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#13817 - 06/19/00 06:23 AM
Re: EMU Ultra series
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Registered: 05/12/00
Posts: 189
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Thanks for the RE: fvicente,
I'm mostly interested in being able to generate the sounds of "real" instruments. This will be my primary/first tone generating box, I think, and I need something that will give me some orchestral sounds (strings, brass, woodwinds) as well as some world sounds (sitar, reeds, etc.) I'm not looking to take this live, so load times aren't critical...but I don't want to be sitting around for too long, either.
If I plop in 64 MB of RAM, am I going to be waiting awhile? I'm planning on having the following config:
PC with SCSI host adapter 4 Gig 5400 RPM SCSI HD (formatted for sampler) 8x SCSI CD-ROM
I figure that, since this is my first sampler, I should go with the 6400 to get the 8 CD library as a starter kit. How are samples on the net? Are the good ones hard to find?
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#13818 - 06/19/00 09:23 PM
Re: EMU Ultra series
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Registered: 01/25/99
Posts: 149
Loc: Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Hi Digiboy,
Well, the E-mu's are one of the best samplers around for generating real instruments. While if you were planning on doing mostly drums and bass with it, I would recommend an Akai, the E-mu's are much better IMHO at generating real-sounding instruments.
As you can probably guess, the samples are very important here. You are not going to get great orchestral sounds by searching on the internet. There are some usable sounds on the E-mu CD's supplied but, IMHO, they don't compare with the commercial orchestral sound libraries available. The Kirk Hunter Virtuoso strings, Peter Siedlaczek Advanced Orchestra and Miroslav Vitous Orchestral libraries are great. However, they are quite expensive too and one of these libraries by themselves won't do it all for you.
To get started, there is an orchestral CD by Prosonus (I think it is distributed by Big Fish but I'm not sure) is not bad. It's not in the same league as those others but it can get you started anyway. In terms of world sounds, you can probably find some adequate ones on the internet.
What you will want to do is save some of your most-used banks to the hard drive as loading times will be substantially reduced compared to your CD Rom. While 4 GB is not very much, it should be fine for now as you can leave samples you don't use very often on the CD to load from there.
BTW, you'll want to load up your sampler with 128 MB of RAM eventually. Orchestral sounds (good ones anyway) take up lots of memory.
HTH and good luck, Fernando
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#13821 - 06/20/00 01:06 PM
Re: EMU Ultra series
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Registered: 01/25/99
Posts: 149
Loc: Port Moody, BC, Canada
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Hi Digiboy,
You're in for a surprise. The Emu Ultra series support both IDE and SCSI disks. I believe that there is room only for one hard drive internally (after adding the HD mounting kit). You can have an IDE HD internally and connect SCSI HD's and CD Roms via the SCSI interface on the back.
Paul,
I did not mean to imply that the E-mu is unusable for drum sounds. This is purely a matter of taste. In some situations, the E-mu will be better than an Akai for drum sounds. However, I have found that for pop, hip-hop, etc. type of drum sounds, the Akai has a certain crispness and punch that I like for those styles. When doing jazz-style drums, the E-mu has a warmer tone which sometimes lends itself better.
Don't get too hung up on the gear itself. At the end of the day it should be what works best for you. When you look at it, these samplers are just boxes with circuit boards and wires inside of them.
Good luck Digiboy. Fernando
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