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Post by gwenhwyfaer on Nov 30, 2006 1:17:51 GMT
There's a little pawn shop down the road from me that has an S3000XL in its window for £89. I'm rather tempted, I must confess, but chances are it has just the base spec (ie only 2Mb RAM, only a floppy for storage, no filter or effects boards) and I doubt the shop owner will know the specifics - but it does seem a remarkably good deal for the creature, nonetheless! So here's my question... is it worth buying as well as my existing gear, or does it not do anything a Fusion wouldn't do? (Or, for that matter, anything an SB Live or EWS64s wouldn't do...)
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Post by Hollow Sun on Nov 30, 2006 2:38:25 GMT
Tempting indeed but (despite my loyalty to 'old' Akai - I had a hand in the design of the S3kXL!), I'd say it's not worth it and it wouldn't offer anything Fusion can't provide on the sampling stakes. You'd be lumbered with an old proprietary disk/file format as well.
If you didn't have a Fusion, my response would be very different but Fusion does pretty much everything the S3kXL can. The S3kXL's UI is a little slicker (being a dedicated sampler) and it offers (rudimentary) offline timestretch but very little else that Fusion doesn't already provide you with.
The S3kXL is a great little stand-alone sampling workhorse (even today) and I would recommend one to anyone in an instant (especially at that price) but not if they already had a Fusion!
Your call though!
Steve
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Post by gwenhwyfaer on Nov 30, 2006 3:32:35 GMT
I was pretty much thinking the same thing, actually... thanks for seconding my own conclusions (and, er, for saving me ninety quid...)
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