Mornin' This ain't the Oscars, but i just wanted to say that all the advice from all of you on the list about PCs, SCSI and samplers was an absolute godsend. This may be normal stuff with some of you, but this has just transformed my potential for making tunes (just need more free time dammit - 50hr working weeks suck)...
A friend and I set up my PC last night with 128MB more RAM (only �18 - so much faster now than just 64) and fitted an Iwill 2930c SCSI controller card too (thanks James @ Flex for the recommendation). Its the same set up as yours and its very cool that it all works as it should. It was pretty painless, tho luckily he's a server engineer, which helps i suppose. Now I have the PC able to send big chunky processed .aiff samples (at last, big pads, film dialogue and strings) using Wavesurgeon to my A3000v2 over SCSI which are then mapped straight to the keys in seconds. The possibilities of the Wavesurgeon Advanced software are fantastic. Every break/vocal/sound FX can be transformed into proper killers even before they reach the sampler using Cool Edit Pro and Wave surgeon to mangle it all. No more being restricted by floppy disks. Plus if i get a MIDI merge box, i can send AND receive samples both ways... To have each individual hit and the remainder of a particular break following afterwards (a la Scope @Streetbeats - mucho thanks for the internal affairs advice) on separate keys in about 20 minutes is great. Cos once they're in the sampler, it still leaves me all the options to filter and pitch all the individual hits separately (Koffi Annan on Creative Source style amens or like on Breakage - Here Come the Drums). Also to have the end parts of vocals/FX trailing like on all the old Full Cycle tunes using the loop function and the release part on the volume ASDR ...very cool - i never worked out how they did that until now. Plus i can route individual parts of the breaks to different channels for EQ and compressors etc. Heavy kicks and snappy snares... I don't know how i survived without it. Mind you I haven't had Windows trash the ZIP disk yet, so i may be very unhappy if that happens. We experimented last night using a test disk to check the order in which everything has to be turned on and it seemed happiest when the PC is turned on with the ZIP drive on already and then the sampler was turned on last. Mind you, I restarted the PC with all the equipment on and connected and that didn't kill it either, so it seems quite stable. Plus I can also use a Windows format disk in the ZIP to back up my PC too from time to time. Excellent stuff. I can't wait for the weekend to play... Many thanx Dan DISCLAIMER: The Information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or ommision taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. This E-mail and any attachments are believed to be free from viruses but it is your responsibility to carry out all necessary virus checks and Vertase Ltd. accepts no liability in connection therewith. --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
