-64 Voice polyphony in mono, 32 stereo
Converters 16-bit input and 18 bits for the outputs
-2 Effect banks (A and B) more than 70 effects:
-Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Flange, Tremolo and Distortion
-2 Simultaneous effects
-4 MB factory (Simm low profile)
-Up to 128 MB
-4 Stereo outputs
-1 Output for stereo effects, 1 headphone
-1 Stereo input
-1 MIDI IN, 1 MIDI OUT, 1 MIDI Through
-1 SPDIF input, 1 x SPDIF
Various sample-dump utility on Mac as on PC
(But no real editing software parameters of a sample)
Mac: Peak, Recycle, Alchemy, D Sound Pro, Transfer Station
PC: Esi-Win, Recycle, Sound Forge, Wavelab, Wavesurgeon,
Disk Factory, Zero-X Looper
Possibility to import a sample by directly mapping
an area of the keyboard
Ability to export a sample
Import-Export bank

UTILIZATION

Using easy with an operating system originally designed well ...
Creation of zones, tuning, setting: everything is done fairly
Quickly history of not getting lost in the technical ...

But some treatments are horribly long
(Several tens of minutes for larger operations) ...

The editions of the sounds is perhaps the weak point of Esi 4000:
No preview, so to manually find the Zero-Crossings (amplitude points close to 0) is a little galley ...
If you want to make complicated connections with the duties
Cut Copy and Paste, it takes too much time if you want to be really accurate ...
However, looping samples on a defined portion is
very convenient to save memory ..

The manual is well explained, but to have it in French,
it must rise early ... Better to know
chti a little English dedicated to electronic music

SOUNDS

Transparency converters:
Sound E-Mu, not transparent
His punchy, aggressive limit, a little hard in the lower as in
treble - so for a little rhythmic compression and
of equalization not hurt ...
It's good that the Yankees ....
We forgive them a bit with the interest shown by the 19 types of filters to the machine ... Many experimental perspective
but if you are looking for a Lowpass analog sounding, it's not quite that ...
Another thing: The effects of the turbo option are of poor quality
Suddenly, around 3000 to buy a card that adds F
2 analog outputs, a digital I / O and dual processor
we will never use, that's still bad ...
To return to the dynamic
I find them quite clearly.
Note, crude as they are, they allow a lot of flexibility in compression, but personally
I think the record is not perfect.

OVERALL OPINION

I use a 4000 Turbo Esi for a year ...
It is a rather powerful sampler on the whole
Although the turbo option appears to be a nice afterthought scam ...
I tried a Akai S2000 and MPC2000 before making this choice
So, I do not regret it too, not knowing the high end and Akai models from Yamaha and Kurzweil ...