Message 10/21
Date: 09-Dec-00 @ 10:18 PM -
RE: Sample your analogs!
I never use my samplers,i figured i would use them as Wavetable synthesisers with my own samples as the waveforms,but i never got around to trying.
It seems i bought the wrong machine in my haste,i really needed something with more midi control over the envelopes lfos and filters etc.
So that i could control it all with my knob box in real time but the Esi range does not cut the mustard here i am afraid.
A costly mistake as i now have an Esi-32 fully expanded and an Esi-2000 fully expanded and also 6GB of custom racked hardrive and Zip and CDrom waiting for something to store and play.
Still i surpose at some future date i can do a spot of resampling from one to the other,since one can layer sounds and then sample and layer and sample etc.
Simple square/triangle/sinus/sawtooth that dont vary over time would make for easy waveforms as beginning sounds but my theory was that since i have a whole bunch of modular with a variety of waveshapers/waveprocessors i could generate complex waveshapes cut them up and paste them together but the sweeping through the sample wavetable that i had created seemed impossible with the sampler that i have.