for > professional sampling (unless of course you buy a sound card that is, > and in > which case, you're buying a smapler in a way) not to mention, if > you're going > to do it straight computer, like RDJ does now, you've got to get a > very good > audio interface to go with that wonderful soundcard that will also > cost you > another few hundred dollars.
hmm not quite a few hundred dollars! the card which aphex uses cost about2000 UK pounds ($3200).... and god knows how much pro tools is selling for these days....... oh and my Akai is definately not faster than my PC! sure it can do stuff that i currently cant do with my PC efficiently, i.e. midi control, but functions such as timestretch and resample take twice as long. Steve /k/./F/