KORG microSAMPLER

well that depends, could you use an I-Pod as a replacement for a memory card? if so, that would be ingenious!

this keyboard is gonna do well the only thing the coulda added was a row of 4 drum pads and it woulda been ownership

but be interesting to see what roland come with sp505 ex or some shit or neva know akia might do a sampling keyboard

I cant see anything an ipod could dock to on this thing.
Well it could be so easy. Just another USB port to connect a USB Stick (or USB HD) as a storage device. I guess a USB Stick is not that outdated in a few years. So why does noone do this? <- serious question. Maybe it's not that easy to implement this. Let me know

peace

Those aren't iPod docks, they're indentations in the plastic case. Some marketing guy said, "Hey! The iPod is popular right? Let's say these holes here are for sampling your iPod!". Much better than an iPod would be to put your high-resolution portable recorder there. But they're just holes. You could use it as a place to spit out your chewed bubble-gum. There's two of them, I'm thinking you could make posts that fit perfectly in there, mount some little speakers, and plug them into the headphones output.

Jamon wrote:Those aren't iPod docks, they're indentations in the plastic case. Some marketing guy said, "Hey! The iPod is popular right? Let's say these holes here are for sampling your iPod!". Much better than an iPod would be to put your high-resolution portable recorder there. But they're just holes. You could use it as a place to spit out your chewed bubble-gum. There's two of them, I'm thinking you could make posts that fit perfectly in there, mount some little speakers, and plug them into the headphones output.

So true. Yeah would have made more impact with me personally if they would have put a HD portable recorder there instead but yeah it's all marketing hype.

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From what I can tell from forum posts and videos, most people use the MPC to record sounds, chop them, and arrange them into patterns in realtime. Some people get into MIDI, but look how many come here asking why they can't hear the sound from their MIDI.

For most beatmakers using an MPC, why wouldn't they ditch that and use this microSAMPLER instead? It looks way easier. Those realtime auto-sampling modes look way faster and funner than manually recording, chopping, assigning in the MPC. This is an instrument.

Look how fast you can sample and have sounds trimmed and assigned to keys. There's no waveform display, or advanced editing, but most people don't need that. You'll stumble upon awesome sounds faster using this smooth workflow even without all the manual control.

If you wanted to sample a drum kit how long would it take with an MPC? With this you can turn a knob, push a button, play a kick, hat, snare, and it's instantly setup for you, ready to play. With the 48kHz sound files this won't play nice with the MPC.

With it being so much easier, it'll slowly grab your attention until you find yourself barely even turning on the MPC anymore. Maybe. There aren't that many details yet. Look at what happened with the Beat Thang. There's probably some catches no one's talking about yet.

why the need to compare this to the burger kangz sh!t?... korg has been around for years and has maintained a solid reputation. those other dudes... well, let's not even get started again...

The more I see the more I like it!!

It looks fun, and useful for some things. That last video posted shows the 'auto next' mode, where it auto-splits the sample into bars based on BPM. The 'key gate' mode wasn't shown but seems useful. I think what you can do is select it, play a key on a synth, hit the same key on the microSAMPLER, and repeat for all the keys, then you're done and can play the sampled version of the synth.

This realtime workflow stuff is what I wish JJ OS would bring to the MPC. They've got all those same functions, they just need to program some macro-wizards to put it together into realtime flow. Like when you go to record mode you could select some sub-modes, "Auto-threshold". You choose the threshold start and stop, then start playing sounds and it auto-assigns one to each pad.

Shortcuts, speed, efficiency, realtime playing, it's all those little things that make or break a tool. This microSAMPLER is bringing some fresh ideas, I hope others follow.

Jamon wrote:

From what I can tell from forum posts and videos, most people use the MPC to record sounds, chop them, and arrange them into patterns in realtime. Some people get into MIDI, but look how many come here asking why they can't hear the sound from their MIDI.

For most beatmakers using an MPC, why wouldn't they ditch that and use this microSAMPLER instead? It looks way easier. Those realtime auto-sampling modes look way faster and funner than manually recording, chopping, assigning in the MPC. This is an instrument.

Look how fast you can sample and have sounds trimmed and assigned to keys. There's no waveform display, or advanced editing, but most people don't need that. You'll stumble upon awesome sounds faster using this smooth workflow even without all the manual control.

If you wanted to sample a drum kit how long would it take with an MPC? With this you can turn a knob, push a button, play a kick, hat, snare, and it's instantly setup for you, ready to play. With the 48kHz sound files this won't play nice with the MPC.

With it being so much easier, it'll slowly grab your attention until you find yourself barely even turning on the MPC anymore. Maybe. There aren't that many details yet. Look at what happened with the Beat Thang. There's probably some catches no one's talking about yet.

yeah i can see that some peeps like the complexity or the amount of work they need to put in to make a beat it adds to the sense of achievement and they like the process to be as obscure as possible so it seems mystical and hard to do hence adding to there own sense of being part of an elite breed of people that make beats.

in the early 90's late 80's the process of doing beats had more allure cos the mystery and unfound breaks but no the game is wide open and dude to the craft being exposed dudes will buy multiple samplers to make shit complex and hard to do.

me i respect the origins but i wanna make shit easy as possible so i can get my ideas down quick even if someone gets the same equipment they may not choose the same sounds or have the same musical vision so its all good.

jjos on mp1k is cool but sometimes it can be slightly laborious to set all the samples up to play in the right way and to trim shit down so u can play it, so will see how it goes.

the comparisson with beat thang is valid due to the fact they are both portable samples and both aim to simplfy the process of getting ur ideas down quick

Korg seems to be leading the way in new creative, affordable ideas!
More power to them But damn!! Whatsup with the Linn Drum? I put my money on that damn thing all summer long and still nothing

Dj Pound wrote:Korg seems to be leading the way in new creative, affordable ideas!
More power to them But damn!! Whatsup with the Linn Drum? I put my money on that damn thing all summer long and still nothing

Wait a couple of more years

cool vid- the call in the middle had me laughin'