I hear Behringer are bringing out a DFA clone in the next few weeks.
It will have both MIDI and USB sockets, and will be available in a whole range of "attractive" colours.
According to my source, it's expected to start shipping from the beginning of April - I've pre-ordered mine already!
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blinddrew wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:04 pm
Rompler. Saw it in the mag this month and I'm really not sure what it is.
But I might have one in the garage.
Didn't you ever wear a rompler suit when you were young?
Replace 'sam' in sampler with 'ROM', and you get a ROMpler. A synth that basically plays back samples stored in ROM, though often allowing you to mix different samples in layers and to change the filters and envelopes plus add effects etc. A pure ROMpler has no other means of sound creation onboard (e.g. no oscillators). The Roland JV1080 would be a classic example of a ROMpler.
Yep. Wonks summed it up nicely but it's a term close to my heart so I'll add my supplementary definition.
"A device that uses samples instead of oscillators but cannot sample and within which the waveforms are stored in ROM as opposed to RAM or equivalent".
One advantage of a rompler is that you don't have the hassle of keymapping and such. It 'just works' due to the effort put in by the engineers who created the product. They are generally better at sampling than users are.
Of course the downside is you can't play samples you created.
There is a grey area between sampler and rompler which is a synth that has no sampling hardware but which has memory into which user-samples can be loaded (the Yamaha SY85 being an old example and the Kurzweil K2700 being a new one) but that feature comes with various caveats, overheads and limitations and technically that's not completely romplerific* by definition.
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