emusonacid!

yo fellas,

im about to buy my first emu, time has slowed while awaiting my purchase (via ebay)

i need to know whether i shud buy one with a hard drive or cd-rom or both?

and how i can tranfer samples from my pc into the sampler?

wot is the best way?



do i need a dedicated drive for it? sounds like a good idea...

either feeding the sounds in thru cds, or sending them off my pc?

if sum1 can gimme a quik rundown that wud b toppa top!

also if anyone recommends any decent sample cds to buy? there are heaps on ebay, pretty cheap too, time to get a few more samples at da same time aiiiii!

ez emu headz!

Psymon

tha big dawg wrote:yo fellas,

im about to buy my first emu, time has slowed while awaiting my purchase (via ebay)

i need to know whether i shud buy one with a hard drive or cd-rom or both?

and how i can tranfer samples from my pc into the sampler?

wot is the best way?



do i need a dedicated drive for it? sounds like a good idea...

either feeding the sounds in thru cds, or sending them off my pc?

if sum1 can gimme a quik rundown that wud b toppa top!

also if anyone recommends any decent sample cds to buy? there are heaps on ebay, pretty cheap too, time to get a few more samples at da same time aiiiii!

ez emu headz!

Psymon

Ive been thinking about the best possible setup for me would be something like this:

SCSI card - Transfer samples to and from your computer, very importent!
IDE Harddrive - cheap, good place to store banks and samples, but buy one 15 gigs or under
SCSI Harddrive - something no bigger then 600megs though. Id use this to burn whole banks and presets off the IDE Harddrive. Sorta like making your own emu sample cds
SCSI CD-Rom - Reads sample cds, very cheap of ebay, saves your CD-R from heavy use
SCSI CD-R - Burn emu formated cds

With this youd be able to fully backup all your samples, plus more importently you coul;d back up your patches (fully mapped, looped etc.)
plus read sample cds and comunicate with the computer =)

I personally have an internal IDE HD that I use as a primary storage device, an external SCSI HD that I use for backup purposes (back up once a week or so), and a CD-R. I don't really have a need to burn CDs of my stuff, the drives are 40gb each and will probably not get full unless I start using the sampler for long vocal sections or something (not likely).

The SCSI card in the computer is definitely a good idea! Or, get a combo SCSI/firewire drive.