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Roland MS-1 Sampler

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Manufacturer URL http://www.rolandus.com/
Ease of Use 8.4 (10 responses)
Features 5.8 (10 responses)
Expressiveness/Sounds 6.9 (8 responses)
Reliability 7.7 (9 responses)
Customer Support 4.8 (8 responses)
Overall Rating 7.6 (8 responses)
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Product: Roland MS-1 Sampler
Price Paid: US $100 used
Submitted 12/19/2000 at 04:49am by joskamp
Email: none

Ease of Use : 8
I've got the original sofware release, no patches or upgrades have been run at all.
The MS-1 has just a few pads, a scrolling wheel and a tiny LC-Display.
To change settings or variables, just use the scrolling wheel and some pads. It's really easy. The menu structure isn't very deep, so you won't get lost there.

Features : 4
The MS-1 has about half a minute of CD-quality internal memory.
Samples from this internal memory can be played more at the time.
Samples from a PCMIA type 2 memory card can be played only 1 at the time, which is quite a shame.
No effects available.
Editing options are: inserting start points, end points, loop points.
Disappointingly, the editing scale is represented in samples, rather than milliseconds.
The MS-1 has an internal sequencer. I don't use it.
I only use MIDI in, it works a treat.

Expressiveness/Sounds : 6
Sound quality can be quite good, if you use the highest sample rate available

Reliability : 8
The MS-1 is a reliable machine.
There's not much to break.

Customer Support : 5
Roland doens't host products this old on their website.
Why?

Overall Rating : No Opinion
It is a 'bare essentials-' sampler, samplers just don't get any simpler. Or cheaper.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy Yamaha's SU 200.


Product: Roland MS-1 Sampler
Price Paid: US $100 used
Submitted 09/11/1999 at 04:03pm by Phill Bonet
Email: voidjunkee<at>hotmail dot com

Ease of Use : 7
This sampler is very,very,very basic. it has about 52 sec. of sampling on it at normal sampling rate(without memory cards) and is quite simple to use, although I still needed the manual here and there. the sample editing is done with numbers (example:start 0000 end 0012)which is sort of frustrating.

Features : 3
It has no effects just sampling, but it does have a so-so sequencer on it for the samples, I found this useful. it has 2 internal memory banks and 3 external memory banks. the external bank are run by memory cards that are so hard to find it makes the unit not worth buying but if you do find memory cards please let me know about it.

Expressiveness/Sounds : 4
It has 4 sampling rates long2(crapy but gives you more time) long1 (less crappy) standard (a good rate 52 min.) and high (realy good but less time) you can loop raw sounds and is good for at least that, Hey I still use it.

Reliability : 7
It's fairly reliable I use it on my gigs, but definitley not as my main sampler, the MIDI capabilities aren't bad and its survived the rough times.

Customer Support : 1
I tried to call about the memory cards and they were jerks if at best telling me they didn't make them any more and tough luck, but from diffrent people I learned that that there is a company that makes compatible mem. cards (still haven't found them)

Overall Rating : 4
I wouldn't buy it again but up to know its been reliable enough so as not to complain. I've probaly had it for a good 2 1/2 years or less ? although for the price I'd save up and get the Boss Dr.sample because at least it's got effects.

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