I love my OT, but it sounds pretty transparent and that’s not always the best thing. Does anybody use it alongside an old hardware sampler to get that old-school sound? Ideally, one would be able to use the 8 internal sampler tracks of the OT and use the MIDI tracks to control an outboard sampler of choice, but I suppose you could also just resample through it and then bounce back to the OT. Either way, it’s been hard for me to find a unit that ticks all these boxes:
- Sounds appropriately lo-fi, gritty, punchy, etc
- Doesn’t cost a fortune
- Isn’t a behemoth rack monster that takes up my whole desk
- Has decent enough storage to hold more than a few short samples without fiddling with SCSI and floppies
- Has enough multitimbral parts and polyphony to be triggered and p-locked by the OT sequencer
Filters and effects would be nice too, but not a must. The closest I can seem to find is the SP-202 or 303 from Boss, but I don’t know how it fares in the sound and MIDI control department when compared to something like an Akai S950 (which is, unfortunately, huge). Any thoughts?