With the Expert Sleepers ES-8 as an audio interface, I can basically grab and rip any audio on my PC so there's a huge potential for samplers, granulators and loopers. But there's also the risk of getting a copyright claim when you record/sample something that's owned by a big name or label and decide to upload it. I know some artists have large teams protecting their works. The economy of music is changing and the audience expects music to be free. But you can't create a great new album if you can't even break even.
So if you ever copy original sound sources, make sure you use it fair and transformative.
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I mention ground loop noise in this video, which was terrible. Balanced cables did not fix it. It's a USB problem that occured after I had to change my PC's water cooler. So something's in there that's not right. The problem does not occur when recording from an analog case, but in this set the ES-8 (USB) gets sound from the PC and it returns to my audio interface (also USB). My speakers also have balanced cables and were completely silent before the PC upgrade. Now they pick up all kinds of interference from the PC. I hope I'll be able to find/solve this issue :(.
