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Well, people call it the poor man’s sampler. It is the cheapest sampler in the world. Followed by the SK-5, the second cheapest in the world. It’s a polyphonic synthesizer (just four voices) with very cheap sounds and it can store one sample in its memory. The sampling is 8-bit PCM, 9.38kHz, giving about 1.4 seconds. It’s so gritty… Samples can only be recorded through the awful mini-mic built-in to the upper-right corner or a 3.5mm line-input plug on the backside of the synth. Alas, its memory clears when turned off.
Well, people call it the poor man’s sampler. It is the cheapest sampler in the world. Followed by the SK-5, the second cheapest in the world. It’s a polyphonic synthesizer (just four voices) with very cheap sounds and it can store one sample in its memory. The sampling is 8-bit PCM, 9.38kHz, giving about 1.4 seconds. It’s so gritty… Samples can only be recorded through the awful mini-mic built-in to the upper-right corner or a 3.5mm line-input plug on the backside of the synth. Alas, its memory clears when turned off.
Obviously it’s designed as a cheap toy for consumers. This is the sort of sampler-toy you end up belching into with your friends and play burp-songs for a laugh! There are 11 built-in accompaniment-style drum patterns (disco, rock, samba, etc.) which are all embarrassingly fun and totally unusable. The keyboard uses mini plastic keys. It lacks MIDI, lacks effects, edit-ability, memory, and filtering. However there are 13 envelope shapes that can affect your sample or synth sounds somewhat. There is also portamento, vibrato, and chord accompaniment with the chord selector system.
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So what could one get for less than a hundred smackers? Quite a lot, but not much at all. A full four voices could be played at once, but only one sound at a time – in addition to the preset rhythms. Samples were 8-bit (like the Mirage, and the Emulator before it), but the sample rate was a meagre 9.38Hz, meaning a very narrow frequency range. Sample length was limited to 1.4 seconds, but samples could be looped and envelopes imposed (13 presets shapes were offered). Samples were recorded either via the built-in microphone or a minijack line input.
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Alexzander –
love this thing, just so much fun to use