powercord wrote:well said. The linn 900 is great too, I have the first one ever made, but upgraded with forat mods...too bad sampling is a **** on it...i just think if you want something practical then even the 60 isnt your best choice...not like the 440 is but i think its a cooler machine. I can get em for around $1400. You can sample 30 seconds with 512k memory, so thats not an issue. Def, better then a 1200 hands down. I didnt mean to create madd beeef, just wanted to shout out to anyone that uses a 440.
$1400 is higher than the highest Ive seen. Most cats have trouble selling them at $1000 because not many want them.
I don;t know if I would say it was better than a 1200, certainly gives you a lot more features like tunable filters and adjustable sample rate, real time, level pan and pitch control, and I think some serious envelope controls for your sound but it's been a while so i'm not sure. But the SP has some things on it like the slider interface and it's incredible sound, so it is a toss up.
You have Linn 9000 serial number 1 ?? Wow, now that's cool.
I am borrowing a partially functioning one from a friend which doesn't have the major forat mods, just a few of the early sampling ones and it sounds cool and has a really great panel, probably the best pads ever and such a nice angle on them. It would be so much better if it could load kits instead of just one at a time. Great feel to that machine. I actually bought a fine young cannibals tape once just cuz I knew they used the 9000 all over their album. Is there any other reason to buy a FYC album?
If you hav a studio 440 handy you should post some clips of beats you've done just on it, even just demo beats to hear what the sampler sounds like. Sampler wise it does seem to kill both the 60 and 1200, but once you put in sequencers, interfaces and reliability it becomes a tougher choice.
If anyone wants the sound of one of these you can get a prophet 2000 or 2002 which are non drum machine.