A hard sampler user wants to GO soft !

[mauseoleum]

Topic: A hard sampler user wants to GO soft !

midlife crisis ?

[laserbeak]

i coulda gotten an emulator x and im glad i didnt. my bro has one it's good but he's still learning it. it's got alotta bugs. i'd rather have an e4xt ultra:) hear alot about them and hardware is known to sound better anyway

[ericj23]

The emulator X is a great sampler, if you have a 8Ghz pc. It eats cpu cycles like nothing else i have ever used, about 34 voices on my amd 3ghz, and thats with no filters on the voices. I wasn't impressed at all.

Interesting read. Thats enough info for me to know its not worth getting. Cheers They probably didn't code it with SSE2 instructions in mind.. Maybe too slack 'dem coders.. But I want those EMU filters Maybe I have to buy a cheep Emulator sampler!

I use Emulator X, and I haven't seen extreme trouble with CPU use. It does use a fair bit of power, but I've had it up past 100 voices, with filtering, on a P4 3GHz. Were you running with very low ASIO latency? Disk streaming as well as features such as crossfade and chorus could impact performance as well.

Overall I like it. It's very good for modulating/filtering, and the pitch shifting is excellent. On the other hand, currently it's difficult to use for breakbeats (so I'm told...).

my experience with emulator xtends to the latter - the cpu useage on a basic patch is indistinguishable from kontakt - the moment you start throwing in lots of filter modulation and/or the great sounding chorus the cpu does go up

but then it's fx and filters are a lot better sounding than kontakts but I still don't think it's as mature as the other softsamplers

i own kontakt, intakt, sfz+, emulator x

i recommend vsampler 3.5 - it appears to have all the features (and it's cheaper)

or if fidelity is the absolute permium emulator x