Emax

i own both the capabilities of the k2500 blows the emax2 away it has superior synthesis functions and with 128 mb of ram you dont need the sampling option as its better to use the conp and then save as wave files as the kurzweil loads wav files you only need the sampling option if you are going to sample instruments direct in to the k2500

i dont use any of my samplers inputs any more but use the converters on my sound card as they are far superior then any samplers i then use awave to make instrument files for my samplers and exmp for the emax1/2 i also use awave robot for my lopping as its got the best looping engine i have ever come across

spectral synthesis is good on the emaxes transform is good aswell but i use it on the ex2 sampler as its much faster  you can pick up a k2500 with a kdfx for about £400-500 were as a 2mb emax goes for £100 and the 8mb version £200-400 its up to you or go for a k2000 which has the same engine as the k2500 but does not have the kdfx and is only 64mb sample ram you can get one of these from £100-250 depending on condition

the sub systems of the kuraweils are windows compatible so you can stor krz or k25 files on a pc and just move them across to a media format ie zip or hardrive or ramcard depending on what drive you have installed to you k2500

and awave studio you can make patches with upto 3 layers per patch and you can make massive banks with only a few samples useing variations of parameters and fx

it also loads ensoniq files roland files and s1000 akai files and wav

you can also use single cycle wave forms and use the synthesis functions to warp and transform them so you can make a lot of synth sounds with very little samples in memory its like having a vsti softsynth in your hardware and it came out way before vsti did 

personally i lke both synths but to me the emax1 is better than the emax2 for the analog warmth of the filters all be it tiny memory size but i use single cycle waves any way and use the synth section this way you have unlimited memory and layering to samples with diferent panning settings can give a very large sound and using more channels with the same samples and pitching them slightly to get fat unison sounds  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Bulog 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:49 PM
  Subject: [emax] Emax 2 vs kurzweil K2500 Sampler


    Can you tell me if the Kurzweil K2500 with sampling option is as nice 
  a sounding sampler as Emax 2
  Anyone own both

  thanks in advance
  David

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