From Tom Millar Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 03:26
Well, I was reading about Pro Tools DJ mixes and realized I can't come up with the hate for a "DJ" who uses DSP to mix tracks. So I can't really argue against someone using samples or samplers either, because this is more or less the same thing. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more I think I'd really enjoy it if I heard a sample from something of mine stuck in someone else's track. My dislike of samplers stems more or less from the innate fear I have that if I go and buy one for myself my music will immediately descend into conceptual in-joke hell and wank crap. Now I've used my computer for such much remanipulation and noisemaking I'm thinking about getting a sampler anyway, mostly for utility purposes, but what's the difference? What people have said is generally true; the tool/design matters little compared to the idea or feeling of the output. So fuck it; I'm never going to evangelize the sampler (a la Matthew Herbert) but there's no reason not to like it. Hell, I love Amon Tobin! Tom Disclaimer: none of this makes the chembros any more palatable.