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Erba
Published on 02/08/08 at 12:58
For the time a killer for the price of the Akai samplers, with a keyboard and more!
This is my first sampler ... And I always!
Bought new in France has its output (more than 10,000 bullets, a chasm in his time).
Separate outputs, making SCSI, MIDI In / Out / Thru, Audio In & Control Pedal (mono)
2 sound banks (A & B) of 7.2 sec and 14.4 @ 30khz x2 x2 sec @ 15kHz.
Uses an OS on disk (hard-drive the loading ...)
8 separate outputs (I never used because more than to buy a mixer in a time ...).
61 keys, 16 notes polyphony, sound compatibility with the series "S" Roland (eg, S50, S550, S330 sequencer ,...), type "MC".
I put a note because I'm nostalgic for that in the late 80's was the top for me.
UTILIZATION
As for the use I will be brief (quoi-que. ..).
As it was my first machine, I had no choice. I was back on!
I juggled between my cops & the W-30 ...
It's like all machines it needs to be done ...
Being new at this, I admit that the manual was a great help!
I wish to clarify that I am not a musician in (yes I admit ... LOL)
And I quickly sampled breakbeats and sounds weird old vinyl I had on hand.
What was great was to have a graphical representation of the waveform on a big LCD! I triturated already sounds a bit like in Soundforge!
SOUNDS
Ah! The sounds! A pure delight (always in the context of the time! Ed)!
Disks supplied with the machine were demos that had one simple purpose of showing the capabilities of the W-30 (I remember a piano that was eating all the memory but calling to truth).
There are no effects in the W-30!
But there is the filter (cutoff + reso), which is something crazy! With a particular grain original (I think it's typical to the series "S" of Roland.).
Keyboard sensitive to the bike and the after of course!
We can make "patches" to deploy the samples on the keyboard.
For the record I remember that I blocked the keys with small boxes to play continuous loops (because no sustain pedal)! And if it sounded good I put it all in sequence.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it long enough, until the advent of PC's.
Yep. The PC made me abandon the W-30. Thanks to an infinite memory and "multitrackers" (genre: Acid, Live, etc ...), better suited to my requirements.
I was very matter Roland machines (Juno-2, D-20, R-8 and Mc-303).
As I had no choice, yes I remake this (non) choice because I learned the basics of sampling on the W-30 and they still serve me ...
Did you know that Liam Howlett wrote the first pieces of a Prodigy using a W-30!
I, on my side I took the lead on how Future Sound Of London, Coldcut, KLF, and other "sampling artists" fesaient out a sound like that!
Now I know ...
This is my first sampler ... And I always!
Bought new in France has its output (more than 10,000 bullets, a chasm in his time).
Separate outputs, making SCSI, MIDI In / Out / Thru, Audio In & Control Pedal (mono)
2 sound banks (A & B) of 7.2 sec and 14.4 @ 30khz x2 x2 sec @ 15kHz.
Uses an OS on disk (hard-drive the loading ...)
8 separate outputs (I never used because more than to buy a mixer in a time ...).
61 keys, 16 notes polyphony, sound compatibility with the series "S" Roland (eg, S50, S550, S330 sequencer ,...), type "MC".
I put a note because I'm nostalgic for that in the late 80's was the top for me.
UTILIZATION
As for the use I will be brief (quoi-que. ..).
As it was my first machine, I had no choice. I was back on!
I juggled between my cops & the W-30 ...
It's like all machines it needs to be done ...
Being new at this, I admit that the manual was a great help!
I wish to clarify that I am not a musician in (yes I admit ... LOL)
And I quickly sampled breakbeats and sounds weird old vinyl I had on hand.
What was great was to have a graphical representation of the waveform on a big LCD! I triturated already sounds a bit like in Soundforge!
SOUNDS
Ah! The sounds! A pure delight (always in the context of the time! Ed)!
Disks supplied with the machine were demos that had one simple purpose of showing the capabilities of the W-30 (I remember a piano that was eating all the memory but calling to truth).
There are no effects in the W-30!
But there is the filter (cutoff + reso), which is something crazy! With a particular grain original (I think it's typical to the series "S" of Roland.).
Keyboard sensitive to the bike and the after of course!
We can make "patches" to deploy the samples on the keyboard.
For the record I remember that I blocked the keys with small boxes to play continuous loops (because no sustain pedal)! And if it sounded good I put it all in sequence.
OVERALL OPINION
I used it long enough, until the advent of PC's.
Yep. The PC made me abandon the W-30. Thanks to an infinite memory and "multitrackers" (genre: Acid, Live, etc ...), better suited to my requirements.
I was very matter Roland machines (Juno-2, D-20, R-8 and Mc-303).
As I had no choice, yes I remake this (non) choice because I learned the basics of sampling on the W-30 and they still serve me ...
Did you know that Liam Howlett wrote the first pieces of a Prodigy using a W-30!
I, on my side I took the lead on how Future Sound Of London, Coldcut, KLF, and other "sampling artists" fesaient out a sound like that!
Now I know ...