From atteanwi@atc.mil.se Thu Dec 22 09:10:39 1994 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 09:43:33 --100 From: Anders Wikholm To: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Opinions on Studio 440 >I would like to ask the members of this list about their opinion/experience on >the Sequential Studio 440. > A wonderful combination of 32 channel midi sequencer (two separate outs) and drum oriented sampler. The sampler part is very similar to Prophet 2000+/2002+, alas without the resonance on the analog filters. Good sound quality, one 12 bit d-a converter per voice. Very fun and fast to work with. Extremely unreliable software and hardware though. My brother had one when they were new. His unit had memory chips from different manufactureres, which probably explains some of the the frequent hard crashes. I tried to use it in the studio once. As I recorded take 3 notes dissappeared from take one and so it continued. We ended up using an amiga-sequencer and the Studio 440 as the worlds most expensive midi-merge box. (It cost 36.000 sek at the time...) My brother finally got tired an bought an EPS. However, If you find a Studio 440 that works, go for it. It's much better than the similar unit from Akai/Roger Linn. >I've been offered one and have to make a desicion. I'm looking for a drum >machine which provides the conventional sounds + the option to use (a fair >number) of own sounds. > >In particular I have the following questions: > >* How many sounds (eprom + own) can I access at the same time > >* Can I make groups of instruments (preventing them from sounding together) >and if so, how many groups can be made (with own sounds) > >* How many voices has it got > >* Which upgrades are available > >* What is a reasonable price > No EPROM. You load sounds from 3.5' diskettes or optional SCSI hard drive. If I remember it right the memory can hold 32 samples. You can play eight voices at the same time. It reads all Prohet sounds (except Prophet 3000), which means it has a huge sound library. I think it has 1 meg RAM. Wine Country sells a less bug infested operating system that even makes the SCSI interface work. They also sell reconditioned 440:s with latest software and hardware. I guess a resonable street price would be somewhat lower than half the price Wine Country charges (which I unfortunately don't remeber, I have the catalogue at home). I would gladly pay the price WC charges to know I got a unit that really works. By the way, I don't really understand the irritation on Wine Country that sometimes appear on AH. They have high prices on some things (and - compared to the swedish market - low on other things), but on the other hand they have to make a living on it, and their service is great. /AW I use my Prophet 2002+ every day. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Wikholm aka MOULIN NOIR "What would life be without the Korg Trident?" ----------------------------------------------------------------- From map@june.cs.washington.edu Wed Jun 1 15:41:55 1994 Delivery-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 15:25:30 PDT Return-Path: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.28]) by june.cs.washington.edu (8.6.8/7.2ju) with ESMTP id PAA21981 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 1994 15:25:27 -0700 Received: from localhost by photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.6.4/4.940426) id RAA15804; Wed, 1 Jun 1994 17:51:34 -0400 Errors-To: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Sender: analogue-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Received: from halcyon.com by photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.6.4/4.940426) id RAA15787; Wed, 1 Jun 1994 17:51:31 -0400 Received: by halcyon.com id AA27300 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu); Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:51:26 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 14:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Transistor Rhythm Subject: Re: Studio 440 To: fEEd Cc: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu In-Reply-To: <69286.feed@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, fEEd wrote: > Can someone give me a rundown on the specs of this beastie? I am pretty > familiar with it, but would like more exact detailas if at all possible. I > think either it or one of the Prophets are close to what i want in a > sampler. > VOICES: the studio 440 is 8 voice polyphony. up to 32 internal sounds at a time, each with two sets of analog voice parameters. 12-bit sampling at 16,31, or 42 kHz. ASR amplitude and filter envelopes, lowpass filters, pitch-bend on attack, reverse sounds, back and forth looping, sustain and release loops. velocity and pitch tracking modulation of attack, amplitude, filter cutoff, and release. MEMORY: about 50,000 MIDI notes. 512K of 12-bit words of sampling memory. PERFORMANCE FEATURES: velocity-sensitive drum pads with adjustable pitch, pan, and level. programmable MIDI input and output routing for internal sounds and pads. SEQUENCER: 99 sequences, eight polyphonic tracks per sequence. 12 song chains. nested repeat loops. velocity scaling, rechannelizing, selectable erasing of many data types, programmable tempo changes, tap tempo. 32 MIDI channels. individual drum hits resignable to other sounds after recording. song postion pointer sent and received. INTERFACING: SMPTE, pulse clock, MIDI clock, and MIDI Time Code synchronization. clock in, clock out, tape clock out. stereo audio outs plus eight individual voices out. MIDI in, two outs, out/thru, plus dedicated MIDI sync jacks. sample in, three footswitch ins, SCSI computer jack. taken from keyboard april/87 -_->psiborg<-_-