EPS Sample editor
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Rich,
Do you know if there's a visual sample editing system for the Ensoniq EPS?
Barry
No, I don't know. There are a couple for the Mirage, but I don't really know
about the EPS.
Speaking of which, do you like yours? What are its good and bad points?
Rick
Rich,
The EPS is a great machine. There's no contest between it and the Amiga's
sampling capabilities (and at the cost of an A2000 there shouldn't be!).
It has incredible power to manipulate sampled sound. It's a 16 bit machine
(68000 based) . It has very clean sound-(sampling rate at up to 52.1 Khz (and
just about anything lower). Ensoniq's claim is 96db dynamic range and frequency
response of 20hz-20Khz +0, -3 dB.
I think it's input filters are set on the liberal side and you tend to
end up with mild hiss on samples with a lot of high frequency (I've been told
that this is due to aliasing noise) which leads to a trip to the filter page (4
user setable filters, high or low pass in just about any combination you can
think of). I don't like this much, as you know my primary interest is sampling
sound effects, and with so many, I don't want to spend a lot of time tweaking,
so I just encode everything with dbx.
It's manipulative power is also it's weakness. You can do just about
anything to a sample and it's auto looping function is great! (I've only
encountered one "unloopable" sound and a good loop is usually had on the first
or second attempt). It's biggest problem is that neither of it's manuals have
an index! Ughh! There are about 150 actions you can perform and no @#%$! index!
So, how do I like it? Well, I'm considering buying the rack mount version to
compliment the keyboard.
Barry
Barry, Just for the record…the EPS sample data is actually 13-bit, not
16-bit.
John
Sort of, it's DA converters are 13 bit, all internal processing is 24 bit.
However the 68000, which the EPS is based on, is 16 bit 🙂
Barry
Oops, almost forgot, it's data storage format is 16 bit.
Barry
Barry,
I saw the EPS demo'ed last month; I WANT one!! Alas, my wallet says no
way. Can I ask how much you paid for it? My impression was that it over $1500.
Is the rack-mount version much cheaper? (Never thought I'd see the day when you
could sit down to a keyboard that had a SCSI-port option!)
Karl
Karl,
I bought the EPS from Bernie at MAO and I reccomend him. I don't really
remember what I paid, however, just a couple of weeks ago I asked Bernie to
plex me his prices-these are the latest that I have. EPS $1396 (list $1995),
EPS rack $2306 (list $3295). Yes, the standard rack mount is more
expensive-but, it has no options, comes standard with 4X memory and SCSI
portoptions on the keyboard.
Barry
Thanks for the comeback. Sounds like an interesting machine! — Rick