Deane ... I hope the East Coast gets them before Texas!!! ... but if not, a sample of the styles as you've been doing for the 950 would be great ...

PS ... I cant believe I'm getting thus excited over a kb OTHER than a technics ...

Best way to even out the volumes of different recordings without actually changing the recording (like compressing or limiting which will make the recording sound a bit different) is to take your MP3's, and 'Normalize' them all. Some kind of mp3 editor will probably be needed (I'm a Mac man, so probably of no help).

Normalizing makes sure that the loudest peak of each recording hits 0dB. If they all hit 0db at their loudest, this should make for a pretty even comparison.

Hi mirza

Its great to finally hear something about using samples , it could decide if I buy one or not, could you tell me where did you get the samples that you loaded and in which format are they?, I also would like to load my own percussion kit and my own accordions and trumpets if I bought one, have you tried loading any .KMP or .KSF or .WAV files , please share anymore you find out about the sample feature, thanks!

Hi Deane

Record as a WAV file with the levels peaking just below the red, (Some of you previous posts have exceeded this and caused distortion/ compression artefacts) then transfer the files over to your PC and use Audacity to normalise them http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and also convert them to mp3. (Use 256K settings when converting to mp3 to minimise the losses incurred when converting to mp3 or alternatively convert to FLAC as this is a lossless compression format)

Hope this helps

Bill

for Daniel
I used to have pa800. And all samples from pa800 I loaded with no problem.
I do not kno about kmp or ksf ..I haven't had time to try that yet.For good drum samples go to dynamix audio.They make a big difference in sound .

Thanks for your answer mirza , I guess I´ll have to start looking for PA800 samples , I really hope there´s a way of using my own samples of my acoustic instruments that I play.

When I have some time I will try kmp..
What kind of music you play Daniel??

I´m from the north of México and play mostly regional music , Colombian style cumbias , and norteño music ( which is similar to the polkas ) , also cha chas , danzon, etc. I play the piano and button diatonic accordions and the sounds I use the most are pianos, accordions, trumpets, saxes ,guitars and sounds from other Korg and Roland synths ( M1 , D50 , Fantom X), and i´d like to use my own set of latin percussions, congas, cowbells, guiros and timbales, here are a couple of videos of me using the One Man Band Originals arranger software using Kontakt samples for the sounds , this is what I would like to achieve using only the PA600 instead of the laptop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLX73EFwaH4&feature=g-upl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUxHNAUwFM&feature=g-upl

Yes I have him but haven't had time to play it yet. Will play it tomorrow and let you know what I think of it.

... waiting ... IMpatiently ...