Sampler shootout (Akai s950, s3200XL, EMU Ultra E5000)

As some of you probably are interested in hardware samplers, this might interest you.

I did a little sampler sound comparison between some of the hardware samplers I own.
What I did was I sampled a break into them first at the original pitch. Then it was transposed by +7 semitones in Ableton Live (no warping) and transposed back by -7 in the sampler, and in the last version that was transposed by -12 in the sampler.

Read a bit more about it and hear the sounds in my blog: http://fanumusic.com/a-little-sampler-shootout/

I hope you like it (and I hope this makes more peeps get into samplers)

Kudos. Love these comparisons. S3200XL does sound amazing.

very nice. thanks.
Fanu would you do me a favor and sample that drumloop on the Emu with different settings again? I would like to hear it really sped up and tuned down again. Would be nice if you could speed it up 2 octaves in ableton, sample it at 22kHz in the Emu and then tune it down 2 ocatves.

peace

They all pretty much sounded the same on my end.
I only have one speaker anyway but all 3 of those samplers are dope.

Any advice on EQ'ing this Fanu?
https://soundcloud.com/flamprider/nob-fiddle

I'm really liking the sound of the s3200XL.

hok-2 wrote:Any advice on EQ'ing this Fanu?
https://soundcloud.com/flamprider/nob-fiddle

In mastering I'd add some warm lows, crisp highs and compress it slightly.