Hyde wrote:The sound of the EPS classic is really great. The advancements of the ASR10 make it a much more useable machine.... & you can transfer those EPS samples over.
Yep. That's one of the best ways to do it, in my opinion.
EPS keys + ASR10 rack = widest range of sound/features with smallest package for Ensoniq sampler tech. The EPS classic keyboard kind of acts as an optional "front-end" (12-bit, very low sample rates) and gives you a polyphonic aftertouch keybed with which to control the ASR10 rack which gives you all the nice effects, multi-outs, sequencer/audiotrack improvements, and stereo CD quality (should you want it).
EPS16 rack is maybe the best do-it-all option though, if you're strictly limited to one machine and one machine only -- definitely a weird bridge between the Mirage, EPS, and ASR10. Mirage or ASR-X are cool in their own ways, but kind of their own little worlds. Mirage has the analog filter thing, and ASR-X is more like Ensoniq meets Akai MPC series.