Well, I know it shouldn't matter but, Autechre have been using one for quite a while now. if you take a look at this picture:
http://mercury.spaceports.com/~re/ae/im/live1.jpg , you can see that it's an ASR-10 that he's playing. I'm not saying that you should rush out and buy what ever Ae use but it's definitely a good indication that you will be able to make some great sounds with it. That is of course, permitting that you have
enough talent ; ). For a while it was there main instrument. Anyway, I have an Ensoniq EPS16+ that is pretty close in features to the ASR-10 and I really love it. There are a couple of thing that it can do that other samplers can't, like modulating a loop point or points with any modulator (like that mod wheel for ex.) or being able to step through the samples in chucks or scrub the wave in real-time. Those sounds are pretty
common on Ae's latter recordings. That sound of a looped sample that speeds up and slows down with out changing pitch is one of those things. Also, if you get the wave boy effects disks (the effect engine is open), you'll be able to do granular synthesis, pitch modulation, resonant filters and all sorts of really cool stuff. And, there all modulatable I strongly recommend getting them. Another really great feature is resampleing
through the effects processor. You can even resample while the sequencer is playing. That's a great way to build your own loops and layer effects. There are a couple of short comings that you should know about: The ram maxis out at 16 megs, only 20 voices, no resonance on the filters (fixed with wave boy effects), There in so software that can get and send samples through SCSI for it, and it's only 8 part Multi-timbral. If you
can live with that, it's a truly great sampler. Actually, those things are not as bad as they sound. IDM stuff tends to be minimal so 20 voices is just fine. 16 megs is actually a lot of sample time. I have 16 megs in my Kurzweil and I haven't really run out of room for samples yet. they again, I don't really make really long samples of strings and stuff. My EPS is even worse and I still use is all the time.
-=GB=-
severina wrote:
quoted 10 lines I'm thinking about getting a used Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler. From all the reviews I'
> I'm thinking about getting a used Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler. From all the reviews I've read it's pretty damn nice. How does it rate from the idm'ers here? I mainly use software stuff midi controlled by my korg dw-8000 right now (if you want a sample of my stuff check out http://www.3am.org/~severina and under my pictures there's 3 tracks i've done.. the last one is a pure noise track. and gnostalgia is the newest addition)..
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> Anyhow back to Ensoniq ASR-10's.. I heard the used price can be anywhere from like 1200-1500 on these things.. i might have a chance to get one a nice chunk cheaper. Should I attack that?.. or is there something else in say an 800-900 price range that I should go for instead?
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> Thanks,
> Michelle
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