NemeSys Ships NCS44 Rack-Mount Sampler512-voice, 100-gigabyte sampler in a 4U rack
space
 November 22, 1999
NemeSys Music Technology, Inc. today began shipping a digital sampling system
with unprecedented sampling storage capacity and up to 512 voices of polyphony,
all housed in a single 4U rack mounted chassis.
Based
on the award-winning GigaSampler technology, the NCS44 boasts 100 gigabytes of
sampling (expandable), 512 voices, 64 MIDI channels, and 64 output channels of
16-, 20- or 24-bit audio. All voices are hard disk based, instantly playable,
and up to 4.3 gigabytes in size each – allowing for near-instantaneous loading
of massive sample sets and instruments.
By leveraging Conexant’s (formerly Rockwell Semiconductor) patented EndlessWave™
technology, the NCS44 streams samples in real-time from each of its four hard
drives. This allows instruments and recordings that far exceed the limitations
of RAM-based hardware and software tools. Instruments no longer need to squeeze
into 128 or even 256 megabytes of RAM – full articulation and performance
response characteristics can be preserved in each sampled instrument – with
sizes often exceeding 1 gigabyte, as in the popular GigaPiano soundware, which
is included with each unit.
"To put things into perspective, you can have over 350 times the sampling
capacity of any other sampler without having to restrict any one of the 512 voices
to a small, RAM-based memory footprint," said Jim Van Buskirk, President
and co-founder of NemeSys Music Technology, Incorporated. "Coupled with four
times the polyphony and assignable MIDI channels of other samplers, there is no
longer any need for music scoring professionals to fill rooms with outdated, proprietary
samplers."
The NCS44 also boasts powerful networking capabilities, allowing it to co-exist
on LANs with PCs running GigaSampler or GigaSampler LE, as well as accessing high-bandwidth
sample servers, via standard Ethernet networks.
Professionals in the music industry have enthusiastically received first-run
units of this powerful sampler.
"Not only do I have a software sampling tool in the GigaSampler that
is magnitudes past anything I've ever used, I have it in a box that gives me 512
voice polyphony and 100 gigabytes of hardware sampling power," emphasized
David Kahne, award-winning producer for Sugar Ray, Sublime, and Fishbone. "For
the first time, the true potential of digital sampling has been realized. I'm
blown away by the sheer power of this box!"
NemeSys is also leveraging its expertise in system design to configure scalable
hardware solutions that enable the full potential of the GigaSampler technology.
Accordingly, the NCS4x series is available in configurations of 512-, 384-, or
256-voice polyphony.
Leading sample library companies like Q Up Arts, Sampleheads, Miroslav Vitous,
Best Service, and ZeroG are rapidly producing world-class titles that take advantage
of the enhanced GigaSampler technology. Since its introduction last year, over
50 sample libraries have been released in native GigaSampler format. Combined
with GigaSampler’s ability to convert and load Akai S-series samples (via
the included S-Converter software), the NCS4x series boasts one of the most extensive
arrays of available sound sets in the industry.
For more information, visit NemeSys on the web at www.nemesysmusic.com.
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