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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

KORG DSS-1 Sample

Title link takes you to a KORG DSS-1 track - "Don't know yet." It was performed by Henry and mixed by daddio of tapewarm. There are some very interesting textures. The DSS-1 always fascinated me. You could draw your own waveforms on in by adjusting a slider over time. I remember playing with one once and was fascinated by the waveforms I could come up with. It's also said to have the best filter.

4 comments:

  1. I have one here, but haven't had time to sort out 110v power for it yet. One of two recent eBay bargains - the other being a pristine Technics WSA-1 boxed and with manuals. Haven't had time to do anything with that either. Bugger bugger bugger.

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  2. Some company has to come up with newer samplers. Something with new ideas, something that can record by itself. Something with real analog filters. Kinda like a mix of ensoniq eps, korg dss 1 and others...

    dreaming is freee, huh ?

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  3. I guess they sell for so cheap because they are big and heavy. I think it's fair to think of it as the top of the DW-6000/8000 line. Obviously just because it's so old, it's not much of a sampler by modern standards. The disk load time is incredibly long and sampling your own sounds takes a lot of steps. But if you consider it as a ROM-pler with first rate real filters it starts to be really impressive. It does have the ability to quickly load non-sample data fast while retaining the samples you've earlier loaded into RAM.

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  4. I have one to, and getting it serviced as i post this message. Its a killer sound tool! I don't save the sounds, just sample them in my computer or sampler. Just like you would with a modular system.

    Looking for a modern beauty? look for a spectralis. it does not sample by itszelf but you can download your samples in it thru usb. Thru Fat Analoque fixed Filterbank! Also a amazing instrument

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