Hi Digiboy,

I'll answer your question with another question. What do you want to do with it? It is a sampler and, by its nature, you must load samples into it. Unless you buy one of the ROMs available for it or create your own on flash ROM, you'll have to wait for the loading times.

Will you be using it live where you need instant access to sounds? Using it in the studio or for composing is great though. If this is your only sound source, you may want to go with a synth as well. CD Sample libraries take quite a bit of cash to build up. If you'll be sampling your own source material and you'll be using lots of loops and such, this will be okay too.

Look at your needs first and let that help you decide. I own a E5000 Ultra and love it. It is got an easy to get around OS which is stable and it sounds great. I have a bunch of other synths and modules though.

The only knock I have on it is the fx implementation. The FX implementation sucks. You can't have separate send levels for each multitimbral part. You can only have 4 separate fx send levels for each of the fx. They have a new fx board coming out sometime this summer (RFX-32) which looks like it will be amazing. You'll be able to run practically an effect on each multitimbral part! Hopefully the fx routing will be made a little more flexible at that time too.

Overall, I am extremely happy that I own one.

Fernando