s950 or 1000

Lookin at getting a s950 or s1000... Wonderin how i would get the sample from the 950 to my 2000(xl). My 2000 has MCD not floppy... would i use the 8 outs on the 950? Something about 12 bit drums..... so cruchy.I also heard good things about the 1000 though. i like the sampler in the 2000 now, but the 950 something about intrests me. I've had my 2000 for a few months, finaly switched to hardware..love that sh_t (on FL for like 5 years), so im still tryin to learn about this hardware[/b]

u'd use midi to trigger the sounds on the 950/1000.

as far as the 950 goes, its mostly propaganda--imo

did you know that with the 2000xl you can resample anything down from 16 bit to 12 or 8 bit?

if you only want the s950/s1000 for 12bit drums, you could save yourself some money by using your the resample feature and still get the same effect. The only downside is that it takes a LONG time.

i have a s900 and i love it. to me its a better sampler than the mpc i have a mpc 2000xl to

I got a s950 and love it, too. Isnt that expesive too

jonestown massacre wrote:did you know that with the 2000xl you can resample anything down from 16 bit to 12 or 8 bit?

if you only want the s950/s1000 for 12bit drums, you could save yourself some money by using your the resample feature and still get the same effect. The only downside is that it takes a LONG time.

I was also intrested in all the control you have over your sample (if what i was reading is right) like in depth attack, decay, cross fade looping, all that good stuff

i used the s1000 as well and found that the s950 is much easier to use. to each his own tho.

I was also intrested in all the control you have over your sample (if what i was reading is right) like in depth attack, decay, cross fade looping, all that good stuff

Again all features in the xl..... Im not trying to hate, but Im sayin, you have those features already, why buy another piece of hardware that will essentially do the same thing as what you already use?

to each his own tho.

You have to admit though, the editing on S series samplers is much deeper than on the MPC.

jonestown massacre wrote:did you know that with the 2000xl you can resample anything down from 16 bit to 12 or 8 bit?

if you only want the s950/s1000 for 12bit drums, you could save yourself some money by using your the resample feature and still get the same effect. The only downside is that it takes a LONG time.

That's virtual 12bit downsampling. In the essence, the 2kxl is playing back a 16bit downgraded to bad quality-like 12bit sample. It's no 12bit crunch at all. Otherwise, you don't even need a 2kxl to do it, just use Audition and downgrade everything to 8bit. Still, you'll end up with a sample sounding like a 64kbps mp3. And you don't want that.

Except the above, the 12bit feature on the 2kxl is not always applicable as some samples will get too much **** up and almost unlistenable. Otherwise, everybody would use that feature and nobody would buy any 950's any more. Why you think exactly the opposite keeps on happening?

true, however with the right filtering/resonance and some trial and error with the conversion freq. (Hz) you can get the sound you are looking for. Remember as well, the sampler in the xl is fairly transparent: meaning you get out what you put in. Use drum layering and play around with the "virtual downsampling" and you can really get the same effect as the 950/1000. Like I said before the only problem with that is the time spent. If you have more money than time, go for it. But to achieve the sound that you are looking for, the xl will do the trick. My 2 cents