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OK..I'm going to ask the masses- I am looking for a way to have soundbites for my show (and my, um, day job) but want a simple no-brainer method to do it.
I want to be able to have hundreds of sound bites at my fingertips without having to skip CD tracks constantly. (once upon a time, the Roland Sample workstation came out that allowed for various samples to be assigned to individual keys on a keyboard, and you could change banks of samples so each bank had like 32 samples, all assigned to individual keys). Anything like that? I don't want to lug a computer around, and it needs to be simple- perhaps with data diskettes as necessary. Thanks, gang!
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I often hear on radio stations that I listen to, refering to a device called a "360"...I've scoured the net, but have come up with nada...anyone (broadcast DJ's, perhaps) know anymore details on this goomer?
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Maybe the products that Roland has out in the "Groove" line might be suitable for what you want to do (they are a sampler/drum machine/effects box) - I'm not really sure what else there is in the line these days. Rosie O'Donnell uses a 360 Systems DigiCart which would do what you want: http://www.360systems.com/docs/prod_dcplus_main.html These can be quite expensive, but the odd used unit shows up once in a while for a decent price. It's basically a digital hard disk (actually zip disk) recorder which allows you digital tag each of your recordings much like a track designator on a CD - pretty damn close to instant access. (Rosie's control box was a custom thing - the actual unit has the option of either direct entry of the track number, or using the next/previous buttons.....)
I'll do some more checking and see if I can come up with anything else..... Posts: 900 | From: Ottawa, ON Canada | Registered: Dec 2000
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I've hooked up my portable MP3 player to the mixer before (for emergency bumper music), and it worked out very good. They're relatively inexpensive nowadays (maybe $100-$300 range), and you could put a ton of sound effects in it and change them out whenever you want. The only problem is, I've never seen one where you could punch in the "track #" for immedate access... you'd have to press "forward" 60 times or whatever to get the effect you wanted.
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I haven't found it to be a problem to punch in the high numbers on my RSQ and Pioneer CDG players. I have a few TV/commercial discs that go up to 50 or so tracks. On the other hand, my American DJ player doesn't have the ability to punch in those numbers, so there is a lot of tapping. I've worked with a newer Denon player that has a rotary dial which is really quick, but it's not a CDG unit.
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Karawolf, there are many free programs available that do these conversions for you easily. My MP3 player let's me put in either WAV files or MP3 files so it doesn't really matter besides the space used - .WAV files take up around 10 times more space... but if they're just small clips, you can still fit hundreds of them on a basic player.
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Maybe the products that Roland has out in the "Groove" line might be suitable for what you want to do (they are a sampler/drum machine/effects box) - I'm not really sure what else there is in the line these days.
