I finally found all the missing parts and cables for my Emu EIIIxp last night, and more importantly the 5 excellent<div>CDROMs of Emu sample banks:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">#10. Elements of Sound 1mb collection<br>
#11. Elements of Sound 2mb collection<br>#12. ESI-32 150MB Production Soundset<br>#13. Dance 2000<br>#16. Twenty Six Studio Drum Kits and Percussion ESI-32</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">Anybody have suggestions of Linux samplers that can read Emu-format sample CDROMs directly?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">Or alternately, software to txlate EIII sample banks into a more universal format?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">One thing I'd like to do is a side-by-side comparison of a modern Linux sampler with this 18 year old beast... In terms of latency and "jitter" and playabilty. Won't be easy to do w/o using the same samples...</span></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">Of course, I'm not sure I actually need a Linux softsampler now... this thing is totally "pro", even in its obsolecense. A lot of work went into those sample-banks. I forgot how nice they were. The 2Mb samples of strings, pianos, instruments, percussion are very musical, responsive, w/ some thought to modulation control for expressiveness. And you can just hammer this thing with MIDI and it doesn't crash or go unresponsive....</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px; ">Actually it's really not obsolete at all. My computer's SPDIF in is happy to accept its 16 bit 44ksample output on it's AES/EBU.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px;">Of course, being all digital, it doesn't have the trendy old school analog midi-controllable <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Curtis VCF/VCA <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">section like the EIII rack, nor its pricetag:</span></span></span></font></div>
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</span></span></font></div><div>Niels<br><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a><br><br>
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