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Would like to know about Ultra upgrade cards and screens.

Postby ni-cad » Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:33 pm

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

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Re: Would like to know about Ultra upgrade cards and screens.

Postby Rascal Revenge » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:56 am

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'. :grin:

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).
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Re: Would like to know about Ultra upgrade cards and screens.

Postby ni-cad » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:39 pm

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

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.
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Re: Would like to know about Ultra upgrade cards and screens.

Postby JAHFUNK » Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:08 pm

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? :grin:
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Re: Would like to know about Ultra upgrade cards and screens.

Postby Plank » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:24 pm

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.
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