best sound sampler

mjnurney · 19 November 2016, 22:21

what was the best quality sound sampler on the Amiga?

i have used technosound and its pretty awful

Jope · 20 November 2016, 08:53

They're all pretty terrible. The GVP DSS8 (or 8+) is probably among the best.

Amiga1992 · 20 November 2016, 11:57

Is there anything to be done to make them better? Components are simple and probably easy to hack.

What exactly makes them so terrible?

Jope · 20 November 2016, 13:02

Cheap random components, not enough isolation from bus noise and so on.

I guess no-one's expecting cd quality via the parallel port though. :-)

daxb · 20 November 2016, 13:33

My TST2 Sampler works since over 20 years with good quality for a 8 bit device. My experiences is that quality depends on the source. The bad overall quality is in my opinion the amount of only 8 bits and I guess you can`t get much more quality with it. If you want better go for 16 bit soundcard.

Mad-Matt · 20 November 2016, 13:45

I have the original technosound sampler and don't remember it sounding particularly bad for what it was. cracnk up the samplerate and it would record nice samples in the limites of 8bit. only a few seconds of stereo would fit in memory though. The vocoder options offered some fun toy features to play with. Creating samples from cd source and making loops in octamed was fun for a time as well.

Amiga1992 · 20 November 2016, 20:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jope

Cheap random components, not enough isolation from bus noise and so on.

I guess no-one's expecting cd quality via the parallel port though. :-)

Maybe I should replace the components of my sampler with good ones.

Also I guess having a controllable low pass filter on input to reduce noise wouldn't hurt (the Ensoniq Mirage puts this feature to good use)

I think a super good quality sampler would be very welcomed.

CoCan · 23 November 2016, 23:31

I was always quite happy with my TST2 as well, i remember it got good reviews at the time and I tested it recently and still works perfectly.

Spent many hours making tunes with that thing.

glenn · 28 November 2016, 10:50

Best wold probably be using a soundcard instead, for example the Repulse ?

(I was SO close buying one of those but never did it..)

19 November 2016, 22:21	#1
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20 November 2016, 08:53	#2
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	They're all pretty terrible. The GVP DSS8 (or 8+) is probably among the best.

20 November 2016, 11:57	#3
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Is there anything to be done to make them better? Components are simple and probably easy to hack. What exactly makes them so terrible?

20 November 2016, 13:02	#4
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Cheap random components, not enough isolation from bus noise and so on. I guess no-one's expecting cd quality via the parallel port though. :-)

20 November 2016, 13:33	#5
daxb Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 3,303	My TST2 Sampler works since over 20 years with good quality for a 8 bit device. My experiences is that quality depends on the source. The bad overall quality is in my opinion the amount of only 8 bits and I guess you can`t get much more quality with it. If you want better go for 16 bit soundcard.

20 November 2016, 13:45	#6
Mad-Matt Longplayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lincoln / UK Age: 44 Posts: 1,846	I have the original technosound sampler and don't remember it sounding particularly bad for what it was. cracnk up the samplerate and it would record nice samples in the limites of 8bit. only a few seconds of stereo would fit in memory though. The vocoder options offered some fun toy features to play with. Creating samples from cd source and making loops in octamed was fun for a time as well.

23 November 2016, 23:31	#8
CoCan Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: UK Posts: 42	I was always quite happy with my TST2 as well, i remember it got good reviews at the time and I tested it recently and still works perfectly. Spent many hours making tunes with that thing.

28 November 2016, 10:50	#9
glenn Repulsive Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: stockholm Sweden Posts: 89	Best wold probably be using a soundcard instead, for example the Repulse ? (I was SO close buying one of those but never did it..)

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