Quote Originally Posted by g
this is clearly not the point but given all the things that have happened in the last couple years, i can't help wondering: why not kontakt or some other soft sampler? hell, you could arguably buy/build a new computer strictly for use as a sampler and spend less, get more.

...ok, not less than an S2000 or ESI but i think we can all agree that's a pretty bad choice, considering. but once you talk about a spec'd out top emu or akai...
But the quality of it depends on your computer i\o , if you actually want to record samples from hardware and stuff then you need decent converters and multiple i/o and most soundcards dont have them under a few hundred quid and if they do they are usually shite, one more thing, if my pc ****s up, i can still make tunes as the emu has a fully functioning sequencer . By the time you have bought a computer ,soundcard ,sofware,
you wouldnt have much change out of 2000 grand