Cotton? Well I think I, and others who make music, made and have continued to make some
pretty good quality music with and without s760s, but I was always dealing with noisy
outputs on both of mine in a pro studio situation. The D/As were ok but not nearly as high
quality as what's available on pro audio interfaces these days, and the s760s are 16
bit. Filters in the s760 are software as are in any other software. The sound is
subjective, but Roland did an excellent job with them here. Filters in Kontakt sound
great to me and there are a lot more ways to work with them. Nonetheless, I'll check
my ears tonight for stray fabric.
I also don't miss the low res monitor output on the s-video out. I've been able
to use noise free s760 format libraries in both Kontakt and Mach 5 in DP7, although
I've run into a few sounds that don't translate well. It was a hard transition
when I gave them up, and I was hoping for a software version of the s760, but now I
wouldn't go back, mostly because of the clean, quality sound of my current system
which is based on Metric Halo I/O. Although Kontakt and several others mentioned is very
deep, if you only want to use it a a sample player, it is easy to do: load in the patch,
set Midi channel, set output, set your DAW or keyboard to match.
Frank Ferrucci
Leenalisa Music, Inc.
Music for Film and Television
http://www.ferruccimusic.com
<mailto:frank@ferruccimusic.com>
212-242-4653 New York
11-9831-0663 São Paulo
On Jul 12, 2011, at 5:37 PM, marais.de.cygnes(a)gmail.com wrote:
But the D/A's in most cases our inferior to the
S760 unless you have cotton in your ears. Also the Filter in the S760 is better as well,
and perhaps a coincidence the music being made with hardware samples was much better than
90% of the pure crap we hear now in the box.
YMMV
On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Colin Shapiro wrote:
> No software sampler sounds near as good as
the S760 either. I have 2 back in my setup.
I have to disagree with that.
Software samplers these days are incredibly powerful and they sound superb.
I use Logic's EXS24 and Kontakt and they have capabilities that the S-760 can't
even dream of.
Any practical ways to ditch the old Atari RGB monitor and go with something newer, low
cost btw ?
anything that has an s-video input. although those are harder and harder to find
You don't even need s-video.
The S-760 has a composite video output and all you need is an RCA to RCA cable
(preferably co-axial cable) and you can do straight into any TV or monitor, using Video
In. That's how I have mine set up.
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