Sometimes what you have to do is do what those people on the dead websites did.
Thank you, you are absolutely right!
Here we can find the full Nigel Brown's Cheetah Cheater:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001101235 ... xcont.htmlSupposedly this booklet is way better than the owners manual (i am convinced that it is, because of the other cheetah manuals i've seen.) it can provide anyone enough information on what it is and can do, and if its something
you want!
NOW first of all
WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT .!!!!
and why i like it.
When in 8 voice polyphony mode, supposedly unfiltered mode. It does something undesirable with the general sound of the thing.
it sounds kind of
digitally processed, (almost like a mod/bend of the circuit.)
This doesn't necessarily make it
low fi.. maybe think of it as if it sounds warped,
but instead it makes the sound almost sonically more interesting, compared to a warp where you loose allot of character and quality.
Sorry this is very hard to explain. But if you are into ''sp-12 low-fi grittiness??'' you'll find this a very interesting way of processing sound.
I am convinced it must be some cost efficient way to make it 8 note polyphonic.
in short it does something really weird but very interesting!!
anyways, what i can tell you about the thing??
It is basically a sample player, with some editable functions.
setting loop points is pretty precise, but don't expect to much of it.. no release looping etc.. I geus you can see it more as a ''drum sample player'' in that way!
Like the Cheetah md16 it has some velocity response curves, more like envelope presets you can choose. you can then assign a second envelope preset to the aftertough.. YES AFTERTOUGH!
Kind of wish the second envelope would respond to the release of a note.. makes more sense. Thinking about this makes me wonder if the cheetah midi keyboards have polyphonic aftertouch which is very cool!
Release time is available.
Keyboard mapping is possible but you need a instrument with midi to do this.
like on every other sampler i geus?.. also this is very basic.
You can assign more samples to one note or a range of notes, this makes crossfading possible with the envelope presets(if for some reason you want to do that
).
it reads akai s900 and s1000 disks. although it can only read the samples.. off course.
so no loop points, or other parameters.
this is about it..
IF you see one for cheap..
GET IT! Also, it has a really weird 6 pin din power supply.. it is about the size of a brick/small lunch box. the specifications are:
5volt dc -- 2amp
+ 12volt dc -- 5amp
- 12volt dc -- 5amp
if somebody needs info on the power supply, i'm willing to try to determine the pin order.
