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  On 2/15/2012 at 2:42 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 11:36 AM, Promo said:

In my experience Romplers are very hard to edit even more reason why a decent stable midi editors are needed.

 

in this day in age, there is really no point to owning a hardware 'rompler' unless one is not resourceful enough to find the same retro sampling library online.

 

all a rompler i from what i understand is a sampler without sampling capability. What piece of gear do you need a hardware editor for where it wouldnt be easier to just find/rip the samples and throw them into Kontakt?

My JV1080 is the one I'd like to be able to edit. Its okay really its just not that intuitive to use.

a rompler is not really a sampler w/o sampling capability. It's more like a synth with single cycle waveform samples as it's oscillator shapes. So it's still way more flexible than you are making it sound.

  On 2/17/2012 at 8:27 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

a rompler is not really a sampler w/o sampling capability. It's more like a synth with single cycle waveform samples as it's oscillator shapes. So it's still way more flexible than you are making it sound.

if the access to the editing controls is really difficult (as is the case on the Roland JV stuff), then it doesn't matter whether you can potentially edit stuff. If it's too difficult access and tweak, then it becomes a chore and the 'magic' gets lost.

I'm not saying you're wrong - I agree with you actually. it's just I think for a lot of people there has to be an element of instant tweakability, and with a lot of ROMplers you just don't get that.

  On 2/17/2012 at 8:27 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

a rompler is not really a sampler w/o sampling capability. It's more like a synth with single cycle waveform samples as it's oscillator shapes. So it's still way more flexible than you are making it sound.

but it is a sampler without sampling capability. And depending on what kind (one thats just a casio pcm playback keyboard or a kurzweil deep mofo) ive used both but im assuming (and probably correctly) that 95% of the people using them do not modify the presets at all and most people probably have the non editable variety. if you're going to bother to dig into the guts of something with a software editor a Rompler at least to me seems like the absolute worst place to start to get satisfying results