What is the point of a dedicated sampler, eg: Boss 303, S950

mr_debauch wrote:that mixer might wind up sounding like ****... who knows the quality until you test it......... but it looks worth it for 40 bucks because of the effects and knobs.. as well as the little paragraphic eqs.. that looks like you could make some cool **** on that.

It's pretty basic as I found out, its essentially an older version of this:
http://www.radioshack.com/radioshack-4- ... KnUAMXgHa8

so I'm gonna clean the faders with Deoxit and try and flip it for $50.

The 505 works great after I found a replacement adapter and is quite simple to use....I need to get a decent mixer to connect my turntable, mpc, and 505 so that I can bounce samples from the mpc to the sp, apply effects, and bounce it back. But that's down the road....Im still learning new things about my 2500 everyday

terry towelling wrote:MPCs are phrase samplers. rack mounted samplers such as the akai S series are full samplers. MPC are rather limited when it comes to playing scales and chords.

Ahhh, now this is new information to me. What do you mean by "playing scales and chords"? Like, as in taking a one-shot tone and pitching it up and down to form scales & chords?

BoyOfVirtue wrote:

terry towelling wrote:MPCs are phrase samplers. rack mounted samplers such as the akai S series are full samplers. MPC are rather limited when it comes to playing scales and chords.

Ahhh, now this is new information to me. What do you mean by "playing scales and chords"? Like, as in taking a one-shot tone and pitching it up and down to form scales & chords?

yes, but also to assign multiple samples of different pitch to the same program potentially...

If you are more familiar with DAWs... think of MPCs being more like battery, and s-series more like kontakt.

Great discussions in this thread and like many pointed out - only buy stuff you know you will use and "need".

I have a MPC3000 with a SP303 and I bought it because I wanted to add some more sound designing aspects to my beatmaking, to able to alter the samples before they go into the MPC and I have to say - I love my sp303, but Its indeed not for everyone.

Learning one machine, discovering its limits and realizing how other machines can fill in on those limits is the way to go, buying stuff just because its hyped/gearlust is not.


(I would never make beats in the SP303 standalone, I just resample)