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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.


Bj\ufffdrn 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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