Re: [sgroup] Some luck

a couple of old roland sampling tips: after a lot of testing, i ended up not using the s550 sampling function that much. i got much better results sampling at a higher rate in an external app (lots of options for free out there) and downsampling and transferring the sample to the s550. (not as easy to do now, but still possible. i believe stefano daino still has dsp-quattro going on the mac that handles roland samples.) there's a well know trick to maximizing your sample memory: since the roland system breaks the samples into chunks of memory, to most efficiently use the memory you can chain samples together to fill the chunk and then use sample pointers to access the individual samples. i know this sounds confusing - i'm not explaining it well and it's been about 15 years since i last did it - but think of it like this: you've got 20 samples of a piano, instead of twenty different samples you have one long sample with twenty notes strung together one after the other. the roland allows you to use sample start and end pointers when you're mapping, so you can "point" the notemap to just that section of the sample. if you read the manual you'll see the memory allocation limitations i mentioned. i was able to significantly increase my sample set using this trick. cheers b On Mar 11, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Robbie Dude wrote: