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flash roms

2010-12-25 by James Ulibarri

Anyone else besides Duncan who is successfully having any luck with burning their owns Emu flash roms?
I think this might be my next project. And I mean with an Ultra sampler and blank 16mb/32mb flash roms.

I know this has came up before regarding which unit has the better filters, etc. An Ultra sampler or the CS?
Does anyone have any feedback on this? My initial thoughts would be the Ultra sampler because it may have more processing
power, but I am not sure at all. They could have similar processors, etc.

I have cooled out on the whole Emu vintage verses things semi modern machines like the Command Station. They both have their strengths. But I need to get this going soon. It9;s either this or a Yamaha A4000/A5000 sampler. I need tons of effects and clockable tempo synced LFO's, etc.

Anyone selling any Emu working flash roms?

Re: [xl7] flash roms

2010-12-25 by Atom Smasher

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, James Ulibarri wrote:

> It's either this or a Yamaha A4000/A5000 sampler.
==========

the weaknesses of the AxK samplers are load (and save) time and SCSI. the 
strengths are effects and having each key within a patch playing any 
sample.

on-board editing is also nice, but mostly it's stuff that most people 
would do in software before loading the samples into the sampler.

also consider how many outputs you need; if the AxK has the expansion 
board; the feasibility of outboard effects...


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Re: [xl7] flash roms

2010-12-26 by Paul Nagle

On 25/12/2010 23:06, Atom Smasher wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, James Ulibarri wrote:
>
>> It's either this or a Yamaha A4000/A5000 sampler.
> ==========
>
> the weaknesses of the AxK samplers are load (and save) time and SCSI. the
> strengths are effects and having each key within a patch playing any
> sample.

More weaknesses include the frankly bizarre and unintuitive OS and the 
fact you can't auto-load on power-up, so every time you switch on you're 
menu-diving. Hated my A5000 with a passion; YMMV.

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Re: [xl7] flash roms

2010-12-26 by Atom Smasher

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Paul Nagle wrote:

> More weaknesses include the frankly bizarre and unintuitive OS and the 
> fact you can't auto-load on power-up, so every time you switch on you're 
> menu-diving. Hated my A5000 with a passion; YMMV.
==================

the OS is what it is. if you're accustomed to akai or emu, then yeah, it's 
weird.

i'm looking forward to having a USB-flash-ROM for the cs/p2k, and then 
i'll be happy to sell my A4000.


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Re: [xl7] flash roms

2010-12-26 by James Ulibarri

Yeah, I spent sometime with the PX-7 tonight and did about 5 hours with it and put the synth engine through it's paces. But I am not gonna be messing with the flash roms after all. The engine is just too thin for my kind of dirty dub techno. It's actually thinner than software. I did some A/B tests with a brand new Allen and Heath mixer and Emu monitors. No... pass.

Hey, it makes a great Ableton controller.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Paul Nagle wrote:

> More weaknesses include the frankly bizarre and unintuitive OS and the
> fact you can't auto-load on power-up, so every time you switch on you're
> menu-diving. Hated my A5000 with a passion; YMMV.
==================

the OS is what it is. if you're accustomed to akai or emu, then yeah, it's
weird.

i'm looking forward to having a USB-flash-ROM for the cs/p2k, and then
i'll be happy to sell my A4000.

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...atom

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of life and some fifty percent of fish caught from the
oceans is fed to cows, pigs, sheep, chickens etc in the
form of fish meal. It also takes about fifty fish
caught from the sea to raise one farm raised salmon."
-- Capt Paul Watson, A Very Inconvenient Truth