Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Cross posted from the ampfea music bar...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces@... 
> [mailto:music-bar-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Aleix
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:52 AM
> To: 'ampfea.org music-bar'
> Subject: RE: Fw: Aeon's XL-7 list post
> 
> 
> > Tony Scharf wrote:
> >
> > I think EMU is in their death throws.  they know another 
> > proteus clone
> > is not going to save them, and they cant release a hardware sampler
> > (their true area of expertise ) because the market for them 
> is virtuely
> > dead.  
> >


> Hi,
> 
> I personally advice to stay away from any E-Mu box like this. 
> Does anyone
> remember the history behind the E-Mu APS soundcard? They sold 
> tons of cards
> and they discontinued the support of it after one year. The 
> card was released
> in 1999 and some months ago (in 2003), they released the 
> W2000/XP drivers
> (without any improvement on the features, of course).
> 
> Btw, I don't think that the hardware sampling market is dead although
> manufacturers must release really *fresh* boxes in order to 
> compete with
> software samplers. I'd like to see a Yamaha A5k with the same 
> disk-speed
> access of a computer, better computer integration  (some type of open
> filesystem like Linux's ext2) and with no-vaporware mLan support.
> 
> Bye.
> 
> 
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