microtonal/JI capable samplers/synths

These are questions I have for all who can/want to respond
to these questions from a techno-neophyte:

1) What are the easiest (read: "user-friendly"), affordable
(read: "under $2,000") samplers/synths around that
are microtonal/JI-capable?
I am especially interested in samplers.

2) Are there ones that are capable of being programmed
independently of any computer?
What programming system(s) is(are) available for these
samplers/synths?

3) Are these samplers/synths capable of storing how many
scale systems?
I would ideally like to have at least 5 scale systems on hand.

Thank you for your Time & Space in this musical Matter,
zHANg
zhang2323@aol.com

For information like this try the Microtonal Synthesis Web Site at
http://freeweb.pdq.net/jloffink/ .

John Loffink
microtonal@worldnet.att.net

> From: Zhang2323@aol.com
>Subject: microtonal/JI capable samplers/synths
>
>These are questions I have for all who can/want to respond
>to these questions from a techno-neophyte:
>
>1) What are the easiest (read: "user-friendly"), affordable
> (read: "under $2,000") samplers/synths around that
> are microtonal/JI-capable?
> I am especially interested in samplers.
>
>2) Are there ones that are capable of being programmed
> independently of any computer?
> What programming system(s) is(are) available for these
> samplers/synths?
>
>3) Are these samplers/synths capable of storing how many
> scale systems?
> I would ideally like to have at least 5 scale systems on hand.
>

I believe that the latest Emu Proteus (name/number?) also supports
user-definable scales, and indeed comes with several alternative tunings.
The price looks quite attractive, but I haven't yet had time to try one.

Met vriendelijke groet / Regards
Hans van Bemmelen
Anglo-American Theatre Group - AATG
The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel 00 31 70 354 1233
Fax 00 31 70 355 1573

<<I believe that the latest Emu Proteus (name/number?) also supports
user-definable scales...>> <snip>

The Kurzweils have the advantage over the Proteus series in that they can be
set to select their samples by virtue of the intended pitch rather than the
MIDI key number, which avoids 'chipmunking' and other side effect of playing
samples out of register. I ran into this problem on my Proteus/1. I
understand that this is still a problem even on their latest Morpheus.
Check with Emu Systems before buying one.

--Fred

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