EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:17 PM 11/11/03 -0800, you wrote:

> >Can anyone direct me to threads or help me answer the >question of 
> should I replace
> >my Emu E4xtUltra with the EXS?

> 
>ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY NOT!In my opinion,and I work routinely with both,The 
>E4 blows the EXS away by every standard except memory,of course.The only 
>relative advantage of EXS over hardware in general is streaming samples 
>from disk.However,this is true of several soft-samplers.But I haven't 
>heard any yet that sound as good as the E4.Also,Kontakt,which I have used 
>the demo of,and Halion,which I have not used,seem to have superior 
>synthesis capabilities to the EXS.It is my definite opinion that Kontakt 
>does,and I am intrigued by the new features of Sampletank 2.I know nothing 
>about Mach Five,but by the ads and press releases it specs out 
>well,including apparently, EOS compatability.But I for one,will continue 
>to use the Emulator,as well as my Yamaha A4000,a good machine available 
>dirt cheap these days with a good,9 disk factory library and amazing 
>effects.My advise to you is shop around for the features
>and library compatability you need and add a soft sampler,but don't sell 
>the Emu.By the way, Chicken Systems Translator will do EOS to EXS,but with 
>a weird bug where the filter is all the way closed.Note,however,that I am 
>using EXS Mk 1.But the really good news is that Translator will do EOS to 
>sf.2 very well,and just about all the major soft-samplers will load sound 
>fonts.Good hunting.

                                                                                               I 
think you have a good point hardware samplers have definite advantages over 
software samplers except in the interface and memory and perhaps 
organization categories the new versions of translator will map the emu 
filter setting properly thanks for pointing that out if i keep reading and 
writing posts like this i'm going to keel over in my grave

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User