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Model	Emu Esi 4000
Type	Sampler
Synthesis	Digital Sampling
Manufactured	1997
Quantity
Polyphony	64 (32 in stereo)
Oscillators	Sampled waveforms
Filters	19 different filters
Memory	Up to 128 Mb (72 pin standard memory), floppy drive, SCSI -connector for HD, CD, Zip Drive (SCSI) etc.
Keyboard	-
Sound	Clean and wide
Good for	All
Less good for	-
Miscellaneous	Our ESI4000 is equipped with Turbo Card, 66 Mb RAM, Harddisk, CD. Zip drive

BACKGROUND

Emu is by tradition associated with high quality samplers. The Emulator series: Emulator, Emulator II, Emulator III and Emulator IV was cutting edge samplers used for film score composing etc. A cut down series came with Emax, Emax II and later ESI 32, ESI4000 and ESI2000, all high performance samplers. Today Emu is going software with Emulator X.

DESCRIPTION

ESI4000 is a very competent sampler, and the sound is clear and good. EMU's sound library is huge. ESI4000 is the successor of ESI-32. It is possible to use all ESI-32 sounds in ESI4000, but not on the contrary. It's possible to format for ESI-32 in ESI4000

Standard equipped with:

18 bits stereo sampling
Up to 128Mb RAM
Compatible with Akai's sound library
4 analog outputs
SCSI

It can be expanded with a Turbo card:

10 analog outputs
S/PDIF digital I/O
24-bits effect processor
18 new filter
New software

Some features:

Stereo phase-locked time compression/expansion
Pitch change
Sample rate conversion
Doppler/Pan
Exciter
Parametric EQ
Transform/Multiply
Cut, Copy, Paste
Auto truncate
Crossfade looping
Audio scrub
Auto normalize
Compressor

BROCHURES

ESI 4000 Product Info

ESI 4000 MANUAL

Don't miss our basic and easy 101 Quickguide to Emu Esi4000

REVIEWS

Sound On Sound, January 1998
Electronic music's review

EDIT PROGRAMS

Emagic SoundDiver - Discontinued, but can be found at Ebay etc.
ReCycle - send loops from the sampler to the computer. Edit them, and return them to the sampler again

EMU CD's

EMU-CDs is common and can be bought in many music stores, special the larger stores or at EMU's homepage. You can also find free EMU-sounds in many places, for instance on Internet.

EMU has some different operative systems, and all CDs/sounds don't fit. EMU's operative system EOS doesn't fit. But the older EIII and ESI-32 operative system are compatible with ESI4000.

LINKS

Sound Of Music

Emu Esi 4000