Well, it's not really my cup of tea, but kudos to you for putting together an EP using an Amiga assuming you are not running Octamed under Windows, that is... May I ask what other hardware you are using - perhaps a PC for sampling?
I doubt my old TechnoSound Turbo II sampler would sound terribly clean these days...and it would be a shame to ruin those lovely string samples with 8bit noise!
Cheers,
James
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