Anyone using th EMUX2 ?
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- KVRist
- 291 posts since 3 Dec, 2002 from tokyo
Just wondered what the SynthSwipe and TwistaLoop features were like. Obviously EMU hype them, but can anyone using them give a objective assessment please?
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- KVRian
- 964 posts since 11 May, 2004 from cologne,germany
synthswipe is fine, i got reasonable results with it. twisataloop is a real cool feature which fulfills most slicing/stretching plus offering the opportunity to apply the filter and synthesis functions of x2 on your audio material.but i'm not going to comment in detail on these, as i don't have too much experience with them.
but i want to leave a general remark on emulatorX2: superb quality and variety of filters (best one's i know, though this is obviously absolutely subjective), great sample interpolation (in many cases one sample is sufficient in order to shape convincing presets with regard to synth sounds, i.e. excluding acoustic material, plus function generators (step sequencer-like modulators), plus many other modulation features
sound and synthesis options are great. but THE shortcoming of this sampler is it's bloody preset and sample management. e.g., whereas wusikstation and other programs allow using wave files in your preset without saving them in proprietary format, this is not possible with emu's sampler, you're forced to save the samples in emu's format. but the real downside is that you can't save single presets but only banks of them. and you can only load a whole bank in to the sampler. you can import or "merge" single presets into a bank, but in case to use for instance a set of presets which belong to various banks, you have to merge and sabe them into a new bank: emuX2 doesn't know simple preset referencing,which is a pita in my opinion. the way wusikstation handles presets is way superior for example. a perfect "e-mu" sampler would combine the preset handling of wusikstation (or maybe others) and the sound shaping capalities of emulatorx/x2. hope that helps a bit, though i think my language is confusing ( i love german beer!).
but i want to leave a general remark on emulatorX2: superb quality and variety of filters (best one's i know, though this is obviously absolutely subjective), great sample interpolation (in many cases one sample is sufficient in order to shape convincing presets with regard to synth sounds, i.e. excluding acoustic material, plus function generators (step sequencer-like modulators), plus many other modulation features
sound and synthesis options are great. but THE shortcoming of this sampler is it's bloody preset and sample management. e.g., whereas wusikstation and other programs allow using wave files in your preset without saving them in proprietary format, this is not possible with emu's sampler, you're forced to save the samples in emu's format. but the real downside is that you can't save single presets but only banks of them. and you can only load a whole bank in to the sampler. you can import or "merge" single presets into a bank, but in case to use for instance a set of presets which belong to various banks, you have to merge and sabe them into a new bank: emuX2 doesn't know simple preset referencing,which is a pita in my opinion. the way wusikstation handles presets is way superior for example. a perfect "e-mu" sampler would combine the preset handling of wusikstation (or maybe others) and the sound shaping capalities of emulatorx/x2. hope that helps a bit, though i think my language is confusing ( i love german beer!).
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 291 posts since 3 Dec, 2002 from tokyo
Thanks Abi, that's very clear. I have the previous Emu X, and will upgrade sometime soon (lack of $$ at the moment) 
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- KVRian
- 964 posts since 11 May, 2004 from cologne,germany