ES 2 officially out in the U.S. + ES2 Sampling videos!

[dutchcow]

Not to add some more negativity but Franks vids just don't do it for me. I will wait for Sonicstate to do a proper video review. I hope Nick waits for this final swappable firmware that will solve all bugs and issues.

[dschroeter]

Not to add some more negativity

LOL

[bezlbos]

i feel like ive been conned. updated the software and still sucks, hell seems like all hardware samplers are looking at extinction. if you dont have alot of cash still dont buy this.get a real sampler, mpc or close to it.

[jbl]

Can you explain the sample time to me?
If I understand correctly, the card can hold more than 270secs., no?
But then what does the 270sec.refer to?

I'm sorry I keep asking this question everywhere but it just seems that Korg had samples of a second or close to it and 500 of them loaded. Even if the samples were half a second and mono, it would still cost 250 secs. But on one video, it looks like there is 80 seconds on sample 505. Which means that he used had already recorded 4 samples and there were 500 factories.

[disconnector]

But on one video, it looks like there is 80 seconds on sample 505. Which means that he used had already recorded 4 samples and there were 500 factories.

So, as I discovered (after my initial post in another thread) - you can delete all the factory stuff. When you do, the "user" samples still go into "500" for the starting point. If you've deleted everything before it, fine, but it still starts there. You don't even have to scroll through blank sample slots - the ES2 just picks up at the first slot that has data in it.

[sauce]

Even if the samples were half a second and mono, it would still cost 250 secs.

I can't be certain how things work on the new unit, but on the ESX I have had to be *very* creative with sample memory to be able to use the machine effectively. Granted, I began my sampling history on the Roland S-10, featuring a grand total of 14 seconds in low fidelity; 7 seconds in "high" (LOL) fidelity. Anyway, very few of my ESX samples reach 1/2 a second in length, with most single-cycle synth waves being a tiny, tiny looped sample. I make my own 1-second samples, each having 128 synth waves. My own personal ESX template has 20,000 synth waves and I still have over 80 seconds left.