Hi,

Personally I believe any suggestion that the Akai is better at drums and bass sounds is unfounded. Have you tried and E4 along side an S5000? This is a myth.

You do not need a SCSI drive for the Ultra series, you can fit an internal EIDE drive. The internal EIDE drive is very, very quick and far outperfroms anything you will get over the SCSI 2 interface.

Paul