By peterpiper
Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:36 pm
Talking about Roland....I quote myself:
DivShare File - Roland S10 demo.mp3
One other thing I really love about the S10 is the way it handles loops. You set a fixed looplength (lets say exactly 1 bar) and now be able to go thru the whole sample "searchin" for loops you would hardly find with another method.
Bad thing about it: no doubt: quickdisk and only 4 samples to use.
I also had the W30. The display on this had a really loud tone that drove me crazy so I sold it before really get into the machine. I regret that. Sould have simply change the display.
peace
This is an 8min sounddemo of the Roland S10 keyboard sampler.
The focus here is on the inputstage and converter since it seems that the s10 has a real "thru the converter" monitor (while many other samplers monitor directly after the rec gain knob for example).
The benefit is that you don't need to sample into the machine but just run the signal thru it in real time to get coloaration of the ampstage and the converter. IDK for sure about this so anyone who has insight in the shematics: please leave a message.
This demo is made because someone on gearslutz ask what I know about the topic.
The input stage of the S10 has 3 different gain settings on the back of the machine (lo,mid,hi) and also a rec level fader on the front. You can directly plug a microphone in to sample. It seem that it has a limiter before the converter so the sound won't get digital clipping but will be limited and then get analog distortion.
The samplerate on this sampler can be set to either 15kHz or 30kHz. And as soon as the rec menu is selected you can hear the input signal and the change in sound while switching betweeen the two samplerates.
In this demo I played around a lot with switching between samplerates and rec gain.
To be able to A/B the signals I recorded the original signal on the hard left while the right side is the signal that came from the S10 (of course, in real time). You can either use 2 mono channels on a mixer to A/B this
or load the file into your DAW/AudioEditor, split it and A/B it from there.
You shouldn't listen to both sides on the same time cause this won't show you really whats goin on and the levels are sometimes very different (caused by the rec gain fader)
have fun!
DivShare File - Roland S10 demo.mp3
One other thing I really love about the S10 is the way it handles loops. You set a fixed looplength (lets say exactly 1 bar) and now be able to go thru the whole sample "searchin" for loops you would hardly find with another method.
Bad thing about it: no doubt: quickdisk and only 4 samples to use.
I also had the W30. The display on this had a really loud tone that drove me crazy so I sold it before really get into the machine. I regret that. Sould have simply change the display.
peace
well maybe not but it has a cool raw sound.
