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I think it's going to be on the Fantom-S also :)



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Andre Lewis" <andrel@s...> wrote:
> That's what I really wat to know, what's missing from the 505 to 
the 909
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ravi Ivan Sharma [mailto:noision1@h...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:27 PM
> To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Roland vs. E-mu Sounds
> 
> 
> Call it variphrase lite or whatever you want, it does timestretch 
on the fly
> (acid like) any samples that are part of a pattern. I think this 
is pretty
> powerful in a live situation so you can have patterns containing 
samples and
> then sync to any band using the tap tempo button. This is the joy 
of a good
> groovebox, but until the 909 it was impossible to do with samples. 
As far as I
> know, you can have samples on all tracks of a pattern if you want.
> 
> IMO that is the best thing about the 909. Unfortunately they left 
out megamix
> and removed other features like accessible delay controls for 
tracks which were
> good live tools on the MC909.
> 
> Ravi
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Aaron Eppolito
>   To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:24 PM
>   Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Roland vs. E-mu Sounds
> 
> 
>   --- "studio_6512 <studio6512@c...>" wrote:
>   > My buddy has the MC-909, I plan on getting it as a part of the
>   > production studio, just because the variphrase sampler is 
awesome.
> 
>   I played with the 909 at NAMM, and as far as I can tell, it 
doesn't
>   have variphrase.  The demo guys were pretty clueless when I 
asked him
>   "How many voices of Variphrase does it do?"  I got all sorts of 
answers
>   from "All of them" to "Uh, well you have 16 tracks..." to "Well, 
this
>   turntable emulation thing can slow..."
> 
>   After really working on it for a while with one of the Roland 
guys, it
>   seems that the 909's "Variphrase-like" ability comes from being 
able to
>   chop up a sample into smaller looped samples and playing them 
with an
>   arpeggiator thing.  For the factory sounds, this seemed to happen
>   automatically.  We couldn't figure out how to do it with 
something we
>   sampled.
> 
>   In any case, the sound quality was what you'd expect from 
slowing down
>   a vocal (for example) where each syllable was looped: pretty 
stuttery.
>   It sounded nothing like their Variphrase technology.  Their 
brochure
>   also doesn't mention Variphrase anywhere in it either.  The only 
thing
>   it does mention is the ability to timestretch *out of realtime*.
> 
>   -Aaron
> 
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