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Enterologus · Post by **Enterologus** » Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:48 am

I am planning to buy Symphony of Voices by Spectrasonics. On the other hand, I never worked with samples and samplers before. I got not intention to use computer and related software to play it. Only MIDI hardware such as samplers or sample players. My question is what is the most reliable and recent piece of hardware with sufficient memory to host (relatively) large files (some are 32MB) for multitimbral use?
The only solution I have think of so far is Yamaha MOXF. But can it host these files in the flash memory, and can the John Melas software convert them from Akai format to MOXF related format?
Any other solutions?

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:01 am

I didn't even realise they still sell it when most if not all of its content is in omnisphere.

Does it have to be a current hardware? I would buy a Roland S-760 sampler from ebay to run it...
For sure it is one of the cheapest solutions and it did come in a native Roland format.

https://www.spectrasonics.net/products/ ... voices.php

is it still $499? Yikes.

rsp

Enterologus · Post by **Enterologus** » Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:29 pm

I heard all the best about Roland S760 but it has one main problem for my use: It has only 32 MB. It means, I can only put one or up to 3 files at once from the Symphony of Voices library. And I need it for multitimbral use. Thank you anyway for reminder.

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:12 am

You will struggle to find hardware samplers that support more RAM than that.
People used to use RACKS of devices to accomplish this.
There is a reason most of the world moved on to using PCs.

That said, I think an Akai Z8 (and it's smaller brother Z4) could use up to 512MB. One of the last truly great samplers.

Also, it already supports Akai format. So you wouldn't even need to worry about converting the files.

Enterologus · Post by **Enterologus** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:52 pm

Akai Z8 and Z4 are obvious choices, thank you.
Is there any workstation with implemented sampler of a similar memory size that reads such Akai formats withtout problem?

Ben H · Post by **Ben H** » Thu Nov 24, 2022 2:14 pm

I'm not sure. I switched to using a PC and laptop to trigger my samples these days.

Symphony of Voices by Spectrasonics - best hardware for playing the files?