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Post by rapmaster E on Oct 9, 2004 20:33:22 GMT -5
first of all, id like to thank the administrator for putting this board up. now lets get on with it.
anybody that has an asr-x, what do yall think of it?
personally, i love mine...first piece of hardware ive ever owned. sampling is nice and easy, and the effects are great. some people be talkin shyt about the sequencer, but i dont have a problem with it.
i bought it for $285 about 6 months ago, and in that time, ive learned so much about it that i didnt know at first. the asr-x never ceases to amaze me.
well thats just a lil' bout me and my asr-x. and i just wanna let you know that i'll try to help everybody out who has a question.
so everybody else, tell us about your asr.
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Post by Chromatix on Oct 22, 2004 20:57:32 GMT -5
I own an ASR-X Pro and it's the ish. I found a deal about a year ago on an expansion board; EXP-3 Urban Dance Board. Anyone who owns an X, I urge you to find this board and pick it up, first chance you get. The board is well worth it's wait in gold. I'm keeping my eye's peeled for the X-8 output expander. That is the only item I'm missing to fully expand my MPC Killa! I'm working more with the sequencer on my X. I usually sequence it with my MPC 60, but may just sell it...don't know yet. It's a great sequencer, but I find myself getting to technical with sequencing because of all the options. I'll probably keep it, just say I'll sell it. Anyways, if I had to keep on piece of my studio, it would have to be the X.
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Post by Chromatix on Oct 22, 2004 21:25:04 GMT -5
d**n....just checked my manual and messing around with quantize and this sequencer's swings jus as hard as my MPC 60. If you have an X put your drum kit on track 1 and 2. Use track 1 for kick and snare and track two for cymbals. Play out your beat. Go to track 2 and set your shift your cymbals -3% or +3%. Big difference. Or you can put your kick on track 1, snare on track 2 and cymbals on track 3 to give you more flexibility on swinging each sound.
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Post by rapmaster E on Oct 23, 2004 14:26:14 GMT -5
I I found a deal about a year ago on an expansion board; EXP-3 Urban Dance Board. Anyone who owns an X, I urge you to find this board and pick it up, first chance you get. The board is well worth it's wait in gold. personally, i didnt like the EXP-3 expansion board. sold it for $275 on ebay. I didnt think the sounds were really that helpful...atleast not for me. im also keeping a lookout for the x-8 expander too. that one will be hard to come across though.
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Post by orwell on Oct 27, 2004 19:54:27 GMT -5
Hey guys Asr-x swings like an Mpc 60? Well now I’ve heard it all…<br> Chromatix- How does it stand up against the Mpc 60 in terms of swing and sound? This is one mysterious box which I’m considering buying. Hip hop and house cats have been doing some amazing things with the asr-10. They have purposefully used the asr-10’s glitches. For instance Farben (a glitch-house producer) uses his asr-10 to as a ‘jazz loop finder’. His stuff is very very warm. And I’m most interested in trying to produce something truly amazing and unique with the asr-x. I’ve heard the earlier black X's have warmer converters. Anymore unique features on the X? On the swing, users of the X claim it is unique. So what’s the problem with the sequencer? I really just want it use it as drum machine and sampler. Does the X have Roland x0x step sequencing? Thanks guys
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Post by rapmaster E on Oct 29, 2004 15:22:31 GMT -5
On the swing, users of the X claim it is unique. So what’s the problem with the sequencer? I really just want it use it as drum machine and sampler. Does the X have Roland x0x step sequencing? i really don't have a problem with using the sequencer at all. just took me a little time to get used to it... how do the rolands step sequence? tell me that, and i'll answer your question.
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orwell
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Post by orwell on Oct 31, 2004 19:09:11 GMT -5
Basically the Roland TR boxes use a 16 step sequencer where one enters notes or a drum sounds on each pad. So say a house 4/4 beat.. kicks would be 1,5,9,13... snare on 5 and 13. It's controlled and as I’ve found out recently the Mpc/sp1200/Asr-x pad system is much more creative and less restrictive.
‘I really don't have a problem with using the sequencer at all. just took me a little time to get used to it...’<br> Yeah some people say this and some have horror stories.
But I really want to now about the swing before I invest in the X. I’ve listened to a few tracks done on the Asrx and it sounds nice, but kind of sloppy, not sp1200 or Mpc 60 groovy... this is a bit of a worry. But could it be ‘unique’ with a bit more programming?
The X’s pads feel nice and I can pick up an expanded one for 300. So I might just try it out for a while.
Btw - how do I check if the X has the urban card installed?
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Post by rapmaster E on Nov 1, 2004 15:33:34 GMT -5
Btw - how do I check if the X has the urban card installed? under disk/global, hit settings, and scroll to enter memory manager. then scroll all the way to the end and it will show "Exp name" and if it is empty, it will say **empty**, but if it does have the card, i think it will show exp-3 or something like that. oh, and no you cannot sequence like a roland tr-*0*. the quantize actually does have a "swing" template, where you can also adjust how much you want it to shift the notes.
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Post by DEADLY1 on Nov 5, 2004 10:45:36 GMT -5
Right now i own an EPS16+.
I been lookin at the ASRX for a little while though.
I heard that if you edit a sample or somethin while the sequencer is playing, it will skip. Is this true?
Also, do you know if maybe i save my bank and samples and sequences on my eps16+, could i load them up in the ASRX?
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Post by tbiggz on Nov 5, 2004 15:26:02 GMT -5
I know that sequences from the EPS series will not load. Otherwise I would have had an ASRx and not an ASR10.
Actually, I'm glad now I got an ASR10 instead since it was much easier to go from EPS to ASR10.
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Post by rapmaster E on Nov 6, 2004 15:39:01 GMT -5
I heard that if you edit a sample or somethin while the sequencer is playing, it will skip. Is this true? yes, that is true, but its really not that big of a deal, because once the sequence starts over, the sample comes back on.
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Post by orwell on Nov 15, 2004 17:57:40 GMT -5
The x did have the Exp-3 so I purchased - thanks RapMaster E. Scsi, exp-3, ‘Expanded’ for $300 what a give-away! I’ve only been fiddling for a couple of days - but here are my initial impressions. Particularly when re-sampling the sound whacks. Take an old sp1200 kick and.. well it sounds kit-a-boom. An old record break with some effects sounds..thump. And does remind me of the warmth of the good old ESP 12-bit sampler I had a couple of years ago. In comparison to the PC the Ars-x sounds professional and I think warmer then the MPC 1000. There is a bit of space and flavour with snare drums for example –in other words character. The added bonus is the moogish synth engine which I haven’t fully explored as yet. The filters are nice, but I’ll be adding a tube analogue filter for extra warmth. We must remember that the X was (over) priced at 1200 dollars new - so it should sound the way it does with its converters. IMO the urban EXP-3 Urban Dance is very nice indeed. And would recommend just to re-sample then pass on to someone else – which what I will do in the future. Creating beats is easier then I expected. I haven’t quite got the hang of quantisation yet and I’m really trying for that broken beat (hip-house-jazz) swing. Small doses work best. Perhaps the sequencer is a little off key like that genius Madlib, but that’s why I brought the X: it’s unique. Getting around is the OS is annoying… but more user friendly then the difficult EPS and like anything gets easier as you go along. And here lies the great part about hardware: it forces you to go right into the heart of the machine where you will get to know it inside out. The pads are nice and soft - not as hard as the Mpc 1000. Although I’ll be investing in a zip drive I think the floppy loads fine. (Try loading on the EPS then you can complain about slow) Overall I think the X is unfairly criticised and will become a classic in the future. BTW THE BLACK X LOOKS HOT. Does anyone now of any glitches in the Asr-x to create weird and warm sound like in the ars-10? (Apparently in the Asr-10 and the EPS you can set your loop points to cross at zero it kind of shreds through all of the samples you have in your memory producing random ambience – sometimes its called ‘jazz loop finding’)
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Post by rapmaster E on Nov 17, 2004 18:54:16 GMT -5
glad to here you like it have fun with it man... and yeah, it takes a little while to get used to the OS, but you'll be breezing through it in no time.
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Post by pugsla on Jul 6, 2005 18:51:53 GMT -5
i just got mine's,, i'm lovin it,,new to it,,but lovin it
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Post by ROLLORIFIC49 on Jun 5, 2006 10:31:02 GMT -5
i love my x, i don't even care about the sequencer. i think it rocks. i use mine with a sp 303 and use two effects at the same time. I like to sample my samples from the 303 into the x. I also like to sample sound from the boss dr-5 and mangle them. You can do a lot w/ this thing! i haven't even got too far in depth with all the things it can do, but i will never sell it.
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