emusonacid!

I've got a load of breaks stored as Wavs on Windows formatted Zip and was wondering whether to just load these into the Emu via a SCSI Zip drive or actually sample them in by playing them from my laptop.

Will I get extra warmth if I sample them in or is it not worth the hassle?

Thanks.

I don't know about this.. but here is something that I noticed. I am not sure if it's my imagination, but I think it's worth mentioning.

I was playing the amen break using midi trigs in cubase. It didn't sound so tight. You know? I am not sure why... but I decided to resample internally the amen break. I was looking for something.. probably to see if there was a way I could get the break tighter sounding.

I found the resample sounded actually quite different from when it was being trigged by midi. It sounded... better.

I don't know. I might play with this idea. It defies logic I think, but maybe what I heard was actually real. Who knows.

I think if you load the breaks in your emu using the scsi, it will probably sound the same as if you sampled them again from your computer. But remember, when you sample from your computer, you going through your computers AD converters. If you just load them via zip, then they go through the emu's AD converters, which makes them sound the way they do. I suppose the difference would be there. but whatever.

snh

Thanks snh!

Like you said, playing the breaks into the sampler from the computer would use the D/A converters in my laptop's USB M-Audio card...I dunno.

I may try it and see what the results are like.

Cheers

sampleandhold wrote:I don't know about this.. but here is something that I noticed. I am not sure if it's my imagination, but I think it's worth mentioning.

I was playing the amen break using midi trigs in cubase. It didn't sound so tight. You know? I am not sure why... but I decided to resample internally the amen break. I was looking for something.. probably to see if there was a way I could get the break tighter sounding.

I found the resample sounded actually quite different from when it was being trigged by midi. It sounded... better.

I don't know. I might play with this idea. It defies logic I think, but maybe what I heard was actually real. Who knows.

I think if you load the breaks in your emu using the scsi, it will probably sound the same as if you sampled them again from your computer. But remember, when you sample from your computer, you going through your computers AD converters. If you just load them via zip, then they go through the emu's AD converters, which makes them sound the way they do. I suppose the difference would be there. but whatever.

snh

isn?t the zip drive connected via scsi too ?
why should there be two different ways for the same input ?
i know its emu ... ;-) but eh ?

erm...Maybe I'm missing something but Sampleandhold said that there WOULDN'T be a difference