Spadz wrote:I know every sampler has it's own sound. I never got the chance to try an Akai sampler. How is the sound different from an E4? May Monsieur Coudert could answer that one? S.V.P?
I know we're digressing from the original thread and I apologise but I'll try to answer that one. It's very difficult to put this into words. Without any effects added, with the filter open and no resonance added, i.e. when playing raw samples, there is very little difference; the S1000 sounds a little sweeter to my ears perhaps but that's very subjective.
The differences become more obvious when you start playing around with the filter. I find the E4K's filter resonance more aggressive than that on the S2800 (the S1000 filter is non resonant) and the E-mu's digital filter sounds more 'efficient', analogue-ish - for want of better words - than the Akai, which reminds me of the filter on my old Wavestation SR or Korg M1. I know some of you are going to hate me for saying this but I always found that on those machines, you could still recognise the original samples whatever the filter settings may have been. The Akai is a little bit like that. When you filter something on the E4K, you can seriously alter the samples. There's a phaser/filter on the E4K I simply love, which works wonders on JP8-type strings/pads when modulated by an LFO.
I have tried to produce synth sounds from single-cycle waveforms and longer raw synth waveform samples on both machines. Whilst the results on the Akais are quite pleasing on the whole, they don't measure up to the E-mu. But as I said, it's a very subjective matter and a question of personal taste.
Monsieur Coudert (dont l'école est fermée à cause de la neige!)
