What kind of sampler did Ferris Bueller use?

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What kind of sampler did Ferris Bueller use?

Post by ;ivlunsdystf » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:30 pm

Just curious.

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Post by electrofloss » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:34 pm

Anyone? Anyone?

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Post by pulse_divider » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:35 pm

E-mu Emulator II
Beautiful sounding sampler, only 8 bit but analog filters (SSMs to boot!) and VCAs on every voice.
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http://www.emulatorarchive.com/Samplers ... rview.html

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Post by dynomike » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:36 pm

dammit, you beat me. we had one of those at my high school...
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Post by JohnDavisNYC » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:04 pm

i have one of those. and a broken one for parts. i LOVE them. they are amazing. i need to get more discs... 400 of my discs were destroyed in a flood last year... i have like 20 that were on a shelf that are still ok.

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Post by 1chroma7 » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:34 pm

i always thought it was funny that he had an $8000 sampler in his bedroom. and he complains his parents wouldn't buy him a car. a friend used to have one that belonged to the residents, it came with a lot of weird samples.

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Post by jmiller » Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:50 pm

I always liked the Cabaret Voltaire poster on his wall.

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Post by Ryan Silva » Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:25 pm

I have a Ensonic Mirage the first affordable sampler at the time $2k I think. It's 8 bit and very difficult to navagate, but hey Analog LFOs gotta love that.
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Post by jmiller » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:28 pm

The Mirage is badass. I've got a mirage and an ESQ1. I used to save sounds and sequences from the ESQ to the mirage's disk drive via midi dumps. It was either that or back up to cassette tape.

I still get a twisted sense of satisfaction from having to punch in numbers and cycle through hex to change parameters :twisted:

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Post by leigh » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:07 am

jmiller wrote:I still get a twisted sense of satisfaction from having to punch in numbers and cycle through hex to change parameters.
Twisted indeed! I tried writing an editor/librarian app for the Mirage a few years back, and it was near impossible. IIRC, the biggest stumbling block was that, even accessing parameters from MIDI, you could only move a parameter value up or down - there was no way to enter an "absolute" value for a parameter. So, if a certain parameter ranged from 0-31, and the computer didn't know where that value was sitting, and the computer also could only command "go up one" or "go down one"... the only way to do it was to zero the value every time (issue 31 "go down one" commands to make sure the value was reduced to zero) and then build it back up from zero to where you wanted it.

Sure, that doesn't sound too hard to automate with a computer, but since the Mirage was slow to respond, you'd have to wait maybe half a second between each "go down" command, to make sure the Mirage had caught up. Multiply that by all the values for all the parameters, and a true librarian application was a mess!

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