How Many Of You Actually (Question On Sampling)

How many of you sample in stereo? Would you be able to create the same beats that you've made if you had a mono sampler?

Im asking because Im looking for a new sampler (actually my first) and I was wondering if I'd be good with a mono sampler or if I should get a stereo sampler.

Im looking to get an EPS-16+ but it only samples in mono and I was wondering if that'll be a problem for me or not cuz if it is then I'll get the ASR-10...

If you guys have anything to say go ahead and say it. Any help you guys can give me will be nice.

Thanks

I sample everything mono, even on my MPC3000 which can sample stereo. Learned on mono samplers (MPC60, EPS), tried to sample stereo when I got the 3000, and didn't like it. IMO, in hip hop it doesn't make much sense to sample in stereo.

Good luck

Max

Mono

i sample mono but sometimes stereo too so i can choose later if i take the right or the left side or merge l+r

sampling mono is cool. but it kinda depends on whats being sampled and what effects you want to use....some effects sound way better in stereo...you can get some tight pan effects, but its not necessary

i sample stereo.

I sample mono on the SP1200 and stereo on the MPC2000xl. Most of the time I do my drums in the SP, and longer samples in the MPC. I find mono is good for drums, you can get things nice and compact and tight, and do the panning/reverb yourself on the desk. For longer samples and stereo sometimes works better but I wouldn't have a problem if I had to sample in mono on the MPC as well. You just have to be a bit more creative with panning and reverb. Oh and maybe get some auto-pan FX going on the desk, Madlib-style.

Mono.

Stereo has it's uses, but I don't need it.

Madlib does he autopanning on the 303

stereo, i don't see any reason not to. i'm never gonna have to sample anything for 12m14s plus gives me the option to seperate channels later if i wish.

Stereo for production. Mono when experimenting. No reason, don't ask me to explain.

with all the sampling time 128mb in the 1k and 512 in my 4k I don't see a reason not to sample in stereo, but I do, do the drums in mono

i usually sample my strings, panning efx and things like that in stereo, but everything else is in mono

Mainly in sterio, mono if the sample has those much needed voids in either side.

I sample in both mono and stereo. I tend to go mono if there is something in either channel that I want to isolate. I do this quite a bit cause I usually look for a lot of little sounds and riffs to sample rather than a whole 2 or 4 bar loop.

I sample in stereo if the main sounds I'm concerned with are panned centre or near centre. I find that sampling in stereo, in this case, I keep a lot of the dynamics from the original recording.

I think sampling drums mono is a good idea, because it makes the drums sound harder, flatter, and more full, which is a good thing.

Similar to no7exit. I sample in mono but if I'm sampling something with effects like strings I'll do it in stereo. Otherwise I'll just use the internal effects which automatically will put my sounds in stereo when applied.