Members mmm Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 Hi there! Just wondered if anyone has any experience with this keyboard? I got an offer to buy a 64voice model (think it was 64, might be 128 voice),with 32meg ram and no HD for about 200 USD.Is this a good offer? Kind regards, mmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gilwe Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 No. 32MB of RAM is almost nothing, and considering you have no HD inside it becomes simply nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 Seems an excellent price to me! You can always add more RAM and the hard drive yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gilwe Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 For a LOT of money. AFAIK the SDRAM that the E4 reads is not standard (the same one usually goes on PCs) and a SCSI HD with a lot of space is not cheap and very hard to find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 Originally posted by gilwe and a SCSI HD with a lot of space is not cheap and very hard to find This is far from correct. Assuming its in good condition I would jump on that in a second, even to use as a controller, its a good price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gilwe Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 What of the things mentioned are "far from correct" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lord Toranaga Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 ram wiull cost no more than $25. compatible scsi hardrive should be abot $10-$50 this ram is easy to find. just do a emu sampler search on e-bay. you willl see may sellers selling ram. and hard drives. that is a grat price. do not pass it up. you could flip it on e-bay, and make $200 here is a link to a page with brand new ram/ and a liberal return policy http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Legacy-Mac-DIMMs-SIMMs/ you would need 72 pin simm, almost any willl work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 Originally posted by gilwe What of the things mentioned are "far from correct" ? The part I quoted. A 4-9GB SCSI drive could be had for free if you know someone with piles of computer junk, or for a couple dollars plus shipping on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mmm Posted April 10, 2005 Author Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 Thanks a million for the replies.I think I will buy it, if nothing else than to have an EMU sampler:) Its also a 76key midiboard, so I think its gonna be a great addition to the rig;) I`ll be on the lookout for some ram and a 9 GB drive then! Thanks again, mmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lord Toranaga Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 good job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LameAim Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 good choice. even if you don't like it, after you add the hard drive and ram you should be able to sell it on ebay for 500-600 bucks and higher pretty easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members clusterchord Posted April 10, 2005 Members Share Posted April 10, 2005 aside from having the EOS series sound, with z-plane filters and mod matrix etc ; its a first class master keyboard controller. it does splits layers. controls 16 internal or external MIDI channels. Keybed is fantastic with long black keys. semi-weighted similar to K5000 !! No Yamaha FS crap. i'd get that for $200 without thinking.. and yes, RAM and HD can all be found later.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gilwe Posted April 11, 2005 Members Share Posted April 11, 2005 I have an Emu E6400 Ultra which sounds amazing, and 200$ is rather cheap, but as far as my search went, addons for the Emu samplers are going for very high prices, so I'd suggest that you make a little search before, for prices and availabily and what are the expantion possibilities for the machine, other wise you'll get stuck with 32MB of ram which is really nothing these days. BTW, how did you intend to use samples ? you know that with no HD installed you'll need to load sample from floopies any time you boot the machine up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aeon Posted April 11, 2005 Members Share Posted April 11, 2005 Originally posted by clusterchord aside from having the EOS series sound, with z-plane filters and mod matrix etc ; its a first class master keyboard controller. it does splits layers. controls 16 internal or external MIDI channels. Keybed is fantastic with long black keys. semi-weighted similar to K5000 !! No Yamaha FS crap. i'd get that for $200 without thinking. +1. Even if you never expand it and actually use the sampling and synthesis features, you still have a monster of a controller, and a damn fine deal at that. Grab it! RAM and drives for that can be found for small coin. cheers, aeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dikrek Posted April 11, 2005 Members Share Posted April 11, 2005 $200? I'd get it NOW!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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