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I posted the following question on the korg forum just to check that the Pax can be used in the way that Hellboy wants to use it, in particular sampled drum loops
"can someone answer this question for me. Suppose i wanted to load say 30 different 8-16 bar drum loops on my pa1x. Is it possible to hold all 30 at the same time within the PAX 32mb ram limit ? Does this sound feasable ? If this is possible, is there anyway to then save the sampled loops to play within a style for immediate playback ? can those styles be then saved in songs or midifiles and used in the song book ? Is there any time delay in switching from one drum loop to the next by secting a new song? "
it was confirmed to me that depending on the sample loop size it was feasable to hold up to 8 completely different sampled 8 bar loops within the Pa1x 32 mb memory. These loops can be assigned to styles or midi files and saved under the song book function for instant recall, no time delay. Each sampled loop can be resampled so as to slice the loop and use a particular drum sample to create your own drum kits and reprogramme the loop to create your own loops without requireing a completely new raw sample.There fore you could have potentially many more drum loop for performance purposes instantly without the need to load new sample data. Further more you can edit the sampled drum kits and layer them with the internal sounds to create new drum sounds and save them and use them in a style just like any other internal sound etc.
Obviously all of this is subject to the original sample size data but drum loops and individual drum hits dont use huge amounts of sample time like for example a sampled piano.
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