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[wagtunes]

Just a quick off-topic note. For those who might not have seen it, here’s what was on the product page today:

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/asr-v-by-hare-tech

It’s not for me. But if anyone’s interested in the ASR, it might be worth checking out. I can’t say anything about the product itself.

OMG, does this take me back. I remember wrestling with floppy disks. What a PITA but nothing sounded like this. Nothing.

Problem I have with locking in the pre launch price is what if when it comes out it doesn't work? Then what? I'm screwed. And I'm certainly not paying $200 for an ASR 10 regardless of how cool it is. So it looks like a reluctant hard pass.

[Uncle E]

OMG, does this take me back. I remember wrestling with floppy disks. What a PITA but nothing sounded like this. Nothing.

Wasn't the charm of the ASR how much more accurate it sounded compared to other samplers? If so, does that mean it sounds similar to software samplers (aside from the effects)?

[wagtunes]

OMG, does this take me back. I remember wrestling with floppy disks. What a PITA but nothing sounded like this. Nothing.

Wasn't the charm of the ASR how much more accurate it sounded compared to other samplers? If so, does that mean it sounds similar to software samplers (aside from the effects)?

Compared to today's other samplers? I don't know. At the time, it was state of the art. Now? You're getting it for that sound.

[IvyBirds]

OMG, does this take me back. I remember wrestling with floppy disks. What a PITA but nothing sounded like this. Nothing.

Wasn't the charm of the ASR how much more accurate it sounded compared to other samplers? If so, does that mean it sounds similar to software samplers (aside from the effects)?

It was 16 Bit at 29.something kHz or 44.1 kHz nothing really special there. As a plugin it won't really have any special character

Could be expanded to 16mb of RAM

It's main selling point was that it had a good (for it's time) multi track sequencer, and good (for its time) effects that were put in a rack by themselves and called the Ensoniq DP/4

You could also easily record you own samples and then chop them up. That along with the sequencer made it extremely popular in its time with people making Hip-hop as you could sample old records and make beats

Maybe I'm wrong but I can't see very many people wanting to do this in a plugin. There are so many better tools to do these things in your DAW and so many sampler plugins that can do do 16bit 44.1k or 30ish sample playback

[Seafire Mk2]

I had an EPS 16+

[wagtunes]

Just a quick off-topic note. For those who might not have seen it, here’s what was on the product page today:

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/asr-v-by-hare-tech

It’s not for me. But if anyone’s interested in the ASR, it might be worth checking out. I can’t say anything about the product itself.

I just had an email exchange with this vendor that was drastically short of pleasant. It is unlikely I will ever buy this or anything from them, EVER.

[Uncle E]

You could also easily record you own samples and then chop them up. That along with the sequencer made it extremely popular in its time with people making Hip-hop as you could sample old records and make beats

Maybe I'm wrong but I can't see very many people wanting to do this in a plugin. There are so many better tools to do these things in your DAW and so many sampler plugins that can do do 16bit 44.1k or 30ish sample playback

Thanks. That's what I was thinking. The EPS is the one I always lusted after. Autechre said they could lock in loop ranges and use the mod wheel to cycle through different ones, but I don't know if a stock EPS could do that or if it required their custom software.

[Teksonik]

Just a quick off-topic note. For those who might not have seen it, here’s what was on the product page today:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/asr-v-by-hare-tech
It’s not for me. But if anyone’s interested in the ASR, it might be worth checking out. I can’t say anything about the product itself.

Looks very interesting but $99 for a pre-order from an unknown developer is a hard ask.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the project.

[Teksonik]

Digital Sound Factory owns the Emu stuff now I think.

They license it from Creative and sell the presets as Kontact Libraries and Sound Fonts. It's not quite the same as it doesn't have the Z plane filters

So Creative is up for licensing content so why not fully sanctioned versions of the VFX, SQ-1, ASR 10, TS 10, and Fizmo either from Arturia, Cherry Audio, or any other developer willing to make a plugin version?

Seems like there is at least some hope....

Eventually developers are going to run out of analog synths to emulate so emulations of these types of synths which were popular in their day would seem to be the next logical step.

Totally agree,
also FWIW their sample sets are really good for what they are. The founder of the company Timothy Swartz was the lead sound designer for E-mu on the Proteus line before the acquisition and then abandonment of E-mu by Creative, so he knows what they should sound like. You will find criticism of them online by various people expecting pristine modern samples of things like violins, but as someone who owned most of the Proteus line in hardware I think they sound spot on. The Proteus sample library was only a few MBs after all
They sell the Soundfont versions of their catalog pretty cheap and you can then use the excellent and free Convertwithmoss software to convert it to modern formats. They just updated that to support Omnisphere 3 which means I will soon have the entire Proteus Library inside of Omnisphere as soon as I get the time

I seem to remember purchasing some of their soundfonts but memory may fail. I definitely took advantage of their free stuff and it was good.

If we're looking for the most accurate pianos, strings, etc I don't think anything can beat software these days but every sample based synth I've owned had some special samples that gave them each a unique sound.

I still own but rarely ever power up these days a Korg 03R/W, Roland JV880 and U220 and an Alesis S4 Plus but I do occasionally sample them.