Neat trick for making a whole song from seven sounds on one disc.
2007-11-12 by eric_swhite
At one point, many years ago, I had only this sampler, and an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer. The P2k had been expanded by me to 256k. I separated seven sounds to different mapped sections of a single keyboard layout. There were usually six short sounds; bass drum, snare, hihat, and various synth stabs from old recordings I had made. The final sound was a long piece(relative to the others), that was a section of an extended drone from an old song, or other source. I could put together a simple techno song from these elements. I think it worked really well, and was a pseudo-multi-timbral set-up.The only difference was it all happened on one midi channel. I could save the whole thing to the disk, except for the sequencer timing information.I would steal isolated drum hits from recordings that others had made. I felt a little bad, but I believed they were just processing drum machines I couldn't afford. My guilt quickly faded. I hope this helps anyone wondering how to make a whole song on the P2k, without even multi-tracking. ESW