Koblo Stella 9000 (Sampler Player)

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Stella is 8-note polyphonic, works in real time, integrates with Steinberg's Cubase VST 4.1 MIDI + Audio sequencer using its new VST 2 technology, provides full MIDI control of parameters (plus transmission of on-screen parameter adjustments over MIDI), and can record its output as audio to hard disk. It offers a couple of basic sample-manipulation tools, a wide range of synthesis facilities, and an arpeggiator. Last, but certainly not least in these times of aggravatingly ever-increasing computer requirements, it demands a relatively modest minimum of a 120MHz Power Mac (it's not yet available for PCs) and 16Mb of free RAM. This requirement would increase, however, if Stella were run alongside other Koblo applications or a sequencer.

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     In common with all Koblo's products, Stella 9000 is a 'document' that runs under the company's Tokyo real-time audio and MIDI-processing engine. This backbone harnesses your computer's DSP power to run Stella, Vibra and Gamma, and since multiple 'documents' can be open at once, synth, sampler and drum machine could be active simultaneously if the host computer can handle it. There's currently no way to sync the three together, but Koblo say that's coming in a pre-Christmas update.