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	Cool Stuff to do with the ASR-X by Yuichiro Nagai
	<< Are you saying that I can open the files that I sample with my X directly in my pc? >> "YeeeUP. Mac too, if you have PC Exchange enabled." << I would save the sounds to a removable drive and open the sound with say Sound forge, Cool Edit or another Win based editor and it would load directly? >> "Exactly. Once you look at an X disk on the computer I think you'll understand the X better. All the larger formats Sessions, All...are actually "pointers" or instructions on what to load. They save the names and paths of the files needed to complete that file. All raw samples are in the WAVE folder, and can easily be opened in every MAC/PC editor I've used. Beware though, there is some problem with Loop points in Sound Forge and I'm sure there could be other issues involving imbedded info... I think Garth mentioned this. (Note: ICHi is referring to 'ASR-X bug with Sound Forge-saved AIFF files'.) If anything just crop, normalize, tweak and name your stuff in SF, then save and take the data back to the X for looping and the synth programming stuff. That alone saves huge amounts of time and keeps you organized. Basically I take 2 approaches, use the best tool for the job. If I'm doing stuff on the fly, trying to keep the vibe, I do everything on the X since it's so quick. Especially the resampling and sketching on the sequencer... When it comes to the clinical sample editing. You know making some drum kits from sampling CD's, Beat matching your samples to do a remix, assembling the raw materials for the expression session. That stuff is just so much easier to do on a PC with ACID and SF." << I would love to be able to edit my samples using my 17" monitor >> "You can do it, go to town. Here's some other cool uses I've found for the X. When I'm tracking on something with limited tracks, say a VS. I try to record as much of the stuff as I can to the X. Especially vocals. Slapping them back into place is really a piece of cake, and sometime I come up with weird phrasings that the vocalist would never had come up with on there own. Background vocals are also good to do on the X. You can really easily, double vocals using the copy params, tweak a little filter, and fine tuning to get a little phasing for reality, noise to pitch in small increments works wonders too...have dry versions, wet versions, filtered version of the same sample... It's also nice to be able to "sequence" background vocals to get that really Tight sound. With midi and by editing the sample start you can get the timing of all the parts really stinking tight. Also the X sounds better then the VS and most PC sound cards which is another reason I like to use it as a recorder. My X puts in some serious duty as a FX box. I got it set up so when I go into MIX mode it's available on a send return on my DAW. I'm sure most of you don't use your floppy very much, here's a good use for it. I save all my FX presets as sessions. This is the only way to save em. Since this file contains no wave data they're tiny, and load very quickly even on Floppy... So my floppy always has a disk in it, full of FX Sessions. Makes sense for me since I'm not going be using the X as a sampler when I'm mixing. If your going to do this I'd suggest getting yourself a patchbay. I like the patchbay because it makes it easy to connect the X to whatever CD, MD, DAT, turntable, my other synths, my DAW outputs...whatever. Sorry for the longness... Hope some of it useful. Best, ICHi" Yuichiro Nagai Director of Marketing E-MU / ENSONIQ Remote Office-TOKYO Ensoniq Japan Incorporated. URL: http://www.at-m.or.jp/~ensoniq [email protected] m.or.jp

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