Category: Samplers

What’s Roger Linn’s Coolest ‘Vaporware’ Gear Design?

Saturday Synth Porn: Pioneering electronic instrument designer Roger Linn this week released a collection of renderings for instrument designs that never made it into production. Above, Linn’s LinnDrum controller – a drum-oriented control surface for use with computers. While these designs, for various reasons, never made it into production, Linn’s rejected designs manage to be cooler than most… Read More What’s Roger Linn’s Coolest ‘Vaporware’ Gear Design?

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Roland Intros SPD-SX Sampling Pad

  Roland today introduced the SPD-SX Sampling Pad, a multi-pad percussion instrument with 2 GB of onboard sampling memory and three powerful effects engines. Features: Unique sampling-pad concept — the only instrument of its kind in the world 2 GB internal memory, enabling approximately 360 minutes of sampling (mono) without requiring external memory Nine velocity-sensitive… Read More Roland Intros SPD-SX Sampling Pad

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Vako Orchestron Demo Videos

This series of videos demonstrates the Vako Orchestron sample playback keyboard, which was an improved version of the Mattel Optigan optical disc playback sampler. via Optigan.com, which is making new sound discs for both the Optigan and Orchestron.

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