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Subject: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
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Original Message 1/12 14-Jan-00 @ 02:36 PM - E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Can anyone give me an unbiased recommendation on one of these two samplers.
cheers.
Message 2/12 15-Jan-00 @ 08:53 PM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
To me, s5000 and e5000 are in different classes, so why are AKAI selling them for cheaper? I think cus no o nme's buying them shit. Send me an e-mail and i'll give you a number for a dealer that are doing 6400's for £1400 cash.
Message 3/12 16-Jan-00 @ 05:59 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Well, I don't know about where you're from but everywhere I've seen the E-5000, it was less expensive than the Akai S5000. If wez@studio69.freeserve.co.uk (sorry didn't leave a name) does not need the extra outputs or wants to go digitally out of the sampler, then the E5000 is a good fit. EOS (the E-mu Operating System) is fairly stable now where the Akai OS needs some maturity time.
I bought an E5000 myself after debating the same thing.
HTH
Fernando
Message 4/12 16-Jan-00 @ 07:59 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Message 5/12 16-Jan-00 @ 08:05 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
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Message 6/12 16-Jan-00 @ 10:32 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Message 7/12 17-Jan-00 @ 02:11 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
The difference in price between the E6400 and the E5000 is roughly about the same as the list price of the 8 output expansion (except you'd have 12 outs instead of 8 on the E5000). The E5000 is really not that bad when you compare the 2 units. EOS is pretty stable and the only real differences are on the outs and polyphony capability (when the E6400 is expanded).
I bought an E5000 Ultra and am very happy with it. I nearly bought the E6400 Ultra but, to get the extra outs, it would cost about the same as the E6400. I'll be going out via ADAT so that doesn't matter. I thought about the polyphony (E5000 limited to 64 while the E6400 can be expanded to 128 by buying an option) briefly. When I compared the cost of 2 E5000's vs. one E6400 with the polyphony option, I was only paying a couple of hundred dollars more. Plus, your midi timing is better sending 64 notes to 2 separate midi ports than 128 notes to 1 midi port.
I also chose the E5000 against the S5000 because the OS is more stable.
HTH.
Fernando
Message 8/12 17-Jan-00 @ 08:36 PM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Message 9/12 18-Jan-00 @ 11:19 AM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
of making money.
I have my reasons
(sonic research Liveset ILIEL)
Message 10/12 18-Jan-00 @ 01:30 PM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
Message 11/12 18-Jan-00 @ 02:45 PM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
I live in Canada. I bought an E5000 Ultra for $2150 Cdn. Buying the 8 outs expansion would cost me approx. $3000 total cost. The E6400 Ultra costs $2800 here. That's a difference of $200 Cdn (approx $135 US) for 4 more outputs.
I'm not saying that the E5000 is necessarily better than the E6400. I'm just saying that it was better for my needs. When I looked at it it made the most sense to me since I feel that the E6400 Ultra has the ability to go to 16 outputs and 128-voice polyphony up on the E5000. Once I started looking at the cost to get there, 2 E5000's made more sense to me, giving me a backup unit and the ability to split the voicing tasks making it tighter. The analog outs are not that important to me since I plan on going out through the ADAT expansion.
If the E6400 Ultra works best for you and the price is reasonable for you, go for it. It is a great machine too.
Fernando
Message 12/12 18-Jan-00 @ 05:33 PM - RE: E5000Ultra or Akai S5000
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