Melosoftron vs GigaSampler

I use melosofton in my studio, and it works great. I have also used GigaSampler which is a much higher end sampler. Giga sampler has a tighter responce, but it costs $700 +. Melosoftron is much easier to use, and since I track using a DAW, I can always slip a track back in time to correct the latency problem. Melosoftron is Great for Workstation based studios such as mine, but for Tape based tracking, I wouldn't recomend it (since you can't compensate for the Latency of the responce). For those that are not clear on what it does, Melosoftron allows you to take a wav file, and use it as an instrument. I normally use 44.1 Stereo files, and feed them back into my paris DAW via the SPDIF output of my AWE64 Gold, and I get HI-Quality tracking without the analog hissing. GigaSampler sounds a little better, but you have to have a dedicated 266+ MMX unit with High End hard drives, and 64+ Mb RAM. I run Melosoftron on the same unit as my PARIS Workstation (Which is convenient, because all of the MIDI routing is internal to the unit), and I have no problems. 200 MHz (Non MMX) with 96 Mb RAM.

By the way the PARIS is a great workstation!!!

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