Can it do Mozart tho
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Brilliant! Also…Go Straya…
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We have a winner.
Unless there was a dinosaur that could sample and playback anything it hears too - then that would be the pioneer of sampling
Then again, birds are descended from dinosaurs
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Perhaps the question is really about creating appropriate hardware that integrates seamlessly with a really good software sampler.
remember phatmatik pro, wonder if that will still work on a Mac?
best sampler and best sampling beat machine/groovebox are two different things though…
whomever pioneered spliced tape based music is who done it… can’t remember dudes name
What do you have in mind OBOLUS ? There’s an awful lot to what you’re suggesting.
How about porting HISE, an open source framework (VST or standalone) for sample based instruments, put on the ELK Audio OS ?
Probably a fair amount of work in particular putting together a hardware UI to fit the functions you create, and specifics on the sampler parts.
I didn’t know about HISE before, it looks like it might be a good place to start. Are there other open source samplers ?
Open source is one way to do it, but I think the results would always be substandard for those of us that are used to using typical sampler hardware.
If you’re a software developer, you need to find a hardware maker that cares enough about your software to make hardware that honors its abilities and strengths.
Most of the hardware sample makers out there already have their own software programmers. So there is a set of financial reasons behind what we actually get.
It took some time and struggles for Mendellian geneticists to become fully integrated with the Darwinists. But they eventually found a way.
No matter how it happens, we need knobs, sliders, buttons, touchscreens, and joysticks. Then, you need a separate version that has a keyboard for those who prefer a keyboard.
But I would make separate hardware for each and every different software sampler out there that people want to make hardware for. I wouldn’t make a universal one.
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Not saying it’s perfect, or even anything like you might want, nor that i knew anything about this (other than with spidey sense), but AKAI may be the September product.
Or maybe it’s some other company !
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who’s the most well known ensoniq eps 16+/asr 10 user and how good of a keyboardist are they actually?.. I hope they don’t F up their current development track by putting out a keyboard
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Alchemist!
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It’ll just be the same MPC software as used in the One/Live/X with all the same controls on the top, with a keyboard grafted on for playing samples. I highly doubt it’ll do anything the others can’t do.
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yep, and he doesn’t give a F about playing a keyboard either…
I hope Akai understands that Roland fantom users and mpc users are different kind of users… Now days some people might search out an ensoniq board but when they were popularized it was because of necessity, everybody I know that rocked an ensoniq did so because they couldn’t get what they really wanted and they made dope stuff with their ensoniqs… I myself went from eps-16+ to asr10 and both black and red asrX boxes… and anything can make good music but my point is that a freaking akai sampling keyboard is not a request of any weighty mathematical note, not the kind of numbers that would put one on the assembly line and akai has a lot of work to do that has been urgently requested already to get done.
f that
you’re probably right, I’m just pissed off because I was already pissed off about those damn plugins, and I see that they are going where it makes sense to go with this… but I don’t like it.
They should’ve gone full DAW in a box imo by giving it more power and the ability to load third-party VSTs - that would’ve been killer. Having said that, every time I watch a video on modern MPCs I’m put off by the UI and amount of menu diving 
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if they would have executed it well I could have gelled with that, but I would have loved for them to strip all that crap out of it completely and just made a very nuanced auto sampler… that is about 3 times better than the one we’ve got which is pretty good for sketching on the go
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Hey, there are plenty of people asking for a sampler keyboard! I’ll take 61 keys over 16 pads any day.
maybe so, but it’s a different vibe altogether, what is it about a 61 key version that you prefer over sending midi out of the 61 key you got right now into your beat machine?
is it just the convenience I can understand that?