Okay, first off I'll say I have an A4000 and a friend has an EMU E5000 ultra. Both machines have merits.
Why do you say the A5000 is dearer ? It's not made anymore and you can only buy it 2nd hand. First off the A5000 comes pretty well equiped and the output board only costs 130 quid. The EMU is expandable, but will you use them ? The expansion options are pretty expensive. I could waffle on but I won't .... The Yamaha series are quite good, the FX and features are pretty good. The disk speed problem has become annoying to me now after 2 years. I have a Volume which holds around 700 samples in 32meg and the time it takes to load this off an IDE disk is a little too slow. It's a perfectly useable sampler is all I'll say. But ..... if I could replace it with an EMU with 128meg, disks and an output board then I probably would. At the time the EMU worked out way too expensive, but now it's a serious contender. Which ever you get, you'll be able to use but to be honest the EMU just has an edge and class which the Yamaha doesn't. By the way Chords on the EMU are just a modulation matrix and the Yamaha comes pretty close. I'd also ask yourself if you really need an A5000 ? You may just need an A4000, if you could find an A4000 with some RAM, a hard disk and the output board for around 500 quid, go for it otherwise weigh up the EMU. If money is no object then I'd look at the EMU6400. Cheers Scott > > OK, first off, let me say I have no interest in being told which sampler > is objectively better. I know different people have different opinions and > work better with different machines, and so I want to draw from people's > subjective impressions of these machines to determine what *might* be > appropriate for me. Frankly, either of them would be a major step up at > this point (I'm using an expanded Akai S2000.) > > So here's some pros of the two machines. > > Yamaha A5000 > * Lots of good effects > * Internal resampling > * More sophisticated breakbeat manipulation > * KNOBS! > > Emu E5000 Ultra > * Cheaper > * Internal sequencer (useful!) > * CORDS (sounds neat) > * More expandable > > Basically, I can go either way. I guess my main criterion is tight MIDI > timing, although this isn't something the promotional literature is going > to tell you. Anyway, any comments would be welcome. > > -- > T.W.I.D.N. * http://www.nr.infi.net/~tagutcow/twidn.html > > > > --- > Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk > You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
