Hello. I just recently joined the board, and was expecting to hold off a while before posting anything. I got started looking at xx-7 E- mu's to replace an old Drumtracs that died and an SR-16 loaner, when I realized that the sequencing capabilities might let me automate my AKAI DPS recorder. The more I read, the more attractive the xx-7's became. Because I was really interested in good traditional drum/percussion sounds more than Techno/Hip-Hop, I decided to go ahead and get a PX-7, possibly adding the other ROMs later. Tomorrow I pickup the PX-7 at a UPS terminal; for the last two days, after purchasing it, I see that E-mu is going out of business!! Originally, I would have waited 'til I had some experience with the PX-7, and tried to bring something a bit more operational to the discussion (in my case it would have been lots of questions, not answers!) but now I really need to get a sense now of how reliable these are, what kind of service problems I might expect and, generally, just any information that would help me understand what I'm looking at if the warranty on this folds up immediately. It took me a while to arrive at the decision to purchase the PX-7, and it (and the XL/MP) just seem like amazing machines/instruments; this makes the death knell even more disconcerting. This whole thing has a deja vu quality about it. Last year, at almost this same time, I bought the AKAI, which turned up bad out of the box. Before I could get it repaired, AKAI went under - at least temporarily. A grim time, and inducing a little extra paranoia into this current situation for me. So, pardon my starting off on this topic, but I would appreciate your thoughts on the durability and longevity of the E-mu 7's. ...and I'm still really looking forward to it showing up tomorrow, regardless!! Thanks, Ken (BTW, I've got a closet full of Beta VCR equipment and a room full of old NeXT computers; you'd think I'd have learned a lesson somewhere along the line!) ;)
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Bad Timing?!?
2003-12-17 by kenrider@epowerc.net