Emulator II samples (tones) from the OMI library burnt to an Emu Flash Rom would actually sound pretty cool with the Command Station. I go back and forth wanting to try an Ultra sampler and blank rom. I may upload a sample pack so someone can try it in there Ultra sampler and CS. Depeche Mode wasn't actually all that magical if you hear half of this library. Lots of stock, untreated tones here in their old trax. Before Alan Wilder's departure I mean.
I'll try the A5000 first and report back.
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
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.
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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