I also still enjoy hardware effects and samplers using 8bit & 12bit from the early '80's like the Ensoniq Mirage. But even better because of it's editablity was tha Akai S612.
That was a real FuzzBox.
I sold my ancient PrimeTime and I miss it. It had the best tails for a delay, also 10/12bit.
Choosing samplerates
Re: Choosing samplerates
that's why I still prefer the original A16 with it's 18/16bit converters - for sure not the most transparent thing on earth... but sounds good to my ears 
Re: Choosing samplerates
imho one should have at least some acoustic 'picture' in mind when adding up sources to a track.
Only high end sound generators (synths, drum samples, instrument libs) from the same origin (usually) sounds boring to my ears.
I even have reserved a stereo pair to route back from SFP to a Rocktron Intellifex (delays, reverb, chorus) because it has a different sound print than Scope FX.
When I heard the unit for the first time I immediately fell in love with that tone.
Why should I tweak if there's something that provides it right out of the box ?
One of my basses has a rather dirty tone by nature, no need for ultra-transparency on that side.
I try to balance quality with character somehow.
The bass has an excellent (clean sound) preamp btw - when I find the time, I'll risk a channel or two of the A16 by connecting the preamp out directly to the converters, avoiding the internal opamps.
It's a transformer balanced thing, so no direct harm to expected... well at least that's my guess...
cheers, Tom
Only high end sound generators (synths, drum samples, instrument libs) from the same origin (usually) sounds boring to my ears.
I even have reserved a stereo pair to route back from SFP to a Rocktron Intellifex (delays, reverb, chorus) because it has a different sound print than Scope FX.
When I heard the unit for the first time I immediately fell in love with that tone.
Why should I tweak if there's something that provides it right out of the box ?
One of my basses has a rather dirty tone by nature, no need for ultra-transparency on that side.
I try to balance quality with character somehow.
The bass has an excellent (clean sound) preamp btw - when I find the time, I'll risk a channel or two of the A16 by connecting the preamp out directly to the converters, avoiding the internal opamps.
It's a transformer balanced thing, so no direct harm to expected... well at least that's my guess...
cheers, Tom