Thanks to all / A sampler problem
2004-10-11 by Michael C Lesko
Hi All, Thanks again for the great advice! Had one more question, really a problem that's come up this past weekend at my bands practice. My apologies if this is off topic here but playing sequences straight from my SD-1 works just great. A little slow from the disk but fast enough not to be a problem. My problem is that so many of the dance songs we do have pretty heavy use of samples. Currently I midi an EMU ESI-32 through my SD-1 but it loads so slow and can't hardly hold any great amount of samples in it's memory. My question is, on an extremely tight budget, is there any sampler you can suggest where I can have quick - or at least quicker access to pretty big samples? It just can't cost a fortune. Lot's of great stuff out there that is just impossible to get because I can't afford it. By the way here's a little info on me. http://www.geocities.com/michaelclesko I'm an artist by trade and if ever I can repay the kindness of so many on this board, I'd gladly help at no charge. About all I can do for anyone is artwork but that comes in handy sometimes with logos, promo stuff, etc. Let me know if I can ever help. Thanks! Michael ----- Original Message -----
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From: "Harry" <ebbrecords@...> To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: Sequencing at gigs > > > Michael, > There are lightning systems (or rather lighting controllers) that > accept MIDI controls. It is actually quite fun to program lights via > MIDI, because it is as easy as hitting the corresponding key on the > keyboard that syncs with the desired lighting can. It is a matter of > MIDI note numbers. You read the MIDI layout of the controller (or > set them up how you want to on the controller), and hit the > corresponding note on the keyboard that transmits that particular > MIDI note number. > The same applies to doing effects and other program changes. In my > setup in California when I was doing much solo shows than I currently > do, I used my Ensoniq SQ2 to send program changes to my Alesus > MIDIVerb II. When there was a particular solo that I wanted a lot of > delay on, I would hit that track button while in preet mode and it > would send a program change (on the MIDI channel assigned to the > MIDIVerb II), to the efx unit and change presets to accomodate the > new efx program. When I went back to the original sound, I simply > hit that button and it sent the original program back to the Alesis. > It is all a matter of numbers and channels. > Sometimes, you have more devices than channels as well (when you > combine a very track sequence with the assigned device MIDI channels, > you might have more than 16 things going at once), and what I did was > have a MIDI mapper to send out on two or more MIDI outputs at any > given time, so I could accomodate all of that. Additionally, I also > had so many keyboards on stage that I would have up to 3 boards with > the ability to send MIDI out to other boards and devices. What that > required was a programmable MIDI patch bay. On any given song, I > would be able to control any device from up to 3 other devices (one > at a time of course), and those changes were sent to the MIDI patch > bay via program # from the master keyboard, which was always in > control. > The downside to the Roland sequencer, is that I can only transmit > on 16 channels all the time, so I have to be judicious in which board > is controlling what. > Since I now have the VFX (the SQ2 mainly stays in the studio now), > I will probably use that to send changes to everything else and have > the VFX get its program changes from the Roland. I might have to get > another patch bay and start using it live again to make it happen, > but that is the price of total control. > > Thank you, > > Harry Ebbeson III > Ebbeson Management Group > www.geocities.com/ebbrecords > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >