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[xl7] Re: FLASH SIMM
2011-01-02 by Ian Lamb
Most likely, it is because they have a different hierarchy of values than you.
➢ that is still less than the original price for those ROMs and certainly worth it for about 500 new samples that are based in a hardware ROM, plus some presets to boot.
I paid less than that for a couple of ROMs from E-mu, but your point is well-taken here.
➢ There are plenty of ROMs for less than $130 out there and I would not wait on your music on the hope of something a few dollars cheaper, even if reusable/reloadable. When the universal Flash SIMM is available, it will be just one more tool, not the only tool. And there still needs to be beta tested prototypes on the Universal Flash SIMMs and software to load and translate common files and that seems still a while away....
Fair call – if one has need now, then choose and work with what is available now. That said, I can also understand and appreciate that many have an idea of and a rough plan for what could be accomplished with the arrival of a user-programmable Flash SIMM whose capabilities and function are a superset of anything previously offered by E-mu.
➢ I paid about $50 for my last Xtreme Lead ROM and that has plenty of material to work with....Emu has put much time and effort in squeezing so many samples into the 32MB.
That is one aspect of the E-mu ROMs that I hope to address with the user-programmable Flash SIMM – to have a waveform set that focuses on quality rather than quantity.
I very much like the wavesets in the VintagePro and the ProteanDrums ROMs, as well as the Audity2K portion of the XL-ROM, but the old Orbit and Phatt wavesets have too many single-cycles without enough multisampling to my ear.
➢ I have Flash ROMs with my own sounds using the Emu Flash SIMM and an Ultra sampler but have only been able to put a small fraction of the number of samples into the 32MB space so I still predominately use the commercial ROMs. There is so much processing available in the P2000/Command Station series that 2 people can use the same sample and create an entirely different sound and atmosphere....
I agree, but in the end, user choice as to the quality, quantity, and nature of samples brings the greatest potential power to the E-mu P2K systems.
cheers,
Ian