Yes... please give us a hybrid sampler, something that will compete in it's own way with the coming Waldorf Quantum Synthesizer.
There are things I do not like about Waldorf products... they usualy have crap FX onboard, and the Quantum will only have 8 voices, which I find to be too few... With the REV2 out at the price it has, I think it should be possible to make a hybrid sampler keyboard with 16 Curtis filters as well, something I'd really like to see.
What I'd like to see such a keyboard feature is:
8/16 voice options like the REV2 (Curtis filters/amplifiers would be fine, and probably more cost effective)
Minimum 2 sample oscillators per voice
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A/B Layer configuration, so you can use two voices for stereo applications
Built in FX like on the REV2
a "Character section" like on the P12, but with the added abillity to do different algorithmic stuff between the two oscillators (like FM, AM, and other crazy sample mangling stuff etc.)
Granular & wavetable sampling playback capability of the oscillators
SD card storage of everything (supporting Gigabytes of storage space)
Minimum 64MB of sample RAM per "project"
Big display for editing, and an intuitive user interface that inspire you to actually USE IT, instead of using software editors.
The usual comprehensive modulation matrix of course
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One thing I'd like to see in a sampler is this: Make it possible for an oscillator to continuously play another sample on each keypress, chosen randomly among a set list of samples, but never playing the same sample twice in a row... the reason for this feature is, that it would give some really nice possibilities with both percussion and instruments alike... one of the major problems with samplers is that they sound static because they always fire the same sample... with this technique, you could have for example, 10 different sampled versions of an analog kick drum, or an acoustic instrument, and have every key hit sound a little different... would make the sound much more organic and dynamic.
well... I guess that was just a little dream written down here... I hope I'll see such a device some day...