Interesting ! The first sample I took was a pretty powerful acoustic tom. I went directly out from the Roland module into the SDX. I compared the two and it wasn't an exact clone, but damn close. I figured I'd have to mess around with the sample rates & such. As I mentioned, I'm just skimming the surface here so far. So you think it is imperative that I use a preamp as you suggest? This is valuable information to me and I really appreciate it !! Also, If I could sample some SDSV toms like Denny Carmassi's V's on Heart's Passionworks album, I'd be ecstatic !!! - Roland http://www.myspace.com/roland_brenner http://home.rr.com/zengine Hi Roland , any sampler , even best ones like Fairlights need to get a very good signal in ! "Garbage in / garbage out" ! I highly recommend to use a good preamp to do so ... a Universal Audio Solo 610 (valve version) , or even solo 110 (transistor version) for example ... I just tryed it ! you won't recognize the sounds . it gives them more air & a so nice low end. It should be another quality level in the SDX ;- ) If you haven't access to that sort of preamp it's really worthwhile renting one for 1 or 2 days ... Of course if you have access to an SSL or a Neve, it might be better, otherwise the Universal Audio will do a really great job. After the preamp , you can compress of course before to go to the SDX input...even "expand" it ... or use your plugins to sculpt your sound or optimize it... But the 1st part (& unavailable one) is the preamp ! Hope that helps Let me know ;- ) Patrice. PS by the way it's working very good with analog SDSV or 7 (& so on)... ____________________________________________________________ Visa, MasterCard, AMEX & Discover. Compare Offers & Apply Online. Click here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc1jnJFc2N6S1qwDnmRCfDAM7J5bxckV2WSIRtAmj88liH07I/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [Simmons Drums] SDX Sampling
2008-12-12 by rolandbrenner@netzero.net