Oh yes. I've come to realize that i don't sample too much due to the major pain in the arse that it means to make a hardware sampler work. Of course that there's the option of software, but i don't want to go into the hardware versus software issue.
Do we need another hardware sampler ? Oh, yes. There's a drought of keyboard based samplers these days. Most samplers are ugly boxes with a single audition key to play them. That's so uninspiring.
There was a horrible demo of this beautiful machine a couple of weeks ago, where the hype team wasn't unable to demonstrate anything beyond the fact that they were terrible beatboxers. Anyways, here's a better official demo that highlights some of the strong points in this machine.
Some people might say that the design is ugly ("washing machine aesthetic") but i like the fact that it could happily replace my long lost Casio SK-5.
Probably it doesn't add too much if you own an ESX-1 and a keyboard - except polyphonic sounds!
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