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.
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> 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...
