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…
Tag: sampler
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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…
Roland AIRA MC-707 🧻🧻💩
Updated 11 Sept 2024 with new information about a third party editor. This is the fourth version of this article, and I have become more critical. I recently decided to…
Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 13 🧻🧻🧻
Like a fat guy running down the street chased by wolves trying not to drop his ice cream. As an owner of Komplete 9 I’ve been offered an upgrade to…
Kilohearts Phase Plant 2 🧻🧻🧻
There is something called Superbooth which seems to involve a competition for how many cables you can shove into a box full of sockets without the marbles falling down a…
Arturia V Collection 11 🧻🧻🧻
“YES BUT THIS COLLECTION GOES UP TO ELEVEN” This page covers the V Collection from version 9 onward. It is currently being refreshed.For earlier versions please go to this page…
Sampling in the 20’s
I’d like to put forward three major eras in the cultural development of digital sound sampling. You can slice it many other ways but this trio will be useful here.…
See ya later Emulator (leaving on a Z-Plane)
With the recent release of the Rossum Z-Plane Filter there’s been a renewed interest in E-Mu’s strange filter technology, once featured in the Morpheus and UltraProteus racks. Actually I wouldn’t…
AIR Structure 🧻🧻
If you use Pro Tools you probably know Structure Free. It’s the included sample player – grudgingly castrated in the way that only AVID can grudge. Yes, you can drop…
Elektron Octatrack Mk1 🧻🧻
Update August ’21 After much to-ing and fro-ing and watching of videos I went and bought an old Octatrack Mk1, even though I decided against it as my live stage…