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At the 01.03.1996, hekr@oslonett.no (Henning Kristiansen) had nothing better to do,
so he decided to talk about "Re: Any dates set for OctaMED S/S PC version":

> >>techno, piano tracks, rave, jungle, atmospheric, jazz etc.  That's probably
> >>why I want a fairly versatile card.  Any ideas which card (under $2000) is
> >>the one for me?  Thanx.
> >Sod soundcards, get a Roland S-760 rackmount midi sampler, good bass, 32
> >channel polyphony, you'll get that within your budget and no soundcard will
> >sound as good.
> Nope! the Roland S-760 has 24 channel polyphony not 32!
> But i'm WERY happy with it and it's the numba 1 midi equipment i think!

Besides the fact that VERY is spelled V.E.R.Y and NOT WERY...

One should also think about the S2000. You can get it definitely for under
$2000 !!! 32 polyphony, 16 Part multimode, Average-good low pass resonant
filters, 2MB on board (Expandable to 32), SCSI-Interface on board,
FX-Board as a ca. $500 upgrade, Expandable with 8 Separate outputs,
A second filter bank, 16 MB FlashRom, GM-Wavetable and more...

The used A/D/A Tec is the same as in the high end samplers S3000/S3200 !

This machine has several advantages over the Roland:

- Greater polyphony
- Greater expandability
- The Sxxxx Series is a definite Industrial Standard (Important when buying
  CDROMS...
- The S2000 is CHEAPER (At least here in germany) (around $1700)

The disadvantages:

- The Roland has better synthesis (Out of the famous JV-Series...)
  * Better Filters (Lowpass/Bandpass/Highpass)
  * You can connect a monitor and a mouse for sample editing (by adding a
    special interface board: $300)
  * You have two separate Stereo Audio outs
  * Nice Equalizer functions on board (The fx-board of the S2k has a very
    nice EQ, too)

Oh, BTW: The company is called AKAI... (Silly me...)

so long,

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