emusonacid! legacy

Hi, good day to you all.

Well, just a got a quick question to ask of you.

Can my e5000 ultra upgrade to 8 outs? (by 8 outs i mean 1/4 inch jacks)

Thanks for your time.

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Not to 8 outs, since output-expansion adds another 8 outs, your 5000 will have 12 outs in total then.

I thought the e5000 couldn't take the output expander, or some of the other expansions.

There are two versions of the analog 8 output expansion, model 6313 and model 6867. The second module can only be used in an Ultra series E4 that has the RFX-32 card installed. The documentation for the first model mentions the other Ultra series (e6400-Ultra, e4xt-ultra), but doesn't mention the e5000 at all.

Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that the e5000 won't take the card, but I'd be very suspicious. The reasoning at E-mu behind the e5000 seemed to be that it was a middle ground between a stripped down e6400-Ultra and a fully tricked out e4xt-Ultra, but that it couldn't be expanded as much (or that's certainly the way it was portrayed in all the review articles I've read of the Ultra series as a whole)

Do you have the hardware manual for the e5000 as well as the EOS manual? It's a much thinner book, but near the back it lists the various upgrades that the unit can have (assuming it's anything like the hardware manual that came with the e6400-Ultra). Unfortunately, the hardware manuals seem to frequently vanish when the units hit second-hand markets, and unlike the EOS manual the hardware manuals aren't archived on E-mu's web site.

Did you mean the getting started manual?

The thin 50 pg one?

Okay, so i looked near the back and voila!
Yes, it states on pg41... expandable to 10 outputs!

so which expansion output model am i going to need?

hmm... so much to learn!



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100 % the 8 output expansion (6313) works. 5000 was just a stripped down 6400 Ultra (had another display and four instead 8 balanced outs) with all expansion ports. To further assure you original E 5000 Ultra brochure which I own states in sentence and list all it can be expanded to 12 outputs.

Yes, you definitely want the 6313. Assuming, of course, that you don't have the RFX-32 board.

Mmm... 12 outputs.... drool drool...