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

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, James Ulibarri wrote:

> Flash roms would be cool for convenience and portability. But over all 
> tone to me is the most important.  I've read people saying that the 
> A5000 is a sound designers wet dream with it's 6 effects blocks.  And to 
> think that I am gonna have it piped through a dedicated Ensoniq DP4 with 
> it's 4 parallel effects also.  I have a feeling it's gonna be the cat's 
> ass.  I've read the endless encoders can go bad and the load times are 
> slow.  I have a great tech to do the encoders and the unit has an 
> internal hard drive already and I won't be using with a PC.  Just old 
> school style.  No .wave dragging and dropping from a DAW.  I just want 
> to keep it raw.
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you should be very happy with an a5k.

i was happy with an a4k, but now i'm leaning towards pre-production of 
samples in audacity/ubuntu-studio and i'm looking forward to loading those 
samples into a USB/flash-ROM (and then selling the a4k).

i've never been hung up on tone. the way i look at it, i'm doing original 
electronic music. if i were trying to emulate an orchestra, guitar, piano, 
etc then i'd be concerned about tone, but working primarily with distorted 
squelchy blips and bleeps and noises allows me to not care about tone. 
i'll leave that to whoever wants to emulate me ;) and i've got plenty of 
outboard effects boxes when needed.


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