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- Vertical Twist Sound Sampler
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- I remember the days when I had my Commodore 64. I used to buy a
- disc magazine and there was a music package that had a sample of the
- Neighbours theme tune. It amazed me how they got the computer to do
- that, especially as the computer only had 64K. Then I got an Arc (a
- wise move!) and saw an advert for a sound sampler from Vertical
- Twist. The first thing that came to my mind was that I've got to buy
- it, and I did. I was pretty amazed at the samples that I was
- producing, but after a while I saw an advert for a sampler that was
- £10 cheaper and looked better than the quite poor specification of my
- sampler and you got a microphone with it. What you get is a little
- grey box that plugs into the printer port with a lead that plugs into
- the headphone socket of your hi-fi or whatever you are going to use,
- but unlike some other samplers, it doesn't have another connector for
- the printer to plug in, which is surprising as it's one of the more
- expensive ones. You also get a sampling program called Pulse, which
- is quite good, allowing you to save as a Tracker, Armadeus or
- relocatable module sample. The Tracker samples aren't saved
- correctly, so I have to save as an Armadeus sample to use in Tracker.
- I have to sample at 20833Hz to get a decent sample quality, unlike
- other samplers that give a quite good sample quality at 10KHz. But
- sometimes I can get away with 13KHz (just!). It's editing facilities
- are quite good though. You can select areas of the sample, cut it
- out, filter it, reverse it, fade in/out and over/under sample.
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- Facilities 7/10
- Sample quality 6/10
- Value for money 5/10
- Overall 6/10
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- If this hadn't of been the only sampler advert I saw, I wouldn't
- have bought this, although the software seems superior to the rest.
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- Product: Printer Port Sampler
- Price : £39.95
- Contact : Vertical Twist (0243) 531194
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