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I bought one, and maybe it's just me, but I don't know what all the hype is about it. Yes, it does have more warmth than most akai samplers, but unless you sampling at 10 or 16 khz, it doesn't do that much to the samples. Now keep in mind that I just hooked it up, and I've been playing with it for a few hours, so my opinion should be the same to most that expecting the so much talked about dirt and grime that is associated with this sampler. When you sample at a low rate, it gives a ring-tone to the samples.. the lower the rate, the louder the ring, the higher the rate, the ringing sound gets low, and you get added warmth, but it's nothing that an eq can't do. Sure, it won't be EXACTLY the same, but who listens so close to music to say, "I bet he used an emax/mpc-60/3000 on those drums." My MPC2000xl does a fairly decent job just with it's filters to get a close sound to the emax, and if you have the effects card, you can add ring-tone to it too. So if your one of the many that plunked down $1000+ on the SP1200, you should have bought the emax first, and if your thinking about buying an emax, really think if it's absolutely neccessary. If you can get one cheap, grab it. The best feature (so far) are the analog filters. The worst feature is that you need a boot disk to get it started, and then every perameter of the box has to be loaded. If you want to sample, it has to do some loading.. if you want to erase the small amount of memory (cuz it barely has much) it has to do more loading from the floppy disk. This sampler seems to do some nice work on longer samples rather than drum sounds. The chorus on this thing is outrageous, and it really makes it nice and full. I'll give another review later when I learn more, but I can't give it a rave review simply because I own it.. and that's just me keepin it real. There are much dirtier sounding samplers out there that you can get for cheap.. check with casio.. don't sleep on that!
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