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Simply put, Mach Five is a sampler; it plays back existing samples. MX4 is a synthesizer.beaudette wrote:Sorry for the newbie question, but what's the difference between these two packages?
MachFive is a SAMPLE PLAYER! Samplers can record; M5 can not!chrispick wrote:Simply put, Mach Five is a sampler; it plays back existing samples. MX4 is a synthesizer.beaudette wrote:Sorry for the newbie question, but what's the difference between these two packages?
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I think this distinction was more applicable in the hardware-only days of samplers. Now that soft samplers exist in DAW environments, they don't need to conduct recording themselves. That you can key-assign home recorded sounds (or any sound you can grab and format) in MachFive makes it sampler enough for these days.MrVideo wrote:MachFive is a SAMPLE PLAYER! Samplers can record; M5 can not!chrispick wrote:Simply put, Mach Five is a sampler; it plays back existing samples. MX4 is a synthesizer.beaudette wrote:Sorry for the newbie question, but what's the difference between these two packages?
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