You can really only sample little sound bites, and tiny phrases.... not very good as a legit sampler... but hey, it's $450.00 (at guitar center) For those looking for something more than a drum-sampler, sequencer, yer' probably gonna be disappointed. For those looking to write beats, sequence, and "soft-core sample" this be the shit for you!!!!

Anyone know how to load samples from a Mac? Haven't heard of anyone doing this yet. Any experience with the Zio Samrtmedia readers? They are cheap but do they work.

thanks. joe@bairtracks.com

Thanks to "Dedguy", I finally found out why I couldn´t import WAVs so far. I would appreciate, when somebody could explain me briefly the procedure, of how to Save and Load Samples to Smart Media Card using a Mac. Is there any Freeware Mac application to resample a 44.1 kHz-Sample to 32 kHz (for ES-1) and 22 kHz (for SU-200)?

First of all, no matter how much smartmedia you cram in that little slot, the onboard RAM is still only 4MB, which means 95 seconds mono at 32k. No downsampling to save space, either. You can save four banks to a cheap 16mb card, which is nice, but don't think you're getting an hour of sample time out of that expensive 64 meg card.

Second, without some amazing programming feat, you can't map midi note-on commands to pitch values. The box itself is not capable of it. The pitch bend is pretty cheezy, too. You can only assign one sample to one note value, so if you want that steinway, it ain't gonna happen with this box.

Third, the sequencer is a very capable, step-based, x0x style little beastie that's tons of fun to play with. If you like fruityloops, you'll like this box.

Finally, just because it's a little brushed-steel tabletop thing with blinky lights and a hip name doesn't mean it's only good for dance music. I've had it for a week and i've been using it for a slow, electric ballad... i haven't even programmed it in 4/4 yet. All said and done, damn cool box for the money. And i can velcro it to my esq-1.