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Sampling Query

  • 18-02-2010 3:59pm
    #1
    calvin clean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭


    Was wondering if anyone can help here. looking to get a footswitch and a sampler for djing off 1 deck and a mixer but dont want to use software or owt digital, any recommendations? Would i need a sequencer etc?


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  • #2
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Tell us more - you've got a deck ? and a mixer? and you want to have other tracks on a sampler, you can mix in?

    Different hardware samplers can be very different from each other.


  • #3
    calvin clean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭calvin clean


    One to lift tracks off the deck and play em i guess k


  • #4
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    A sample may not be the thing for you. They're more for making music than playing it back. They do look cooler than laptops and if you have a few, with their flashing lights it does look a lot cooler.

    Samplers though have much shorter memories - you're much more constrained for space.

    If it's whole tracks you'd be better off with a laptop and some software.

    If you really want one - get a Boss SP 505 or a Roland SP 555 (Roland and boss are the same company - the samplers are different versions of the same thing)

    There are DJs who use the SP 555 - you can do cool stuff with it, if you've an idea what you're doing.


  • #5
    calvin clean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭calvin clean


    Cheers k, dont own a computer apart from an oul desktop so dont fancy draggin it around the place!


  • #6
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    calvin clean wrote: »
    One to lift tracks off the deck and play em i guess k

    Do some of the higher end mixers not have that build in?


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  • #7
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    calvin clean wrote: »
    Cheers k, dont own a computer apart from an oul desktop so dont fancy draggin it around the place!

    Look into getting a laptop - the guys here could probably give you good advice on that (I'd like to know too). For what you want to do, you may not need much. There's pretty decent laptops you can pick up very cheaply or even second hand.


  • #8
    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    studiorat wrote: »
    Do some of the higher end mixers not have that build in?

    Yeah, they have flaky little gimmicky samplers - they're pretty useless. The pioneer CD/MP3 decks are more or less the standard.

    Not everyone can afford these things - they're pretty expensive. I think you're looking at the best part of 2 grand or more to kit yourself out with Pioneers and a decent mixer and monitors/speakers.


  • #9
    calvin clean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭calvin clean


    Got a 3 channel Rane Empath, outdates the one with serato built into it so dont think it has. Checked out the Roland thing, might get away with it!


  • #10
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    you can do it with the pioneer EFX thingy.


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