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E-mu • ESI-4000

The ESI-4000 is a professional sampler at a breakthrough price! It's a 64 voice sampler with 16 MB sampling (expandable to 128 MB). The ESI-4000 is basically a fully upgraded ESI-32, with double the polyphony! There is a host of powerful DSP capabilities and sample editing tools including time compression and expansion, parametric EQ, and digital tuning, manual and automatic truncation, cross-fade looping, cut, copy, paste, normalization, transform multiply and automatic correlation for easy looping.

Well equipped for studio use, the ESI-4000 ships with 4 analog outputs and a standard built-in SCSI interface for easy integration with your computer, CD-ROM, and other storage media. The ESI-4000 is available in three varieties: Standard, Turbo, and Turbo Zip. The Turbo offers two additional stereo sub-outs, an effects stereo submix, two 24-bit stereo effects processors, and S/PDIF digital I/O. The Turbo Zip comes with all of the Turbo features and replaces the standard 3.5 inch floppy drive with an Iomega Zip drive. The Standard ESI-4000 can be upgraded using the ESI Turbo Option Kit. With its ability to grow with your needs, the ESI-4000 may be the only sampler you'll ever need to buy!

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Smurfytte

Posted 56 days ago

Just bought one myself for 175USD and it rules. everything they said is true!!! it's warm and fuzzy and sounds very full. This is an awesome sampler for the current prices there at!!! There not so good for controlling remotely and use some old tech but that's why we have MIDI!!! it sounds beautiful and much better than a soft sample will ever sound.

PrincessKrunk

Posted 60 days ago

Just picked up a ESI-4000 for $100 w/ turbo and internal ZIP. Honestly, these sound like a massive pain in the a$$ and rely on totally broke and obselete formats (ZIP, SCSI, etc.) without the possibility of workarounds offered by the later EOS samplers (e.g. no WAV import, etc.)...

BUT... for the price of a nice dinner out with my beau or a couple weeks' worth of Starbucks, [beep] , right? I need a hardware sampler with submix outs to use live and this looks like it'll work (the ol' daw doesn't like travelling anymore and people who bring laptops on stage [beep] ... why don't you just plug in your iPod touch and call yourself a musician?)

eyerish

Posted 390 days ago

I had the esi-32 and 2000 and 4000. I sold the 32 and 2000 but kept the 4000. I love it. I put the digital expansion in it and I have a hard drive and cd drive in an enclosure for it but I find that my 1 gig Jaz drive is my goto for this machine. I have all my samples on a few jaz disks and it works quickly and I can use it while I am editing and all. I am so an amateur but own a crapload of boards and such but the three I keep on at all times is my Casio wk3500 and My Roland D50 and My E-mu esi-4000. I like the korg legacy software as well so my other boards just sit and look nice mostly. The 4000's low price and excellent usability make it a great choice. mine has 32 megs up from stock 4,more then enough for me and when I say I added the digital I mean the turbo. I left the 3.5 disk drive in it and use as I said the 1 gig Jaz

John E

Posted 523 days ago

Plus points - amazing filters, great for Acid Techno; very cheap second-hand prices ($100 up, not the $800 quoted in 'Specifications'); robust and reliable; good 'official' sample library on CD which includes sound sets from 'Planet Phatt' and 'Orbit' modules (the full sample set on CD is worth more than the sampler itself!); good user-base of dedicated enthusiasts spread over several forums; SCSI interface makes adding CD and Hard drives straightforward; PC interface also possible (and much better for sample editing).
User manual downloadable from :
http://www.manualnguide.com/download/manual-guide/e-mu-esi- 4000-users-manual.html
Minus points - limited display size makes sample editing tricky; initially simple operation hides big learning curve to get the best results; no more E-MU official support, not even software updates; not worth much without Turbo board fitted. And it has to be said, cheap PCs with software sampling solutions have really made this device obsolete.

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