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Re: [elektron] Machinedrum Userwave: World's most expensive sampler?

2005-04-20 by Andy Tarpinian

On 4/19/05 10:11 PM, "finite_sf" wrote:

> 
> 
> A friend just pointed me to this site.
> 
> http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/04/machinedrum-userwave-worlds-most.html
> 
>  He asked me if I was going to spend the cash on it, as if it was a
> waste of money.
> 
>  True, if you look at it from the view point that it is just 2mb of
> sample space, then it is the worlds most expensive sampler. However,
> when you look at what you can do with 2mb of space along with the
> sound engine, and elektron user interface then it is enticing.

2mb of space is a lot! if you are talking old school samplers ;) for 12-bit
drums you don't need a lot of space. I hope it sounds good in the end, my
wish is that it's like there is an EMU sp-12 in the MD, then I will buy one.

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