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Original Message Date: 03-Aug-02 @ 07:07 PM - easy question

chroma

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for the same price i can get:

a yamaha a3000 v.2 (16Mb ram, 500Mb scsi drive, 10 outs)

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an akai s2000 (2Mb ram, Eb16 effects board, 10 outs) PLUS a new Behringer 1204a 12 channel mixer

yamaha obviously but does anyone disagree for some reason? anyone?

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Message 11/23 05-Aug-02 @ 02:52 PM - RE: easy question

nomad

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why are the yammies so cheap?
i saw an a4000 close on ebay a couple weeks ago for $311, and another one close at $350 yesterday with no bids. is it just because not many sample CDs work with them?

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Message 12/23 05-Aug-02 @ 06:01 PM - RE: easy question

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everything's cheap, but volume produced = cheapest and yammie whacked out alot of those.

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Message 13/23 05-Aug-02 @ 09:56 PM - RE: easy question

influx

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they definitely did NOT do very well

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Message 14/23 06-Aug-02 @ 12:39 AM - RE: easy question

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the A3000 beats the s2000 from every angle. Filters are more and better, the sample routing and keymapping is more in depth, the effects beat the eb16 board on every angle, and every effect parameter is MIDI assignable.

A3000 knobs are a bit of a bitch, and scsi is slow (so's the s2000). Never heard of HD disk crashes and i've had an A3000 for almost 5 years now. Still don't see the reason for a new sampler!

I'll never understand why the 4000 and 5000 did so badly! Except there weren't enough improvements to justify an upgrade, but new users should have flocked to them...

I'd say the A3000 is the Best Sampler EVER!!!

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Message 15/23 06-Aug-02 @ 07:19 AM - RE: easy question

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got an emu e6400 for sale with the fx card, and internal 540mb drive with sounds loaded. backs up to cd perfectly with a pc utility I have. sell it with a few cd libraries (orchestral, greysounds,909,808 etc)and the patches I made from my analog gear,101, juno. what are you getting that yammaha for?

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Message 16/23 06-Aug-02 @ 09:45 AM - RE: easy question

Paleface

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And IIRC, the Yamaha will take internal IDE drives. The A4k/5k certainly did...

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Message 17/23 06-Aug-02 @ 05:14 PM - RE: easy question

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A3000 doe snot take IDE drives. That's a bonus of the upgrade to 4000/5000.

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Message 18/23 06-Aug-02 @ 06:35 PM - RE: easy question

99devils

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A3000 is definately a better sampler. Ex-S2000 user here (now on an S6000)

-Craig

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Message 19/23 07-Aug-02 @ 06:29 AM - RE: easy question

chroma

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brett:

yammy a3000 is Php 30,000 which is $600(!!!). and
thats used...it sucks being in the 3rd world...

i see a lot of more reasonably priced a3000s on
ebay etc. but a lot of sellers are unwilling to
ship to the philippines. besides with the cost of
shipping, taxes, customs fees AND the uncertainty
of my gear getting here at all, im more
comfortable actually going somewhere and picking
up my sampler with my own hands...

so how much did you say that emu was brett?

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Message 20/23 07-Aug-02 @ 07:23 AM - RE: easy question

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damn chroma...$600? I could find you one for WAY less than that...even with what we talked about it would be cheaper I think

and I can ship it too.

hmmm.

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