Sequential circuits samplers

One of the weird things mine would do is not be able to save or load 
data properly, if i made several copies of sections of a sample--for 
instance, if i sampled a few seconds of a breakbeat from a record, 
then chopped it up in the sampler into its constituent parts (by 
setting start and end points for the first drum tone then copying the 
sample and setting the start and end of that one so it was the second 
drum tone in the break, and so on...).  then i could stick all the 
parts back into one patch, all layed out on my keyboard/sequencer in 
order, and at that point delete all the duplicates.    but when i'd 
try to save this kind of patch, it would apparently think it was 
using way more memory than it actually was (since each drum tone was 
basically coming from the same initial sample, and all the duplicates 
had been erased).  so it would still work, i could still save and 
load it, but it would get progressively screwier every time i'd make 
adjustments and save it, until after awhile it'd start freezing up on 
me.  those were the only times data would never be correctly verified 
after loading.  i figured it was just the tricky sort of method i was 
using to edit samples that was messing with the sampler and causing 
errors.

i agree though, it's a great sounding machine, has really nice 
modulation capabilities.  i do however, dislike the filter on it, 
because its the kind of filter that thins out the audio below the 
resonance peak, more and more, the higher the resonance is..  so 
anything being filtered with any fair amount of resonance ends up 
much lower in overall volume than everything else coming out of the 
sampler.  a lot of filters are like that though i guess, so i 
shouldn't complain. 





 


--- In prophet2000@yahoogroups.com, "Brigman, Corley" 
<corley.brigman@i...> wrote:
> >well, that's certainly intriguing..  i've actually opened my p3k 
up 
> >to have a look inside, and the revisions are in fact A or B and 
even 
> >C for some boards, apparently.  mine is revision B, and this i 
guess 
> >is a main determining factor for whether or not it can be upgraded 
to 
> >a 4 MB version. 
> 
> yes, if you have a rev B the upgrade from 2M to 4M is 'trivial',
> very simple to do. the key is the I-627 chip, it must say 'I-627B'.
> 
> > however, i was using os 3.0b and did have a few 
> >crashes with the OS, basically freezing up on me when i'd do 
things a 
> >particular way, so i'm not sure what the deal is.  
> 
> the P3K OS is, in a sense, beta. and doesn't have very good error
> recovery. meaning: as long as you don't do anything wrong, it always
> worked fine for me. but it won't try to catch if you do something
> wrong, and i've gotten weird results (including crashes) when i 
tried
> to do something 'illegal'; it's been a while, but for instance once
> a sample had its sloop set to the entire sample (0...length of 
sample),
> and the rloop set off. i forgot and went to set up the rloop, and 
when
> i tried to change the start/end, i got really strange results, and 
no
> error messages. but as long as you're careful, i didn't have any 
problems.
> 
> there are some weirdnesses i discovered though, that i'm not sure if
> they were just my machine or not. one particularly galling one was 
that
> if you are in mode 3, and assign pitchbend to pitch like normal, it 
works
> fine on all 8 voices. but if you go to mode 4 (multi, i think 
that's right?),
> the pitchbend only works on voice 1 (even if say voices 1-3 were 
all assigned
> to the same midi channel, only voice 1 would respond to pitchbend, 
so it wasn't
> like 'only the first multi part' or anything like that). 
> 
> but it's still an incredible sounding machine; i wish i had mine 
back.
> i'm not sure i'm not still too lazy to really use it ;) but it is
> the best sounding sampler i've heard so far...
> 
> corley brigman
> intel corp.
> corley.brigman@i...