s950 or eps

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:12 am

which sampler has nastier sounding filters and just an overall better coloring for drums and bass sounds?

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:02 am

The S950's low-pass filter doesn't have resonance, or any other filter types.

If it's sound mangling you're after the S950 has a certain sound: it adds a crapload of high end at the input stage when sampling which is good for drums etc, but the filter itself is bland being just low-pass without resonance.

I would suggest getting an Akai S2800 / 3000 / 3200 which have WICKED filters, really fat and warm. Excellent for bass. The built-in FX board on the 3200 (and optional on the other models) is excellent too: 2 discrete chains of RingMod/Distortion > 3-band Parametric EQ > FreqMod/Chorus/Phaser > DDL > Reverb plus two additional discrete reverbs. I have a 3200 and it's still one of my favourite "synths". You probably would be able to find one of the later models for not a great deal more than the S950.

Can't speak for the EPS

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:11 am

so all i can do is sample at 12 bith with 7.khz and a low pass only? hmmmm thanks for the heads up, now i gotta do some more reasearch.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:24 am

The S950 will sample at up to 48kHz sample rate.

A good write-up here: http://emusician.com/signalprocessors/emusic_akai/

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:42 am

I have an S2800 full RAM and SCSI zip drive etc collecting dust. PM if yer interested. trade for a cheap toy in return or make an offer.

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:58 am

if it's the eps 16+ I'd go with that.

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Wed May 13, 2009 6:33 am

S3000XL - my all-time favorite sampler. It really is the business! Nice 'standard' feature set, and you can get some sick filters with the EB effects board.

orgul · Post by **orgul** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:12 am

Both have no resonance in the filters but the EPS + has lp hp and bp & very good effekts. there is a special effekt disc that emulates a moog style lp filter with res. that is great.

overall the s 950 is simple to use and has a very good and distinct 12 bit sound. it is perfect for sample choping a la premier, pete rock etc...
the ensoniq is much more of a sampler/synthesizer with alot of editing posibilities and great effekts. it is the one for mangeling. el-p used it extensivly and jan jelinek did his first album on the eps + or the asr (witch is the same sing with more ram and 16 bit converters).

cheers

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:08 am

i made my decision and i ended up getting the eps classic with the 4x memory expansion (for about 140) and i just sample kicks all the way down to 6.25khz, while i throw everything else in the 16-18khz range...It gets grimey and i just record the sounds into the computer again to later be used in the drum racks.

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