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el mae de las teclas
11-06-2003, 02:09 PM
Hi everyone!
I have a couple of questions I hope you can answer me.
Everytime before I play on my triton I wash my hands, but it seems to be impossible to avoid some of the metal parts that are more frequently in contact (around the buttons and controls) to get dirty of natural oil, sweat and who knows what else. I have the board for 3 months only, but my guess will be that whithin a longer time those parts are going to become really dirty and ugly. I think alcohol will surely remove that, but I don't know if it will damage the paint of something. Or if you know of some other product to clean those metal surfaces?

Ok, and #2 has to do with the sampler.
Probably I'm a heretic for lasting so much to actually play around with the sampler function but I've been short on time.
Here it goes: I know that what we sample isn't stored in the internal memory so it must be saved on a floppy (too small storage capacity), or on a hard drive with de SCSI (which I don't have). Then I was all happy when I learned that samples could be transformed into programs because it seemed like the solution to my problem since I could save it on any of the bank E program slots. But then it was the end of the world to me when I find out that after turning the power off and on, only the sample name was stored on the program I used, but no sound :cry:
I dodn't know If I did something wrong, but if this is how it works, how can I use the sampler in a practical way?
For example if I sample something for a live presentation, what shall I do? Take a laptop with a SCSI (both I don't have) and load the sample before the presentation? Or in case that it fits on a floppy, take 15 floppys and load them in the middle of the presentation?
Or maybe is just that the sampler wasn't intended to be used live. Tell me how you use your sampler.
Please don't be hard on me, I'm pretty new with this sampler feature. (And with the sequencer, but I will hold that for another moment :D )
Thank you a lot!!
Andrés

Thiago
11-06-2003, 04:32 PM
Hey!, I have the same problem with my Korg and I think everybody may have the same dirty area around the most pressed buttons.

I clean mine with a strange method, I use my eraser ( yes, that thing we use to remove the pencil grafiti) and /or a slightly wet towel paper...

NEVER USE ALCOHOL TO CLEAN YOUR BOARD, the alcohol steam may injury the internal electric parts and ruin all plastics in contact with it.

bye,

Thiago

el mae de las teclas
11-06-2003, 06:38 PM
THanks Thiago!! :shock:
You saved me from "alcoholize" my board! I'll try it.

Regarding the other part of the question?!! Someone?
Andrés

Scrap
11-06-2003, 07:55 PM
#1 - You don't need a laptop, just a SCSI hard drive and the EXB-SCSI interface for it. People load their samples before a performance like this - Jordan does this all the time pre-show. SCSI hard drives under 10GB are extremely inexpensive.

#2 - if your samples are over 1.44MB per program, you are oversampling, unless you need realistic sustain and release ala a piano program. Korg fits over 300 waveforms in under 32MB of ROM.

Regarding cleaning, I use Lenscrafters pre-moistened lens towelettes to clean around the buttons and keys. They're non-abrasive, contain no alcohol, and I wear glasses anyway, so why not have them serve a dual purpose. ;)

el mae de las teclas
11-06-2003, 08:31 PM
Hi Scrap! I should have asked you before, even though I don't post much I always read all threads and I've noticed that you kind of master the synth world, specially with karma/triton.
Ok I will check out the SCSI thing!! That surely will do.
Thanks, Andrés
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