A new project I am working on requires some weird tones and hits. I'm wondering if anyone here has worked with samplers before and could provide me in the right direction of one.
I'm not too worried about complexity, something i could plug into my computer and upload sounds. Doesn't have to be some crazy Akai piece of work
Well it sounds like the thing you are trying to use is called the SP-303, 404, 404sx. They are all about the same price as a boutique pedal makers prices if ya find one used. I often use my 404 in noise projcets and such as the effects are great. Honestly that with some weird tones, field recordings, and a cheap looper connected to it you can continually stack in different ways and create a whole ambient drone set.
sergiomunoz74 wrote:Well it sounds like the thing you are trying to use is called the SP-303, 404, 404sx. They are all about the same price as a boutique pedal makers prices if ya find one used. I often use my 404 in noise projcets and such as the effects are great. Honestly that with some weird tones, field recordings, and a cheap looper connected to it you can continually stack in different ways and create a whole ambient drone set.
Just checked out the sp-303 and 404. might have to weigh between those two. You hit it right on the head man, thanks.
If you're not using it for the onboard effects the 404 will be easier to find (and they might actually be in production now, I think, haven't checked up on it).
If you're not using it for the onboard effects the 404 will be easier to find (and they might actually be in production now, I think, haven't checked up on it).
I had an sp-303 and although the compression was much better, mine had some strange shit going on that didn't allow me to put my loops in there. So I couldn't put drones on it too easily since it was hard to remove the click from the controls. The effects were better and the fact that you could resample and bounce what you are playing externally or internally over another pad made it worth having by itself but I in the end decided to sell the 303 and keep my 404. Also 404 has a nicer tone than the 404sx although it's not as ugly as my 404 haha.
oh also you can't underestimate the awesomeness of battery powered items.
If you're not using it for the onboard effects the 404 will be easier to find (and they might actually be in production now, I think, haven't checked up on it).
That's what i'm finding, though the sp303 is pretty common on ebay it looks like.
And they seem to be failry priced, and from what i can tell they aren't much different in function.
They aren't super different but the differences are pretty pronounced once you know what the variables do (kind of like how a guitar is a guitar is a guitar until it isn't, you know?).
It's kind of a bitch to take a warped sound and upload it to your computer, though, in the sense that you have to record the 303 playing the sample, you can't take the raw wav file off of it (as far as I know).
