Roland AIRA TR8S v.2.5 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
It took me a while to pick up the TR8S. I already have the TR8 and felt it would be greedy to duplicate that purchase. And then because I already…
Tag: sampler
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E-Mu Proteus 2000 🧻🧻🧻
Here comes the new bass same as the old bass. In the beginning was the 1981 Emulator which was cheaper than the Fairlight, but eventually too expensive against the AKAI.…
Izotope Iris 2 🧻🧻💩
File under Where Are They Today? I don’t actually remember there ever being an Iris 1, but I recall v2 coming out with much fanfare. It included a decent sample…
Ensoniq ASR-10m 🧻🧻🧻🧻
The Homebake music festival 1998. What are these boxes? From the bottom up: ~ A rubber pig mask.~ ASR-10m Sampler. God bless it. It was called ETHEL 6.~ Super VHS…
Roland AIRA SP404 Mk2. 🧻🧻🧻🧻
The Eternal Quest: Floating somewhere in the realm of Platonic Ideals is the ultimate sampling tool to realise the sounds I hear in my head. I’ve invested in a whole…
Cherry Audio Originals
This page will hold Cherry Audio’s original (and much more interesting) software titles. It is in progress – please stay tuned. Their replica instruments can be found here. Sines 🧻🧻🧻💩…
GForce ImpOSCar3, M-Tron Pro, Orchestron
Orchestron 🧻🧻 Let’s just start with the Orchestron. A shitty optical disc based sample playback machine that went nowhere EXCEPT that Kraftwerk bought one and lathered it all over their…
[MPC] AIR Fabric XL and OPx-4 🧻🧻🧻💩
When I first reviewed the MPC Live I saw it as a drum machine with melodic features tucked under the surface. AKAI have steadily brought melody to the fore culminating…
AKAI MPC Part 2.
In which I actually used the damn thing as intended. (Yes, Donald Duck Hat, just keep moving.) I’ve previously written about the MPC as if it was an old white…
Borderlands 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Borderlands is the ultimate iPad instrument – a melding of hardware and software. It takes every virtue of the pad – swiping and pinching and zooming – and forms them…