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http://www.vemberaudio.com/products.php

This is a new sampler for creative sampling purposes - great-sounding sample playback engine, start/loop start/loop length modulation, very interesting filters and FX. Nicely structured sampler, minimalist and straightforward GUI.

This thing is not intended for library-oriented sampler users - it's for people who like to create new sounds out of existing ones by mangling them realtime. This is the best software sampler I've seen.. I highly recommend trying the demo (fully functional except for 2-note polyphony).

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system requirements
* Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or newer.

sorry

I think the author plans an OSX version.. not sure when it will appear though. I suppose it doesn't help when I say this thing sounds great.. the sample playback algorithm is extremely good. I have a feeling the coder wanted to get a good underlying engine in place before starting to add the inevitable mountain of feature requests.

Functionality over style. Creamware should look at this. I could care less about software loooking 3D and sexy.

hmm... good design supports the functionality!

What I meant to say is that the STS series looks very nice but making it a copy of the ancient Akai was a big mistake. At least with the Akai it is very easy to push the buttons but with the STS and the tiny interface (why can't it be full screen?) it is tedious for me. I also wonder why the functions are so limited.

I simply do not understand the idea of making exact copies of other synthesizer when a computer can do so much more. That just seems idiotic to me.

Different tools for different people... a lot of people are comfortable with the Akai way of doing things - it was the industry standard sampler for many years after all.

Anything radical or groundbreaking is a potential risk - the musical instrument market is very small, and there's not always money to be made in niche products like sound-mangling samplers etc.

Having said that, I was a very happy bunny when I saw this new sampler.. it's what I've wanted for a very long time. I'm falling more and more in love with it with every moment I spend with it

I think it's great that someone took a risk on this - after all there would be no progress made if people didn't take risks. It remains to be seen whether the guy will sell many copies - that was one of the main reasons I told you all about it here... as opposed to Native Instruments, Steinberg etc, this guy really does deserve some publicity for what is a great product!

Right but had I only waited. I like what they said on the web page. The sampler is an instrument not just a sample player. That is progress.

I can see that Creamware put a lot of time and effort into the modular but hardly any into the sts series.

My advice is to download the demo and check it out. It's actually a really cool demo limitation - fully functional except for a 2 note poly limitation (I really really hope he doesn't lose out on potential sales because of this). The interface makes it really easy and fun to mangle sounds.. you will be hooked (you have been warned)

Interesting. I'll try it. I'll probably buy it next year.

On 2004-12-14 15:31, braincell wrote:
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I can see that Creamware put a lot of time and effort into the modular but hardly any into the sts series.

In a certain way this is natural, there is not a particular benefit in using sharc dsp power to host a device that uses mainly cpu and ram to perform it's tasks, many people prefer native samplers anyway, I would rather like a better integration of samples in the modular as something that can differentiate Scope from native samplers...

I'm not a great user of samplers, so for me the sts series is more than enough, but I use very very much modular patches that integrate samples, usually in a way where they are not recognizable anymore.

That is an interesting idea. A keygroup module which has multiple outputs and layers for velocity switching. It could be viable but it would be more geekish.

On 2004-12-14 17:33, braincell wrote:
That is an interesting idea. A keygroup module which has multiple outputs and layers for velocity switching. It could be viable but it would be more geekish.

Maybe it takes some space, but actually you can use "Gate Switcher" modules tu use key or/and vel values to switch between sample osc's. Mmmm a lot of space for a complex device...

And then you have to drag the samples in one at a time and assign them. It sounds very tedious.