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Subject: OT: EMU Samplers

From: "Grant Davies" <grant@...>
Date: 2001-04-12

We have an Ultra E6400 and a regular E6400, one big bonus for us on the
Emu's is everytime EMU upgrade their samplers they offer an upgrade path to
owners of the older samplers if you are in the pro range (EOS samplers).
Our E6400 Ultra is 5 years old and was just a basic E6400 when we originally
bought it. If we had gone the AKAI route we would have ended up buying a
new sampler every couple of years.

BTW I just picked up an MS2000R and I love it, the sounds are really rich,
the filters are really nice too. I'd say the 12db filter is not as good as
the An1x filter but the 24db filter sounds richer. Its extremely easy to
program, and the step sequencer is really easy to use. I'm very happy with
the unit.



Cheers,
Grant Davies
b l u e t u b e p r o d u c t i o n s
http://www.bluetube.com
The new Bluetube Productions Sampler, coming June 2001

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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