Dear all,
I couple of months ago I got myself a E-MU ESI 2000 sampler. The main reason for that is to add some character in the music. Presently modern electronic music is often produced by nothing more than a laptop with DAW-software. I like that rawness in the electronic music from the nineties or before.
Another reason is it's fun to have a 'vintage' sampler.
Preparing soundbank with a hardware sampler requires lits of patience. Especially with my sampler, because it lacks a graphical display. It's easier to do that with software like Viena or Polyphone. I spent a lot of time searching for ways to upload sf2-files to my hardware sampler. I also found some very useful info on this forum, so lots of gratitude to the one who posted it!
I have a few questions though...
Programming soundbanks with my ESI gives me the opportunity to add two layers per preset. I asume that is for stereo-sound or for a layered mono-sound. However I wonder if I convert and upload a preset from a SF2-file with more layers... can the ESI2000 handle that? (Because I am familiar with synths who seems to have a lot more editing functions when being controlled by a computer connected with MIDI-cables. So for example ... can I upload a multi-layered stereo piano to my ESI (of course the whole preset isn't allowed to be more than the RAM in the sampler).
Or are there alternative ways? Suppose the piano soundbank contains 4 layers of stereo-samples, than I have to split all those layers, however I hope I can play them all 4 simultaneously.
I hope someone can help me giving me answers.
Regards, Michael