By m56p87
Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:35 pm
Great interview with McRoberts, PSR! +100
By Coz
Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:54 pm
We need to persuade Mike to quit the library job and get back into gear making again!
By distortedtekno
Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:02 am
This was definitely the most interesting topic I've seen here in a long time.
By peeping tom
Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:48 am
mike_mcroberts wrote:vinyl_junkie_1620 wrote:Were you involved at all with their rack samplers?
I was involved with the S900, S1000, S1100, S3000 series (as well as all their products from 1987-1994). I still have the prototype S3200 sampler. When the S900 came out, there were 18 factory disks. I created disks 19-55, after which I let other people do it. I had a Mac 512 (which had 1/2 megabyte of memory, or 512 kilobytes), Sound Designer software from a new company called Digidesign, and I had to edit samples using MIDI Sample Dump commands to transfer them from the S900 to the Mac. If I was doing a cymbal, it could take 5 minutes for it to transfer. Or if I was looping a sample, I'd create the loop, wait forever for it to transfer back to the S900, only to discover the loop didn't work. Creating a looped piano sample disk then was tedious at best.
After Akai, I became a product manager at Digidesign.
i need these disks!!!
"just grab a groovy bass line and make it fit. Like smashing the square blocks into the circle shape" illgreen