I have and often do use both the 2000xl and ASR to run digital samples and use effects or change the sonics. I have noticed that sampling into both does change the transient behavior on claps and snares. May be doing a video showing how these samplers change the sound of drums. Sometimes it’s what you’re looking for but other times it changes the sound very drastically. Thanks for tuning in! 🙏🏽

@@freeplaysamples Thanks for responding! Keep up the good content and thanks for the info!

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I have Zulu scsi but have to be honest; I don’t use it. The file structure of the ASR is confusing to me and I just transfer my work to the DAW as soon as I feel like it’s a good idea I want to continue to build on. The Facebook Ensoniq forum is a good place to find information/someone better versed with Zulu scsi, translator and file management on the ASR. Peace! 🫡💯🙏🏽

It’s not released yet but stay tuned! 🙏🏽💯

Peace and thanks for checking the video! I deeply have to agree; using samplers feels like an instrument and performing. It’s hard not to feel like we’re programming on the computers but, even back in the earlier years people who used drum machines on records were often credited under “drum programming” category. So it all comes full circle. The computer feels less fun and more “job like” but a necessary tool since we deal with digital distribution and have abandoned mixing and printing to tape for the most part. Cheers! 💯🫡

@@freeplaysamples Yes, exactly. Funny, you're right about the terminology, even I say to myself "I need to go play that bass intro and then *program* the drum beats", when it's all on vintage hardware! 😃🎹

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It’s a fun and useful sampler for sure 💯🙏🏽🫡 thanks for tuning in my bro! 🛸

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Yeah, you are correct; I believe it’s unbalanced. I got the cable from TE that is stereo 1/8” to dual unbalanced 1/4” and it works great. 🙏🏽

Thanks for tuning in brother! I believe for this beat I sampled off fl studio after time stretching my samples there to make a quick video for the community. There’s no wrong way to create and use all our tools available. I believe on other beats on the channel I chop samples as well. Feel free to check those out and stay on the lookout for future content which will surely have chopping and flipping etc. Thanks for rocking with me! 🙏🏽💯🫡

@@freeplaysamples I’m sorry bro. After I saw this I watched another video where you had the ASR connected with Ableton Live. You explained your process. Now I understand. You ish is 🔥dOpE🔥. Keep up the great work. If I’m ever in N.Y. I would love yo hook up w/ you on some beats. ✌🏽& ❤️

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Nice! I think you’re going to have fun with the KO ii. It’s really easy to get things going once you learn your way around it. I do like the sonic imprint of the ep-133 and its pitch algorithm. If you check out my video of when I copped it I go over why I decided to go with this over other samplers in the market. Unfortunately, I don’t have any experience with ASR-Pro X. Thanks for rocking with me. Peace! 🙏🏽💯❤️‍🔥

Peace my bro. Thank you so much for rocking with the channel. I don’t sell a masterclass but, if that’s what you’re looking for I think you can benefit from looking into the daydream sound ASR manual. You can search his channel on KZbin. I think his manual might be a good place to start even though I haven’t acquired it myself. But he is a reliable and helpful resource in the ASR and Ensoniq sampler ecosystem. I do offer one on one consultations and you can hit the email in my bio to inquire further. Thanks bro 🫡🤞🏽🙏🏽❤️‍🔥💯

@@freeplaysamples Thanks bro I will def hit u up for one on one consultation... I did get the daydream sound manual and its good interesting takes on macros and things I wasn't aware of im looking more for tips on adding fx to drums and samples and lil secrets like that.

🤣 it’s a digital audio workstation often referred to as a “D.A.W.” Kinda like pawg refers to…

That’s dope! Congrats on the new sampler; let me know how you like it. Have fun! Cheers! ❤️‍🔥🤞🏽💯🫡

😅 thanks my bro. That medieval looked like a good deal at first with extra memory but it’s all taken up by those samples you can’t delete and brings it to 32mb (same as my xl btw) but mainly I just hate the design and look of it lol thanks for always rocking with me my bro 🤞🏽💯❤️‍🔥

Yeah Agallah a true OG 🤞🏽thanks for always rocking with me ❤️‍🔥💯

So I’ll elaborate more here since I avoided it in the video and if anyone cares to know. So here were my main contenders: The KO II, the sp404 mk2, the elektron digitakt 1 or 2, the elektron was octatrak, the op1/op1field, Ableton push 2/3. I took into account budget, sonic appeal to ME, portability with current setup. I have never used an SP and I still consider it for down the line. But after seeing one in person it was just too big to fit with all the other things I carry. Also the deep menu diving and workflow seems like it has a high learning curve. Same with elektron; workflow and lack of slicing on digi and I think octatrak is going to get updated soon. Push would tie me to a computer/expensive for standalone. Same with op1. I’m already using it as an effect box and running sections of songs through it and like the ease of use and quick access to effects. Also used it on batteries a bunch of times and never really had a portable sampler outside of Casio sk-1. An aux cable to my phone and headphones and the workflow is very quick and reminiscent of AKAI MPC combined with ASR-10 approach. If you wrap your head around the workflow you’ll see that they tried to borrow from the strength of (in my opinion) the two best and most straightforward samplers ever created. Got a lot on the wishlist but this fit the bill for now….hope that clarifies a bit. Peace!

@@freeplaysamples yeah I make all my beats on the machine + which I like and the workflow . I wanted to get into one of these on the go samplers . I like the SP404mks but the menu diving is a bit off putting but I do think that is rolands way of doing thing more on that later. I heard once you wrap your head around its more of an instrument thoe. The octatrak is one of the most unique samplers that i think ive seen and I cant wait for the mk3 to come out its an instant cop when it does. The digitakt I like it but the idea of no manual slicing is crazy but i understand that it can be fixed in a firmware update but they dont want overshadow the big brother Octatrak I don't like how either of them sound thoe. I may have to check out the KO2 I just want something I can just sketch things out on cause I have no stand alone gears as of now . I want at least one piece gear that I can take on the go. SIDENOTE: I wish roland would get back to making like the SP-505s and 606s . To me currently roland have the best sounding samplers even the new Roland AIRA Compact P6 Desktop Creative Sampler sounds good

Couldn’t have said it any better 💯 thanks for tuning in!

As long as you’re getting your art out the way you envision it; the gear is just the paint brush 🙏🏽

The Tube Tech CL1b is an industry standard and professional grade compressor. Mainly used to track vocals in my case.

@@freeplaysamples im trying to rap a little bit , is the compression vst on fl studio enough

@@musicproduction5438 if you understand how it works and what it’s doing then use it. If you’re not too sure just make sure you record with enough gain and without clipping or overloading your input on the interface. You can always experiment with plug in effects after once you capture a clean recording. 💯🙏🏽

Peace bro, there’s a BAE 1073 preamp with eq and a tube tech CL1b compressor. It’s mainly my vocal chain; not really needed to make beats. I have it mainly since I’m a professional recording artist and industry engineer. There’s really no Amazon affiliate link for it and very pricey. But like I said you should be fine without this if your goal is to produce and master your craft. Thanks for tuning in and rocking with me!

Soon; currently working on my album. Thanks for tuning in! 🙏🏽

Besides replacing a broken key I haven’t had to do much maintenance on it. My screen is starting to show signs of forthcoming issues but, there’s a guy that started making them so not too worried about it. They use to be difficult to repair and many people abandoned ASR’s because of this issue. Short answer: I fix things as they come up or become a problem. Other than that I create and try not to let the gear get in the way. If it does; I’ll just use a daw to get my ideas out. 🙏🏽

Peace and thanks for checking out the channel. You got started early on the MP that’s a blessing. I used a 1000 and 2500 with jjos for about a summer but couldn’t connect with certain things on the hardware for both and ended up selling and just keeping the 2kXL. I feel like every user has a machine that matches their workflow and the way they create. Maybe the 1000 was meant for you and that’s awesome. I’m probably not the best person to ask since I normally do my mixing inside the samplers and then try to track into a DAW as soon as I have a solid idea going. I hear the older Mackies are good and some have mentioned good things about the newer tascams but, do your research and maybe ask some other users on channels that show these units in use and have had them for a while (over a year should be a good time frame) to see if they’ve faced any issues. Obviously buying new can give you the peace of mind of a warranty etc. hope that helps and keep creating!💯❤️‍🔥

@@freeplaysamples give thanks for taking the time to reply! Yeah See what you mean, the 1000 makes it sometimes even harder to choose Samples. Still its so much fun Just make a Loop and scratch over it... What i'm tyring to do is mix inside the 1000 as much as it can Take and thats pretty clean already (with 2xl) send all the Tracks to a separate channel, do more work on the mixer and then send it to a Sony WM-d6c Walkman on Tape. I'm not trying to get somewhere, Just for the Underground that raised me! Great Channel, thank you for content!

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I also use this method when I don’t have clear transients. Very effective; thanks for sharing! 💯

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ProTools has a feature called “tab to transient”; you press tab button on an audio clip and it will automatically bring your cursor to the transient; I’ll hit cmd+e to cut the clip and then I line everything up from there. Hope this makes sense if not, I can include the process in another future video. Thanks for rocking with me 💯🫡

@@freeplaysamples man that would be great if you could do a short video about the process about tracking and aligning all tracks together! btw, by doing the "tab to transient" does the beats feels the same, like the swing and the feel or do you find it's a little bit different in the asr10 vs protools

@@redspiderz6037 I’ll do a video soon breaking down the process of tracking into pro tools. It doesn’t change the feel at all. A transient is a transient; it’s when the sound starts. Even when I track artist I make sure the instrumentals I import start exactly on the transient in pro tools to make it possible to “fly over” hooks or copy information to other sections and not go off timing. I’ll elaborate this further in the video but, my short answer is no.

@@freeplaysamples thanks man, I appreciate it, looking forward to the video, keep up the great work!

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Hybrid set up; can’t beat that. Thanks for rocking with me! ❤️‍🔥💯🙏🏽

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@@nochattermoneymatter I didn’t know that. That makes sense though considering he was just using it for sequencing.

@@UrbanJournal But to be honest he made some of his best music using a 2000xl so I guess if it’s not broken don’t fix it. I’d say in 2017 and 2018 he made the switch to more modern MPC’s

Link any videos you have of Ye on the modern MPC. I remember watching a Mike Dean interview talking about how they would have drum hell week and they would each have different MPCs and rework drum parts. I definitely like doing drums and chopping on the 2kXL just don’t have much room for it in my setup rn. Also Travis, Metro still rocking the 2kXL heavy in recent years. Jermaine Dupri and Sonny Digital killing it on the modern MPCs as well. Thanks for rocking with me and the channel 💯🤞🏽❤️‍🔥

I have been eyeing a live 2 retro or one retro since it reminds me of my 2kXL and see a lot of producers I respect using the modern MPCs. I have not used or looked into them though; now that they announced 3 I think I may wait until they drop a new unit or at least iron out the bugs it may have and add software support. I’m not really an early adopter on gear. I like getting things that are going to work without interruptions if possible. Thanks for checking the channel. 🙏🏽

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They’re pretty good and made me stop wanting NS-10’s. Thanks bro; I do enjoy public speaking and recording 🙏🏽💯

Definitely going to check those guys out and yeah KZbin algorithm is weird but I just want to genuinely connect with what’s going on at the moment. Thanks for rocking and supporting the channel 💯❤️‍🔥🙏🏽

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That’s dope; I want to learn DJ’ing. The legendary ASR-X; haven’t had a chance to see one in person. Also love the look and vibe of the S3000XL. Cheers and thanks for rocking with me! 💯❤️‍🔥🫡

@@freeplaysamples when I was living in NYC I used to teach at Dubspot (now closed) when I wasn’t touring with the artist I was djing for. I’m originally from London. The ASR-X, while it can be tricky, is a great device. The Daydream Sound on KZbin has a lot of tips on old school samplers. Check him out of you haven’t already

Another vote for the ferrofish; I was very close to buying one before I sold my RME and do miss total mix. Really considering it when I get into a more stable studio situation. I may have to take you up on that offer soon my bro when things calm down a bit. Thanks for your continued support🙏🏽💯❤️‍🔥🫡

He said he tracks vocals with it, no?

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Mostly to track vocals for myself and clients. A lot of my work in the NYC music scene has been as a recording/tracking engineer. I also run guitars or bass through the chain as well. Thanks for rocking with me 🙏🏽💯❤️‍🔥