emusonacid!

Won't buy it, No Mac version. Add another 10 ppl to the list who wont buy it either same reason no Mac version. These 10 ppl are friends of mine, they all use Mac's but never really use the internet much. It astonishes me really wo know that there are SOOOO many more Mac users out there that do music that dont bother with the internet. These are the ppl that don't get factored into any equation when market analysis determines x-amount of PC users compared to Mac users.

EG i know about 50 ppl that use EMU samplers and Mac's but they never come here nor do they even get online much....too busy doing music. So it is hard to convince companies that they should do a product for the Mac for this very reason.

No...got my E4XT and it does the job...Nads.

I am planing to build a pc just for EX and treat it just like a external HW unit. I use ProTools on a mac. useing it in this fashion it will cost me just about the same as a now HW sampler and will most likely out perform all that are avalible. plus you will have the ability to transfer all information to your E 4 and take it on the road. or to another studio . or just rack your EX system and be done.

lost_sound

Dane wrote:
I just don't believe that you can get high quality converters for such a low price.
It just doesn't work like this.

/Dane

Hmmm, where'd you come up with this? Pro-Quality converters are actually quite cheap no matter what appogee would have you believe. Good converters are about $1.00 per chip, and I've been told that "High-End" chips such as Crystal Semiconductor chips are only a few dollars more. It's not like there's a pentium4 at each I/O stage. The converters in my e6400 ultra are 20-bit Crystal-Semi. chips, and sound better than anything else in my rig.
Also, as far as mixing DSP goes.... the way that E-mu's internal mixing algorythms have worked in the past sound really, really good. I wouldn't be at all suprised that if you mixed 32 tracks on this emu board and compared it to the same 32-track mixdown on a Pro-tools system you might second-guess Pro-tools. We won't know for sure until I have the e-mu card, but I for one am really excited about it.

-Priest_of_Robots

Priest_of_Robots wrote:

Dane wrote:
I just don't believe that you can get high quality converters for such a low price.
It just doesn't work like this.

/Dane

Hmmm, where'd you come up with this? Pro-Quality converters are actually quite cheap no matter what appogee would have you believe. Good converters are about $1.00 per chip, and I've been told that "High-End" chips such as Crystal Semiconductor chips are only a few dollars more. It's not like there's a pentium4 at each I/O stage. The converters in my e6400 ultra are 20-bit Crystal-Semi. chips, and sound better than anything else in my rig.
Also, as far as mixing DSP goes.... the way that E-mu's internal mixing algorythms have worked in the past sound really, really good. I wouldn't be at all suprised that if you mixed 32 tracks on this emu board and compared it to the same 32-track mixdown on a Pro-tools system you might second-guess Pro-tools. We won't know for sure until I have the e-mu card, but I for one am really excited about it.

-Priest_of_Robots

OK Priest of Robots. I believe you on this one.

And don't get me wrong. I am excited too.

If, whenever someone tests the system in a proper way, the system turns out to be as good / good-sounding as my Ultra I'll be the first to consider a system if I will be able to connect 16 digi outs via ADAT.

Let me know how it works when you get it.

/Dane

i wonder if ppl who buy the emulator x will sell their emu's, flood the market, and hence lower the price of s/h emu's...... nah. i doubt it.
Even still i'd rather get another emu ultra, second-hand . my pc has enough personality problems without adding more pci cards etc

i am actualy considering purchasing the emulator tomorrow...

as for the fate of my emu, it is staying right where it is. I really don't think that i would sell that gear, even if for some reason i never use it again. i think i will though. i am actualy going to take my nine gig harddrive and buy a scsi controller for it, use that instead of my zip drive. stuff for zips are almost impossible to find. i would like to have stuff that i can get support or easy replacement for.

i will have to mess around with everything to see how it all works and see what way is best for my new system.

tell you guys what, not producing music for the past week or so has really been ruff on me.

I've already bought it. Placed an order with EMU last week. Its on back order until they ship. Hopefully I'll have it in the next 3 weeks. I'm going to build a new box just for the Emulator X. Its going to be my E5.