EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  You guys are awesome.  

I appreciate all of the food for thought and will most likely try out the exs for a while 
before I make a decision on whether to dump the E4.

Best of luck to all of you,

Will

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Garth Hjelte <garth@c...> wrote:
> 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