Emax

Thanks Tristan
What interested me about the K2500 is early Autechure used a K2500RS   
and they claim that is their best sampler for mangling samples at the  
time --late 1990s
I did notice that the sampling on Emax 2 contains that magic grain  
much like the SP1200. EMU lost it with the Emulator 4 series
I bought the K2500 keyboard USD$400 ---I like the keyboard and  
appegiator.
One advantage is you can send midi notes out in the appegiator but one  
the otherhand you cannot clock the appegiator to midi clock directly  
unless you go into dequencer song mode and record it as a sequence--- 
go figure
In the Emax 2 Appegiator you can clock to midi clock but it does not  
send midi notes out


cheers David



On 14/09/2009, at 12:50 AM, Tristan wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> Yes, I own both. The K2500 operating system and features are much more
> sophisticated than the Emax 2 and the sound is also quite different.
> The K2500 sample playback is very clean, and can of course be
> processed by the VAST DSP engine, but lacks what I can only describe
> as the grain and bite of the Emax 2. The K2500 can also only transpose
> samples up about one octave (or two at reduced fidelity) whereas the
> Emax 2 can go up 5 octaves. But the K2500 supports 44.1kHz and 48kHz
> sampling rates and the sampling option provides digital I/O. When I
> originally changed from an Emax 2 to a K2000 I must admit I was a bit
> disappointed by the sound of the Kurzweil, but at today's prices you
> can easily afford to have both :)
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Tristan mailto:tu@...
>
> Sunday, September 13, 2009, 9:49:30 PM, you wrote:
>
> >
>
> 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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