ezman wrote:Well, some people are saying that 50 is the new 30! Any 50 year olds here!?.
Well I see some 40's but I think I get the prize for oldest poster, 48.
I do FX and sound for theatre and film. Used to use an EMAX for FX in the late 80's-early 90's. I had/ have a couple of AKAI's (S01 & S2800). They were fun but the file system sucked. Film FX is mostly Syncavier (now there's a portable rig ;~) ) or E4, so I used them but never plunked down the cash to own one. Then came eBay... Got an E4X for about $250 and put in a HD and had a great time. I was feeling like I would really like to upgrade the beast and then...eBay again came to the rescue. A E6400 that had been upgraded to a full E4XT Ultra, I think the 6400 on the front scared folks off and I got it for just over $400 and already had a buyer for my old one for $300 so the upgrade was just over $100. This baby is really nice and fast. And its platform independent!!! When I moved from OS 9 to OS X (Mac) my soft samplers went away. The one I was going to upgrade wanted $150, I though the EMU was a better deal! Then a month ago the soft sampler Co. went under so the EMU was a MUCH better deal.
Recently swapped the SCSI internal for a nice BIG (60 gig), quiet IDE drive. It just gets better! And one day away from 49.