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Originally Posted by cookie_365
Wasn't that the sampler the size of a house (and the price of one too) with a light pen so you could 'draw' your sounds? Remember seeing one of those on The Tube and being totally amazed 
Nowadays, they use them on the tube instead - as barriers to slow the trains down if they run red signals ...  |
Yes it was indeed, with a separate card for each voice (8 in total on the Series 1). First used by Peter Gabriel on his "3" album then by all and sundry in studios round the world during the 80s. You might remember Nick Rhodes taking his series 3 on tour with Duran Duran, in fact, I think he still does for the pose value. Needless to say, the quality of the samples you could store on an 8" floppy weren't exactly hi-fi (8 bit 24KHz to be precise).