Emax

Jammie,

The sound was certainly better, richer at one time.  I'm very  
concerned to get a higher quality of sound back again.

I listened last night to Eurythmic's "1984" soundtrack, and the  
sampling was so rich and so pure and so powerful!
I *wish* I knew what Dave Stewart was using as his techniques on that  
album at that time and what gear because
at the time it sounded "cold" but now it sounds very warm and rich  
compared to work being done today.

(Having Annie Lennox as your vocalist doesn't hurt going into your  
sampler, either!  Let's not forget that!) ;-)

People are realizing that things have not improved just because  
technology contains more, or has faster speeds as you
well know and have taken pains to explain in some part why.

The new Alesis analog-digital hybrid synths just sound like buzzing --  
it's horrible!  It's supposed to sound good or better!

Thank you for all of these great points!

And there is a difference in tone between the EIII and the EIV, too  
I've heard?  That's very disturbing...


On 21 Jul 2009, at 22:20, jammie wrote:

> wrong it records its samples in 12bit and still puts it in 12bit  
> data in 8bits memory be it compressed but you dont get 1mb  
> equivalant 16bit samples
>
> the memory works in the same way as scsi1 its 8 bits but the the  
> next 4bit data is put in the next available 8bit location using  
> compression but its still 12bits when its read back out of memory it  
> reads the first 8bit location then the second 8bit location but only  
> reading the first 4 bits data
>
> the compression program and the gal processor splits the memory up  
> into 1 and a half 8bit codes locations in a memory table
>
> thats how it does it the scsi works the same way the 12bit samples  
> are recorded and sent to the scsi drive but are actualy saved in  
> 16bits that is the same for all 12bit samplers the last 4bits are  
> just zero,s filling up the 16bit data which is sent to the scsi 1  
> drive as 2 8bit data streams
>
> this is what would happen to the emaxs memory if it was not for the  
> compression program using a allocating table to distribute the data  
> in 8bit and 4 bit segments to the 12bit dacs




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