Roland has a new 16 Pad sampler/workstation coming and the ACB modeling features I told you about is nothing compared to the other features they're talking about for this new hardware. Anyone who's impressed with their MPC's, Maschines and Push 2's are going to lose their minds when the NAMM presentation is made. What I did see was the video that is going to be shown at NAMM 2016 by Roland announcing the new product and probably later on YouTube like they did with their AIRA line of products.
source: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/11490769-post41.html
here´s more:
source: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/11487511-post1.htmlRoland will take sampling workstations to another level with their ACB technology.
Models include:
Emu SP-1200
Emu Emax
Emu Emax 2
Emu ESI-32
Emu ESI-4000
Korg SDD-2000
Akai MPC-60
Akai MPC-3000
Ensoniq Mirage
Ensoniq ASR-10
Ensoniq ASR-X
Sequential Circuits Studio 440
Yamaha SU700
Casio SK-1
Casio RZ-1
Casio FZ-1
Roland W-30
Roland SP-808
Roland SP-303
Roland SP-404
the new sampler/workstation groovebox will emulate all of the above 20 (!) samplers sound-wise!!!
the fa-06/08´s internal sampler is cool except for the lack of time stretch, bpm detect and multisample edit. there´s one dedicated sampler track within the fa´s 16-track sequencer. you can stream 4 stereo or 8 mono samples from the sd card simultaneously. the new groovebox will perform way better in these regards, that´s for sure.
gee, i´m so glad that roland – as one of the big three (japanese) manufacturers – is finally back in the game of grooveboxes. the os will be stable as a rock. akai staffer pete goodliffe is a good programmer, but to have only one guy for maintenance and debugging won´t do the job properly imo. roland´s team is way bigger and therefore their machines are more reliable imo. i really hope they implement fantom g´s super-easy phrase list into the new box. i´d buy it in a second.
first ableton with push 2 and now roland... boy, akai has to put more weight behind its flagship mpc efforts. they should set a target shipment date of early 2016 for the standalone machine w/windows embedded imo. but my guess is they´re all hiding in the panic room of the cumberland headquarters right now.