Mc101.
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Really? Zencore has real instruments aswell?
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I’m already looking for a good 5th generation mini near me👀
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I put my rarely-used electric guitar, in its case, into a mirror box for my recent in-town move. I don’t suppose this counts.
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It can, If you can sequence it while it’s in the box
Roland Integra would be the standard for this kind of thing, right? Modern version of the ol’ rack GM modules. Pricey though.
Myself, I’d probably give the Tangerine a go - spend some time cooking up multisamples in a DAW with nice softsynths etc - seems designed for this kind of use case, if smallness is bit factor.
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Challenge accepted
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Yea, it still is a great option.
But to be honest, as I am laying in bed, having to touch a freakin vibrating screen that slowly suck the life out of me, it really made me rethink that iPad idea. I just hate having to deal with screens that rot my already weakend brain.
Doesn’t the tangerine have a touchscreen aswell if I am not mistaken?
MC-101. It is my goto when I need small and a variety of instruments.
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ZEN-Core is the next generation of the JV rompler lineage, just with VA added on so it can do SH/Juno/Jupiter tricks as well. So yes, it has “real” instruments in there. You can check them out for free with the free version of Zenology.
If you want just the rompler sounds in a box, though, hard to get smaller or more affordable than a JV-1010 for $200ish. Depending on how “retro” you want the flutes and horns and such, maybe also look at a SoundCanvas? SC-55 and SC-88 are cheap, still reasonably small, and have those DOS- and Playstayion-era sounds, respectively.
The Integra is an option, but is big, expensive, and doesn’t offer much over the JV-1010 outside of its SuperNATURAL sounds. If want a really expressive piano, electric piano, string, and brass, the Integra has the edge there.
But even SuperNATURAL isn’t as good as pianoteq and the various SWAM Brass/String/etc. plugins on iOS. If what you want is “real” modeled instruments, and not fancy faked samples, there’s really no substitute.
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Yeah, it does. And I’m unlikely to go the 1010 route myself because I don’t like touchscreens and I don’t like tiny instruments. It does seem to be designed exactly for your use case, though.
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digitakt pairs well with Blofeld - you can have 8 sample tracks and 8 instrument tracks using multimode - it could be what you’re looking for
pioneer as1 is all instrument