====== E-Mu ESI 4000 ======

A 16-bit sampler with some nice features and filters. Like most old samplers the main drawback is getting sounds off and onto the thing.

===== Cool Things =====

  * You can faded from one sample to another on the same note.
  * You can assign any CC to any parameter(?). These guys used it to get a granular sythesis type thing going with a bit of one-off menu diving :O
    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OMffscu_jY
    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJdkPMNhC8
  * 

===== Storage =====

It has a zip drive, but those disks are infamous for going bad (I had to use them when I studied animation/multimedia, and can confirm, though I do have a soft-spot for them anyway). It's common to replace the disk drive with a disk drive emulator, the popular one is Gotek.

It also has a SCSI port which you can use to attach HDDs, CD drives etc. There are some SCSI SD card readers like [[https://zuluscsi.com/|ZuluSCSI]] and SCSI2SD that are a bit of a cheaper option than the Gotek. Zulu seems the best of these two, as it uses a standard FAT32/ExFAT file system so can be read on a computer.

===== See Also =====



{{tag>E-mu-Systems musical-instrument sampler}}