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Subject: Re: [AN1x-list] Timbrality issue once more

From: RayMaxer <digil@...>
Date: 2001-04-12

Ops , I am sorry for my formatting.
Ray.

RayMaxer wrote:

> Bjorn - that's not truth about EMU's (or sampler's) disability to control the
> filter in real-time.
> AFAIK there a 'small' problem on EMU's (their ROMplers [Proteus 2K] too) that
> RESONANCE can't be changed
> while the note is on , but filter cutoff frequency can , of course.
> Also - as the sampler won't be your only instrument I'd never consider buying
> Platinum version.
> I was choosing and making a decision about the sampler during last 3 months I
> think <G>
> and I came down to E-MU Ultra 6400 and I am going to get it here (in Moscow -
> not the cheapest
> place to get music eq. too) for about 1650-1700 $ (new) in about a week and know
> what ? I think I get practically
> the same stuff as Platinum for my needs.
> Do you need more than 8 outs ? Do you need wordclock input ? Do you need 32 Midi
> INs ?
> Do you need more than 64 poly in the sampler ? and so on and so on ..
> Practically everything that is added in Platinum is not very useful for me.
> The only model I was / am taking into accound now is AKAI S3000XL , I think ,
> (though I find its limits really limiting)
> because of too much people saying to me that the 'coloring' of the sound on them
> is much smaller than on the new
> S5000/S6000 and Ultra E-MU's (the latest ones have a bit 'cheesy' sound as many
> pro users say). I am not taking
> 5000/6000's into account because of many problems people are telling about ,
> because of the UI which I think is not
> great for such a display and so on (and again , the sound).
> Here were my ideas.
> Good luck.
> Ray.
>
> Bjørn Standal wrote:
>
> > Hi again
> >
> > To round up this thread, I would like to thank all you guys for answering
> > and enlightening me on this subject. All responses where informative and I
> > have sort of decided to:
> >
> > 1. Get Cakewalk with audio-recording (think 9.0). Make complete songs on my
> > 303/Trinity/DJX and then assign selected tracks (e.g. the bassline-track
> > which originated from the 303) to the AN1X , one at the time, to record them
> > into Cakewalk. The last track designated for the AN1X can be used as regular
> > midi track for real-time tweaking.
> >
> > 2. Get a sampler. I haven't decided for soft or hard, but hard is more
> > likely. Somebody I know got the Emu E4 Platinum which is one monster of a
> > sampler, 128MB, 20GB, lots of effects, 20 CD's with samples, SCSI, and one
> > quadrillion outputs. One problem is it's price tag. He got it for about
> > $6250 new. (Prices on gear here in Norway are really terrifying). Another
> > thing about this sampler is (something I heard somewhere) that you can't do
> > real-time filtering. You have to "re-trig" the sample to make the new
> > filter-setting active. Don't know if it's true, but if it is, I would
> > consider that a tremendous limit.
> > Also considering Akai Sxxx, Yamaha A5000 and other Emu's (6400, Ultra
> > 6400)... But what I am looking for in a sampler is really that I can use it
> > as a sound module like any other synth, and fully control effects and
> > filters from within Cakewalk. Don't care about onboard sound-editing tools
> > as I do that kind of thing in Cool Edit or Recycle.
> >
> > Thanks again. Nice having you competent people around :-)
> >
> > And hey, don't talk down to the DJX.;-)
> >
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