I make music solely on my computer, and it works fine. I had a 486-33 up
until about a year ago, and it worked fine as long as I was using only 8-bit
samples. But I got a Pentium-100 and 16-bit samples work just fine. And as
for RAM, unless I'm doing vocals, I almost never use more than 3 megs of the
32 I've actually got. It all depends on how large the samples are.
At 09:16 PM 8/30/97 -0700, Chris &/or Rebecca wrote:
quoted 20 lines Some things to consider in the computer v. sampler debate. Computers>Some things to consider in the computer v. sampler debate. Computers
>are hard to lug around if you want to perform live. Second, you need a
>FAST computer to really take full advantage of digital audio on the
>computer-my 486PC isn't even fast enough to run most of the basic
>sequencers that include digital audio. Sound cards with sample ram are
>another issue, and because I don't have one I won't comment.
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>Just wanted to throw in a comment, because I think choosing between the
>two is NOT such an easy thing.
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>Chris
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>np. Plug Reseach Compilation
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>GamePrg. wrote:
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>> On Saturday, 30-Aug-97, PLeXitMIND@aol.com wrote [about (idm)
>> Aphex/Autechre/Gear question?]:
>> >sound editing programs, ect... My question is do these groups still use
>> >samplers or do they just load there samples directly into there
computers and
quoted 2 lines tweak them with the software available? Are there things that a sampler can>> >tweak them with the software available? Are there things that a sampler can
>> >do that computers can not? Or does a computer with the right programs
make a
quoted 17 lines sampler obselete?>> >sampler obselete?
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>> computers have been sampling sound WAY before samplers came out.
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>> You can buy samplers for Amigas, and for PC's, well all sound cards have the
>> ability to sample just as good quality as any sampler and for way less than
>> the multi-thousands of dollars that samplers cost.. I don't reckon I'll ever
>> buy a sampler (of the non-computer variety).
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