Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "endlessnessisticman"
<endlessnessisticman@y...> wrote:
> > My point is.. I love the sound of my MD and my MnM but samples are 
> such an integral part 
> > of the music making process that it should be a priority for 
> Elektron to design a truly 
> > intuitive hardware sampler/sequencer............
> 
> I have to agree here.  I have an ms2000 and a Virus along with my 
> coveted MD.  What I need now is a decent sampler.  As people have 
> pointed out before there needs to be a sampler with some good sound 
> modulation and the only way to do this now is through software.  
> That's good enough for me.  If Elektron came out with a sampler that 
> could compete with the soft samplers they'd truly have something 
> special, not to say from what I hear about the MnM isn't.  I already 
> have the synths I need.  I regret selling my mpc a couple years ago.  
> There is alot you can do with current samplers that I've yet to 
> explore.  It takes alot of time.

I am not sure! I think that a developing a hardwaresampler could be a
high risc for elektron. There is allready realy usefull stuff on the
market, look at the things Korg done (?EMX?), i know a lot of users
which very happy with this sampler/sequencer. I also owning a
MPC2000XL, but don't use very often at the moment. Fact is, we all
owning Computers and got softwaresampler, which work very well. Since
there are Samplers like Giga, Halion, Kontakt..., there is not a big
market for hardwaresamplers. I see a market for hardwaresequencers!
Let's have look at Spectralis (raditec), this is a combined
analogstyle sequencer with one analog synth and filter,virtualanalog
engine and the possibilty for samples. Look at least to me like
something you want!
And this is the problem here, there is allready a lot of stuff on the
market. I bought a P3 from Collin Fraser some weeks ago, this a realy
a HAMMER_POWER_Sequencer, so where is the problem send midi to the
software-sampler?
Maybe for live usage a computer on stage is not the savest way, for
this case i still have my A3000.
At least i bought the Sid, MD and MnM because they are not using
samples ;-) I am a synth-freak....
Stefan