Sunday, February 7, 2010

baby eater lab

From left to right:
No quickpump, but I do have tissues.
Posted by brephophagizzle at 10:43 PM
Labels: , ,

10 comments:

  1. alexFebruary 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM

    tight. what's that little fella next to the kaoss pad? and how do you like the padkontrol? i thought about getting one of those. i think i might want to get a launchpad first, though.

    ReplyDelete
  2. brephophagizzleFebruary 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM

    that little fella is a Grundig AM/FM/Shortwave portable radio. If you need grindy samples of music that is the Latino equivalent of Doris Day, I am right there for you.

    the padkontrol is SWEET. I am tempted to babble for more than a few sentences because of just how sweet it is, but, in the interests of not looking like a schoolgirl, I'll have to post a full review sometime later.

    ReplyDelete
  3. WorldSpec.February 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM

    word. can keyboards lookin thorough. padKontrol is sweeet, can 2nd that, fer sherrr. got the korg pedal controller too, nice addition. umm, so i was thinking? -not the best at chaining/wiring, but i;m thinkin of getting an akai s3000 rack sampler(pawn shop steal)-u already kno it has midi, but do you think it would sync up with padKontrol with relative ease?

    ReplyDelete
  4. tudikas wayneFebruary 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM

    i'm really curious about the padkontrol now.

    ReplyDelete
  5. brephophagizzleFebruary 8, 2010 at 7:13 PM

    spec - padkontrol doesn't know shit about timecode / sync / etc., if you mean proper sync. that's one of the few cons of the thing - even the flams / rolls shit you can do with the x/y pad won't sync to MTC or word clock (in that respect, it is really just a dumb MIDI controller out-of-the-box).

    personally, I don't really care about that; if I need a buzzroll that's square on-time, odds are I will be sequencing it or e.g. using the retrigger / echo shit in Battery.

    for just routing the pads to trigger samples on the s3000, though, I don't think you'd have any trouble. Or, more specifically, you'd prolly have more difficulty with the S3000 than with the padKontrol. I've never used one before, so I'm not sure how ornery those things are. Surely between Gray, Alex, and Brian, someone has, though.

    the real sweet part: there's a well-documented "native mode" (for geeks: only SysEx I/O) for the padKontrol that makes it more than just a great-feeling, easily-configurable pad controller (think monome, but smaller, velocity sensitive, and with an LED display and loads of function buttons). check out nativekontrol.com, and videos on youtube by user Stray411.

    ReplyDelete
  6. alexFebruary 9, 2010 at 5:57 AM

    i actually bought a S2000 rack sampler brand new back in high school. i used it some back then, but haven't really touched it since before college. i got a k2000 not long after and that sort of filled my hardware sampler needs until i got into doing stuff more on computers. i just remember it being a total bitch to do something even as simple as setting up a drum map on a little LCD screen like that.

    that said, there shouldn't be any problem getting a padkontrol to trigger an S3000 or such with regular midi notes. i doubt, though, that you'd be able to get the S3000 to talk back to the padkontrol in any meaningful way.

    when you have stuff like Kontakt, Battery, etc. for computers, the idea of a hardware sampler just doesn't make much sense to me unless it's gritty as fuck (EPS), has big chunky buttons (MPC2000), or both (MPC60). is there something i'm missing about these old Akai S-series samplers that would warrant pulling it out of the closet?

    ReplyDelete
  7. sqrt (Brian)February 9, 2010 at 8:25 AM

    on a side note, I got one of those orange DS-1 boss pedals for helping some guy move a while back. It needs more ballz. I found some easy mods to do on it, and will tackle that in the next little while (sometime in the next couple of years I am sure). If I fuck with mine and it works, I will mail it to you and let you A/B them.

    Thanks to Ben for getting everyone to put gear porn up.

    ReplyDelete
  8. WorldSpec.February 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM

    yea, real curious to hear some gritty, analog warmth come through my digital controller. alex, break out that 2000, plug er in, and let us hear some of that lovely crustiness. AND, indeed thanks to ben.

    oh. i pimpsmack my midi machines when they thnk they can talk back, sheeiiiit... bitch betta have my $

    ReplyDelete
  9. alexFebruary 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM

    my s2000 is currently at my parents' house in NC, so i doubt i'll be using it any time soon. i have been thinking about breaking out my old k2000 though. it samples at CD-quality like the s2000, so it's not particularly "gritty", but it has some really unusual sound processing options. also, you can play pong on it (seriously).

    ReplyDelete
  10. brephophagizzleFebruary 9, 2010 at 3:31 PM

    Glad to see someone put those famed Kurzweil ribbon controllers to good use.

    But can it run DOOM?

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)