Old man E-mu

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Does anyone have any opinions on the E-mu stable of soundcards. I'm particularly looking at the 1820M with the sampling package. I've got an old Proteus 1-XR but haven't checked out new stuff in years. I know Emulator goes back to the stone ages but has anyone had much to do with the Emulator X which comes with the bundle of the 1820M. Thanks.
 
They look interesting and I'm keeping an eye on them, but my personal policy is to NEVER buy anything until it's been out at least a year (let the suckers sort out the bugs and driver revisions until they are truly stable....) The reviews so far look good, but they all hailed the Audigy line, too and there was more than a bit of "creative advertising" with those....

I'd also be interested in hearing any personal experiences with them, tho.
 
Yeah I've actually got an Audigy which I bought a couple of years ago basically because it and the Hoontech were the two cheapest decently reviewed cards and the Hoontech didn't have any MIDI. I don't regret going with it though, at the time I was just interested in messing around and when I upgrade my stuff I'll hand it on to a young cousin, might get him into something musical. Being restricted to 16 bit depth is very limiting though, it's never going to sound up to par professionally. SampleCraze is a very nice site and the reviews are very thorough. It sounds like a sweet piece of gear. The fact that it's coupled with a sampler is something that's really appealing to me being a keyboard/piano player and basing my studio around my digital piano. Do either of you have any other suggestions for me to take a look at, bearing in mind that I'm going to be looking to get a decent sample bank of sounds so the price of the 1820 $553AUD - $400USD for the card alone is around about (maybe up it a bit if there's something really tasty) the range I'm looking at and that the studio is heavily keyboard/module influenced as regards my own stuff at least, although I'm seriously considering the idea of getting into the game and hiring it out once I've learned to use it well. So some cards that have some flexibility to handle a range of setups nicely. Thanks for the responses, a bit of chat helps a lot.
 
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