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Roland SP-808EX E-Mix Studio
The Roland SP-808 GrooveSampler and SP-808EX/E-Mix Studio are both discontinued workstations, which function as digital samplers, synthesizers, and music sequencers. The digital samplers are a part of the long line of both Roland Corporation's and Boss Corporation's Groove Gear, which includes the more popular and successful Boss SP-303 and Roland SP-404 versions. Background Being an early installment in the SP lineage, the SP-808 GrooveSampler was originally released in the year of 1998. Sometime in the year 2000, the sampler was updated, redesigned, and released as the SP-808EX, with the additional name of "e-Mix Studio." Despite receiving an upgrade, both versions of the SP-808 have and also lack certain features of the succeeding SP installments. Features Groovesampler The original Roland SP-808 GrooveSampler can play up to four stereo samples simultaneously, with the sample rates of 44.1 and 32 kHz. The maximum sample time allowed is 25 minutes of stereo at the rate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Musical Instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronics, electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into a power amplifier which drives a loudspeaker, creating the sound heard by the performer and listener. An electronic instrument might include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch (music), pitch, frequency, or duration of each Musical note, note. A common user interface is the musical keyboard, which functions similarly to the keyboard on an acoustic piano where the keys are each linked mechanically to swinging string hammers - whereas with an electronic keyboard, the keyboard interface is linked to a synth module, computer or other electronic or digital sound generator, which then creates a sound. However, it is increasingly common to separate user interface and sound-generating functions int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland SP-404SX
The Roland SP-404 sampler (musical instrument), Sampling Workstation is a sampler made by Roland Corporation. Released in 2005, it is part of the SP family and successor to where Boss Corporation’s Boss SP-505, SP-505 sampler left off. The sampler was succeeded by the Roland SP-555, SP-555 in 2008, but was later given its own upgrade as the Roland SP-404SX Linear Wave Sampler in 2009. Another upgrade, the Roland SP-404A Linear Wave Sampler, was released in 2017. A third upgrade, the SP-404MKII was released in 2021. The Roland SP-404 has played a huge role in influencing the sound of popular Hip Hop subgenre known as Lofi HipHop. Features OG / SX / A Having the traditional features of the Roland Grooveboxes, the 404 has the ability to record audio directly via line/mic, or import/export industry-standard WAV and AIF files via CompactFlash card. An onboard pattern sequencer allows up to 8,000 notes to be recorded in real time. Pattern data can be quantized and up to 24 pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samplers (musical Instrument)
Sampler may refer to: * Sampler (signal), a digital signal processing device that converts a continuous signal to a discrete signal * Sampler (needlework), a handstitched piece of embroidery used to demonstrate skill in needlework * Sampler (surname) * A quilt where each block is constructed using a different pattern * Sampler, or hydrocarbon well logging, or mud logger * In sampling (medicine), the instrument used Music * Sampler (musical instrument), a device used to create digital recordings called samples * Sampler (Cardiacs album), ''Sampler'' (Cardiacs album), 1995 * Sampler (Cat Empire EP), ''Sampler'' (Cat Empire EP) * Sampler (Plumb EP), ''Sampler'' (Plumb EP) * Sampler album, a type of compilation album ** ''In Store Jam'', a promotional compilation by Jamiroquai See also * Sample (other) * Sampling (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rekha Malhotra
DJ Rekha (born Rekha Malhotra, 1971) is a London-born musician, DJ, producer, curator, activist. They have been credited with pioneering Bhangra (music), Bhangra music in North America. Their first album, ''DJ Rekha Presents Basement Bhangra'', released in October 2007 on Koch Records, fuses the Indian genre of bhangra music with international hip-hop and drum beats. Early life DJ Rekha spent the first year of their life in London, and the following three years in New Delhi, India. They credit this time in India as critical for exposure to Punjabi language, Punjabi, the primary language of bhangra. They returned to London briefly until their family moved to Queens, New York. DJ Rekha spent most of their adolescence in Westbury, Long Island and currently lives in Jackson Heights, Queens. They graduated from Queens College with a degree in Urban Studies while simultaneously experimenting and honing their craft on the Phonograph, turntables. Music DJ Rekha launched a monthly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Jones (musician)
Craig Michael Jones (born February 11, 1972), also known as 133, is an American musician. He is the former Sampler (musical instrument), sampler and keyboardist of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he was designated #5 amongst its nine member lineup. Jones joined the band in early 1996, shortly after the band had finished recording its demo album, ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.''. Initially, he was brought in to replace Donnie Steele, one of the two original guitarists, though he moved on to Sampling (music), sampling and keyboards. Following the departure of fellow bandmate and drummer Joey Jordison in 2013, Jones was the second-longest-serving member of Slipknot. On June 7, 2023, Slipknot announced they parted ways with Jones, though the announcement was removed the same day. Career Jones joined Slipknot in early 1996, replacing original guitarist Donnie Steele after the recording of the band's debut demo ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot ( ) is an American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, former vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray (American musician), Paul Gray. After several lineup changes in its early years, the band settled on nine members for more than a decade: Crahan, Gray, Joey Jordison, Craig Jones (musician), Craig Jones, Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Chris Fehn, and Jim Root. Slipknot is well known for its attention-grabbing image, aggressive style of music, energetic and chaotic live shows. The band rapidly rose to fame following the release of their debut album Slipknot (album), ''Slipknot'' in 1999. The 2001 follow-up album, ''Iowa (album), Iowa'', although darker and brutal in tone, made the band more popular. After a brief hiatus, Slipknot returned in 2004 with ''Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)'', before going on another hiatus and returning in 2008 with its fourth album, ''All Hope Is Gone'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocoder
A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''vo''ice and en''coder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was invented in 1938 by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs as a means of synthesizing human speech. This work was developed into the channel vocoder which was used as a voice codec for telecommunications for speech coding to conserve bandwidth in transmission. By encrypting the control signals, voice transmission can be secured against interception. Its primary use in this fashion is for secure radio communication. The advantage of this method of encryption is that none of the original signal is sent, only envelopes of the bandpass filters. The receiving unit needs to be set up in the same filter configuration to re-synthesize a version of the original signal spectrum. The vocoder has also been used extensively as an electronic musical instrument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Step Sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins. Overview Modern sequencers The advent of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) in the 1980s gave programmers the opportunity to design software that could more easily record and play back sequences of notes played or programmed by a musician. As the technology matured, sequencers gained more features, such as the ability to record multitrack audio. Sequencers used for audio recording are called digital audio workstations (DAWs). Many modern sequencers can be used to control virtual instruments implemented as software plug-ins. This allows musicians to replace expensive and cumbersome standalone synthesizers with their software equ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monophonic Synthesizer
Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Instruments featuring polyphony are said to be polyphonic. Instruments that are not capable of polyphony are monophonic or paraphonic. An intuitively understandable example for a polyphonic instrument is a (classical) piano, on which the player plays different melody lines with the left and the right hand - depending on music style and composition, these may be musically tightly interrelated or may even be totally unrelated to each other, like in parts of Jazz music. An example for monophonic instruments is a trumpet which can generate only one tone (frequency) at a time, except when played by extraordinary musicians. Synthesizer Monophonic A monophonic synthesizer or ''monosynth'' is a synthesizer that produces only one note at a time, making it smaller and cheaper than a polyphonic synthesizer which can play multiple notes at once. This does not n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D-Beam Controller
The D-Beam is a Roland synthesizers interface that can control and manipulate sound and effects via the user's hand movements interacting with an infrared beam of light. Background The D-Beam was originally manufactured by Interactive Light, as a stand-alone unit, around 1996. It was then soon purchased by Roland Corporation, becoming trademarked and rebranded as D-Beam Controller for their own music equipment. It was then introduced on a larger scale through the Roland MC-505 in 1998, was further incorporated into a large number of Roland's grooveboxes, workstations, keyboards, and digital samplers over the years. The controller is usually mounted in the equipment's panel facing upwards, and senses the performer's hand (or other body part) at a height of up to 15" (~40 cm) or so above the device. Although controlled in a similar manner to a theremin, the operating principles are fundamentally different; the theremin uses capacitive sensing In electrical engineering, capaciti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internal Memory
Computer data storage or digital data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and Data storage, recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. The central processing unit (CPU) of a computer is what manipulates data by performing computations. In practice, almost all computers use a storage hierarchy, which puts fast but expensive and small storage options close to the CPU and slower but less expensive and larger options further away. Generally, the fast technologies are referred to as "memory", while slower persistent technologies are referred to as "storage". Even the first computer designs, Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and Percy Ludgate's Analytical Machine, clearly distinguished between processing and memory (Babbage stored numbers as rotations of gears, while Ludgate stored numbers as displacements of rods in shuttles). This distinction was extended in the Von Neumann archite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zip Drive
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 megabytes, MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB. The format became the most popular of the superfloppy products which filled a Niche market, niche in the late 1990s portable storage market. However, it was never popular enough to replace the standard -inch floppy disk. Zip drives fell out of favor for mass portable storage during the early 2000s as CD-RW and USB flash drives became prevalent. The Zip brand later covered internal and external CD writers known as Zip-650 or Zip-CD, despite the dissimilar technology. Overview The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of the standard -inch floppy drive's convenience, but with much greater capacity options and with performance that is much improved over a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
