emusonacid!

Hi all.

I have my heart set on buying a e5000 but am completely miffed about the fact that they only have 4 mono outs. it seems impossible to find any upgraded e5000s for sale or any upgrade cards which I could fit myself.

I know this is going to sound stupid but I cant stand the blue screens on the e6400s I personally much prefer the more natural green screens on the e5000s that's why I want one, but the channels! I cant bring myself to use up 3U of rack space for just 4 channels. . .I would rather buy another esi 4000 that's only 2U and would put out 8 channels! and it has a green screen.

So I was thinking, rather than waiting decades for an upgraded e5000 to appear, to get the extra channels couldn't I just swap out the screen on the e6400 for an e5000s screen? Is this easy enough to do?

Lastly.

My PC has a zip drive so I can easily write wav files to a zip disk, can either of e5000 or e6400 read .wav? this being the case could I use one of these samplers to convert .wav files to eos so my esi can read them? (rather than using chicken systems etc.)

Regards

ni cad

Wondering you rating the green screen over the other, but your opinion, well accepted.
Dunno, but the output option is the one that pops up most, seen a few over last months/year, also
a few samplers with the extra outputs, one just a few days ago, all on ebay. If you love the screen that
much buy the 5000, the output option will come for ya'.

EDIT, forgot your other question:

Yes, they can read wav from floppy (limited size naturally) or FAT-formatted zip, it is recommended that you have
a zip for your Ultra and one for your PC, and exchange the zip-disk between drives. Don't have ESI, but it can't
read native EOS files, but on the Ultra you can save a bank as EIIIX sampler-format (EIIIX is kinda ESI's predecessor),
that the ESI will read (see the manual how to do it, once you have it).

If you love the screen that much buy the 5000, the output option will come for ya'.

Werd!

Yes, they can read wav from floppy (limited size naturally) or FAT-formatted zip, it is recommended that you have
a zip for your Ultra and one for your PC, and exchange the zip-disk between drives.

Check!

Don't have ESI, but it can't read native EOS files, but on the Ultra you can save a bank as EIIIX sampler-format (EIIIX is kinda ESI's predecessor),
that the ESI will read (see the manual how to do it, once you have it).

Dope.

Thanks Rascal, yeah its just my eyes are over sensitive to bright lights, I'm gonna go for a 5000! Nice one Bruv.

ni-cad wrote:
Thanks Rascal, yeah its just my eyes are over sensitive to bright lights, I'm gonna go for a 5000! Nice one Bruv.

I would get the 6400 for the 8 outputs
Did you know you can adjust the screen brightness
Another option would be to get some flexible coloured stick on plastic laminate, and just overlay a cutout to the screen.
Seems a couple of options worth looking into?

You can pick up the 8 output expansion boards for the E-5000 and E-4's on eBay now and again (just make sure you do a world wide search on eBay.