Used Roland rackmount sampler on Ebay = About $100


Used M-audio trigger finger = about $100

MMMMMMMMM 12 bit!!!

Get a Boss Dr. Sample. Simple to use and pretty reliable from my (limited) experience.

There are plenty of EA types in Torkee.

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you must have been to torkee as you call it for you are correct

MrFood wrote:I've been considering getting something that fills the same requirements as John's, but only if there's some kind of pedal which allows me to skip forward and back through the sample library and play whichever one right there, whilst shredding.

This is what I immediately visualized in my mind's eye:

I've used the sp-202. During a particularly enthusiastic bout of sample-triggering, I cracked the top circuit board with all of the button circuitry. I replaced it with a Roland ms-1. Similar price, sometimes cheaper, and you can get larger memory cards for it. Unfortunately, this guy is on his way out too. Don't get me wrong both of these little samplers are sturdy, there's just something about a handheld sampler that makes me want to duct tape my instrument cable to it and swing it around over my head like a lasso.

As far as triggering with your feet, the behringer fcb-1010 can assign a note value to each of its buttons.

The sp-202 also has one of my favorite sounding ring-mod effects period. If anyone has one with working top buttons but maybe no audio or something, i kind of want to bring mine back to life...

In my old band, we briefly used samples and needed a cheap device that we could use to trigger samples while we were playing.

I couldn't find one.

In the end, we used a MD player on pause and one of those remote controls you got attached to the headphones on an extended cord.

Worked for us.

I just got to thinking...

What about using a cart machine designed for radio? They sound great, are essentially a programmed string of samples that execute by a single button, and you can plug in a whole set or a single song. Really, in my mind this is probably the best option. The 8-track type carts are a little expensive but they can hold a bunch of shit. I bet you could buy out an old radio station's carts and machines during a conversion to digital automation.

If you would like to hear an example of what they can do, listen to any early Negativland lp. They used cart machines in leu of samplers. They still use cart machines live as I understand.

The answer is the radio cart machine. Foot switch to advance the carts is a really easy mod.







It's probably EXACTLY what yer looking for. No limit on 'sample' length. There might be a problem 'advancing' an early deck, and if you wanted the 'advance' feature yer talking about adding another foot switch (one for play, one for advance). Now if you wanted to get tricky you can add a record button, but these decks are pretty tricky to record on the fly with, so that's something I wouldn't suggest trying. These decks can get real tight when you get the hang of them - you can fire off a bunch of smaller 'stingers' in a row (with a somewhat 'random' effect) and you don't have to worry about stacking them into mush.

When I worked at old cart stations, which are still rather 'popular', these carts were the backbone of live broadcasting, so much so that they influenced how radio was done.

Fun machines.

I've always wanted one of those cart decks. They look so cool. But seriously, the roland ms-1 There are two on ebay right now for 10 bucks. It couldn't be easier. And for live use/touring, I bet those cart decks weigh a ton.