While the features ... well this is a sampler, with buttons, a display, an input and analog outputs and numrériques. Possibility of placing a hard drive inside, and outside as via SCSI Normal ... what!
No DSP course, but the effects still as phaser and chorus, and other effects in non-real time ', such as compressor, doppler, exciting ... Not easy to predict good value apply to his sample ...! Not very practical anyway.

USE

So to use ... well, it's not simple ...
There's so much machinery, thou tested, you understand quickly the trick ... but this one is not on.
Will there still a little time to adapt after the first use. It is an architecture a little quirky, and the links between waves and presets are not obvious ... forcings organizing palettes sapmples management and multi instrumentals and voices little crazy ... Yes, I have repeatedly failed to sink into the dark side ladies and gentlemen.
The manual is pretty clear yet, it's true.
For editing sounds, it happens not too bad, it's more ergonomic overall.

SOUNDS

So here, people come ...
This prompted me to give a little advice on Bécanne, are the few ads I see on the different machines, and bearing this famous line: "THE BIG SOUND" heat, heat! the sound is nice and round, etc ... etc ... yada yada yada precisely the sound potatoes too! So why sell this item !!!
I would tendency to believe that these few people have looked at buying this model, precisely becaufe everyone says: 'big sound' ... Ho! And then they are realizing that it's not that much, then sell ...
In short, I think what we think, is that all that will come out, or enter and then rebound from this unit will turn into gold!
Hmm ... So to abbord there sound banks, such as banks AKAI eg btw I tested from my computer and sound card (Konnekt) and then compared with all 'e64 ... there's a difference' polyphonic '. That is, take a drum kit AKAI, one in your sequencer software, and even your ... EMU are sequencing the whole ... and compare. The EMU sounds much better! So what first saw the only snare sounds the same, if the same sample is played via software or via the emu.
In fact, the trick of this sampler is the resample ... The famous warm sound, it comes, yes converters is known, but especially the way in which these convertos will clip the signal ... is necessary that its saturates! But not too much, that's it heats. And, yes, you can say "The big sound", but it is quiet, it's not a sick thing ... It is 'almost' the same with other convertos, such as those of the Konnekt . But still, it's the sound EMU. It takes practice, poffiner its settings, try again, and then we begin to know ... In short, a whole history.

NOTICE GLOBAL

That was about two years I have, then it is now that I am beginning to understand the true qualities of the sampler, and then with a little more experience to understand on which judgments are based.
Anyway it always comes back to the same story ... This or that machine rings more, better, and then worse than yada yada yada ... It's true, there's the sea ... as machines .dropoff window
I'll cut it short by saying that there's people who make great stuff with a piece of wood and two spoons !!!
You entered? !!
But that said, I think that yes, it is a quality sampler object with a particular character that gives it a pest charm, for those who want to go to the trouble of triffouiller and exploit its possibilities.