ESI-4000 Turbo Zip Initial Thoughts by The Daydream Sound | UK Edition
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2014
- Edited and put together in London City. Here are my thoughts on the ESI-4000 Turbo Sampler.
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I bought an ESI 4000 a year ago because of this review and I absolutely love it. It's a great addition to my existing rack synths at my home studio. =)
Thanks for your thoughts. This helped me make a decision on picking up a near min ESI 2000 locally. :)
I've had this exact unit for over a year, and just luv it. Yes, the menus take some getting use too. But as you stated, the sound quality is very warm. Since I tend to sample more keys and pad sounds. That works great for me. Initially, it was you TDS that inspired me to get a standalone sampler. And after researching, it was price, features, and EMU loyalty that gave this the edge. Great that your provide these reviews of items I actually own. Gives another perspective on those items. Keep em coming. Peace...
Thanks Bruv! Wow I'm glad that I had a part in helping you with your decision!
Top Video. Thank you for the insight.
Love this video! Actually, the 4000 came before the 2000. They’re the exact same machine. As a matter of fact, many 2000 boots screens came from the factory saying ESI4000. They’re the same.
The OS is actually genius with the exception of the shambolic screen display,it just seems tricky if you dont use the sampler in depth, the more you use it and the more you exclusively use it, the better the OS becomes, no internal resampling is a bit of a badger but easy enough to rectify if you are using a computer, SMDI is a great feature, and lots of live options are available thanks to the trigger buttons and by using the jog wheel to modulate filters, fx etc by selecting zones. For anyone thinking of using this sampler the best thing I could recommend is throwing your zip/floppy drive in the bin and install a CF card reader for silent and safe saving. Also upgrading the RAM is easy and cheap nowadays, full RAM gives you over 12 minutes of sampling time at 48000khz through the spdif input. Savage good sound quality out of the wee beast too.
The EMU E5000 Ultra was my very first sampler....even before my MPC or SP1200....let alone the Ensoniq EPS 16+(which is recent and you helped turn me on to them thank you)....I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out until I read the manual cover to cover...twice. Once I got the Ensoniq I finally discovered why people love them. By the time I’ve made one sample and keymapped it in the emu I’ve made 4 complete instruments in the EPS....and it’s crazy how a sampler made in 1989 has FAR better effects than one made in the early 2000’s. You’re right about the sound though. I often use the Emu as a repository for sounds from the other samplers to run in multi mode, in order to free them up for more sampling!
Really glad you picked up an EPS 16+! Congrats! The EMU samplers do sound great. I think the E5000 is a gem!!!!
Thanks for replying man! Love your videos and style. even though we do completely different types of music, we use almost the exact same samplers and workflow. My EPS is now my master board due to it's amazing polyphonic aftertouch.
You're welcome man! That's amazing that the EPS is your main board! Polyphonic after touch is such a great feature!
Hi... I enjoyed watching your esi video. You really get to a lot of important details in your initial thoughts videos. Cool stuff. You might want to recheck the chronology that you mentioned. I am almost positive that it's 32, 4000, then 2000, unless a turbo version came after 2000. I got 2000 brand new in 2000 and I think the menu system it has is a bit rigid but it grew on me. Shortcut buttons when in general editing modes are very useful for speed.
What's up man! Thanks for watching! You're right the 2000 was the last revision. The Turbo Zip was in production up until 2000.Peace,TDS
I also use one called e/synth which is a e4k with a rom full of synth stuff and more effects that I find pretty good
ive got 2 ESI4000T i just picked up a Keystep pro. its a very good pairing
The ESI-32 has a max of 32mb of ram. If you upgrade the ESI-32 with version 3.0 or higher (you get all the filters found in later units). However I agree that these samplers are tricky to get used too..
+Caleb Garner What's up Caleb! I didn't know that! I really only use the classic ESI-32 filter in most cases. It sounds the best to me. Thanks for sharing!
I've been thinking of dropping mine because an E6400 Ultra with 100 gig HD has popped up on Craigslist recently, but if I can find an external SCSI HD for my ESI, I can live without the resampling and Z-plane filters.
Great review. I was looking into these samplers a few years ago, but decided to go with a different sound. I got the s900 for about $100 instead.
What up man! Thanks! Yeah you definitely made the better choice in getting the S900. That's a better value for sure. Peace, TDS
EMU is great.... but i still love the ENSONIQ machines =) cheers DayDream!
What's up man! Me too!Peace,TDS
Peace. I sequenced a demo in 2005 with Pro Tools 5 and a keystation 49e all the Emu samplers sound warmer than my akais
its cuz akais were linear phase input
I know Effects A/B can work parallel or in chain but I send audio to SUBMIX1 (external fx unit) and also to Effect B, how is it routed? Sounds like 2 separate signals
I have some issues with floppy in my ESI 4000. I've replaced the original ZIP drive which was broken down by the previous owner with a regular FDD 1.44 MB. When I turn the power on the floppy rotates but doesn't "mount" it in the sampler. Any ideas?
I had that problem with my ZipDrive. I had the rack on an angle when I set it flat it sorted out that problem but If I were you I would check the connections to see if they're seated correctly to the motherboard and the drive and use some contact spray and compressed air to clean the contacts.
It's the Esi 32 then the Esi 4000 and Esi 4000 turbo (which had the Turbo EFX card already installed) then the cost effective Esi 2000.
Yep!
@@TheDaydreamSound LOL I already posted on your site 4 years ago to give you a heads up.
@@arthurallsopp9344 You still don't get it 🤣 no one cares....
Can make a simple tutorial, show how sampling and place the samples in keyboard zones and create a preset? Best regards from brazil.. great video!
+Riva Lima What's up man! Thanks for reaching out. Glad you like the video! Much appreciated! Possibly in the near future. The ESI series samplers are not the most straight forward samplers but it does give you more than one way to do things.
thanks bro :)
+Riva Lima very easy to sample , you dont have to place or split zones or truncate samples since it does it automatically (the functions are all entered in sample management number 5 pages) , just press sample management then 5 , it shows the input monitor and press the right cursor arrow twice , on that page set the amount of keyrange that you want the esi to adress for each new sample ,press escape , now press 5 again to monitor your inputs and the material you want to sample , press 8 to start
sampling and escape to stop sampling , once sampling done press 0 to select next new sample slot otherwise it will
erase the last sample with a new one ,then save it as a bank since that includes all samples and presets in memory and lets you load combine presets seperate from several banks later on , i have a load of samplers including akai , ppg , yamaha , ensoniq and emu and the esi , asr and su700 are the quickest to get around no mather what others tell you
thanks so much!
what do you think about the "Z plane" filters? because when i was considering buying one, that was why i was more into the 2000/4000 over the esi-32
What's up! Yeah they are worth going for the 2000 over the 32. The z plane filters are pretty good.
Does the esi 4000 come with and inbuilt samples ? I'm waiting for my 4000 to arrive, I'm hoping to hook it up to my atari STE and cubase. Sadly, it comes with no disks.
What's up Richard! The ESI-4000 is a straight sampler. It doesn't come with any sounds but you can sample any sound you want into it.
Do you really think the esi-32 converters/sound differ from the 4000?
Also the 2000 was actually the final ESi iteration! Dig your channel. take care
+James Boyle What's up James! Thanks for reaching out! I definable heard a difference between the ESI 2000 and the 4000. I preferred the 2000. You're absolutely right about the 2000 being the last version
+TheDaydreamSound interesting. I just purchased an ESi 4000 turbo after watching some of your channel. Some have claimed that the ESi 2000 has cheaper a/d converters than the rest of the range. Even if that is so, cheaper isn't always worse when it comes to a/d. The Akai s2000 is a budget s3000xl but I love the sound of the converters and own several of these of them! Great channel there just isn't enough info on some of these lesser know machines. keep it up!
good video, I used to have a esi 32 in the 90's , great filter however as you mentioned it is such a pain to program
What's up man!!!!!!! Thanks for watching!!!! Yep! I get the why its laid out the way that it is. I just think it could be more straight forward but the filter is worth it!!!
Hi Daydream sound! Do you know if there is USB Emulators available for the zip drive? P.S. You have a dope channel! Thanks!
What's up Felippe!!! I don't know much about USB emulators but I'm pretty sure there are some compatible ones out there.
@@TheDaydreamSound Yo! Thanks for the quick reply! I'm having hard time finding any. Im wondering if a normal gotek floppy emulator would do?
You're welcome man!!! They might work. I have very little experience with any type of emulator. I could swear that I've seen them in an ESI before though.
@@TheDaydreamSound Cool! I hope I'll find one!
Menu diving ain't so bad once you learn the shortcuts......that's where people tend to differ, some people continue riding the jog dial while others learn to punch in what they want straight away.....like say I want to cut a loop, I just work out what the length for the tempo is in seconds, covert that to samples and punch it in.....whereas I see some people prefer to wear out the jog dial like they are cracking a safe all day long.
Let me guess? You tried the Parallel zipdrive instead of the SCSI one? I made the same mistake
What's up man! Nope I just wasn't paying enough attention. Lol!
bro i dont understand how to use fx on turbo board/connections to mixer)i need use one Ycable from turbo board to mixer without main outs or use both?
What up! Yeah you'll need to use both. You also have to adjust the FX send level on the main FX page. I agree it's pretty confusing. Hope this helps.
thanx to you))respect
You're welcome!!!!!!
@@TheDaydreamSound If you don't need sub1, you can use one Y cable. Main, Sub2, Sub3 are routed to FX.
Have you tried any of the EMU EOS samplers?
+thatawfulsound What's up! Thanks for reaching out! I've never personally used one. There was a time when I was going to pick up an E6400 series sampler but I left that action by the way side.
bro can i chopping samples on esi like akai mpc(mutegroup)diferent samples?
Thanks for reaching out! I'm really not sure to be honest. I've never tried it. I'm leaning towards no; but possibly you might be able to control the mute-groups from an MPC if you used it as the sequencer.
you can truncate & place samples across a keyboard . i.e. so you might truncate (chop) a sample & place it on a key & repeat for the others. if you make the preset monophonic / or turn solo mode on it would act like a mute group in that only one sample could play at a time & hitting another key would interrupt the sample to play the next etc etc. the actual chopping would be different & longer to do than on MPCs
Will this read an EMAX II drive, CD-ROMS or disks ? thnx
What's up KarzenX!
Hope all's well! I'm not sure. I've never tried it. I'm leaning towards saying yes but I'd just be guessing.
TheDaydreamSound it will indeed. And you can use disk utility in a mac to make disc images of E-MU cd-roms to be read by Kontakt 5. EMAX2 was a nightmare to poke around in and too many damn disks. Super slow processing. Hopefully 2000s and 4000s faster
A nightmare learning curve
What's up LFOVCF!!! Thanks for watching!!! It's definitely has a more old school layout. I appreciate it a lot more than I use to in the past.
Good Morning Eveyrone! Edited and put together in London City. Here are my thoughts on the ESI-4000 Turbo Sampler.
ESI-4000 Turbo Zip Initial Thoughts by The Daydream Sound | UK Edition
Here's the fact checking. The Esi 2000 was the LAST release. Not the 2nd. You make great video's just fix the voice over.
@@arthurallsopp9344 Don’t try to play like your intentions were pure. Nice try!
Now back to you and your life accomplishments.
Oh look who’s last in line again! instagram.com/p/BtYztNVhpY2/ You’re a certified afterthought.
And by the way; How did you manage to age a quarter century in a couple of years? 🤣🤣 🤣🤣 🤣🤣
Your issue Arthur is that you equate your self-worth with the gear you own and you’re convinced that everyone else does as well; Which is why you think it’s important to “fact check” a YT vid. Ironically this behavior has prevented you from seeing how dysfunctional that makes you look.
Again. Unless you can contribute positively to this online platform instead of being a faceless avatar with poor social skills and no content, Don’t ever fix your geriatric jowls to critic the content of this channel. The nerve of some folk 🤣
@@TheDaydreamSound LOL your hilarious Bud good luck.
@@arthurallsopp9344 What's hilarious is the quality of your life. Slanging gear one commission check at a time! instagram.com/p/7L8ZS9LGRv/ What did you with your life to be working at Guitar Center at that age? Please never speak of luck. It's something that you're lacking in life.
Always remember. You're on my channel. Nobody. Literally nobody is interested in anything you're doing online and off. This is probably the most attention you've gotten in your life. However, it's time that this dialogue comes to an end. Go now and think about your life. I'm living mine to great effect. You on the other hand............. well we know how things are going for you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How is the turbo difference to the non turbo one?
no effects, SPDIF and additional 4 outs.
@@Blahdnb thanks! :)