Have you ever read the specs on the full line of E-MU Ultra samplers and dreamed of what you could accomplish with that much power, only to wake up and realize that you just can't scrape together that much cash at once?

Well, now you can own an E-MU Ultra rackmount sampler for less than you'd pay for your average synthesizer! The new E5000 delivers Ultra Emulator performance at a truly breakthrough price. Based on the same hardware as the professional e6400 Ultra, E4XT Ultra and E-Synth Ultra samplers, the E5000 Ultra provides 64 voices of sampling with 128MB RAM capacity for only $1695 retail (yes, that's correct: $1695!). The new sampler is identical to the e6400 Ultra with the exception that it is limited to 64 voices, has four outputs instead of 8 (expandable to 12), and has a green backlit LCD display.

The E5000 Ultra's flexible hardware has been developed to let you add features and options as you need them. The E5000 gives you eight expansion ports (five internal and 3 rear-panel) that accomodate additional hardware options like the multi-channel ADAT card, the R-Chip FX processor, Sound ROMs, Flash ROM and additional Analog and Digital I/O cards.

In addition to these upgrades, the E5000 Ultra's 50-pin SCSI connector offers you compatibility with a variety of mass storage devices, including external hard disks (up to 18 GB), CD-ROMs, SyQuest, Jaz, Zip and others, for total flexibility in storing your sounds and projects. The SCSI port also supports connection to a host computer allowing you to control your E5000 Ultra remotely, or take advantage of the wide variety of Audio / MIDI software by third-party manufacturers to enhance its many professional features even further.

Most importantly, the E5000 Ultra is fully EOS compliant, which means it can take advantage of all the performance features offered via the Emulator Operating System enhancements that have occurred regularly since the E4 line was introduced five years ago. The E5000 also has all the E-MU DSP feature such as linear phase filter, bit reduction processing, and the very popular Beat Munging realtime groove processing software feature. Beat Munging allows the user to automatically loop a rhythmic groove and manipulate it in a variety of ways including changing tempo in real time, changing time signature, or removing or restoring beats. Now there's no excuse for not becoming an E-MU Ultra owner yourself.

Talk to your Sweetwater Sales Engineer to find out the best way to configure the E5000 for your system today. Have your credit card ready. When you find out your low ProNet pricing on this sampler, there's no question that you're going to want to have it in your studio tomorrow!

ESI 2000. Okay, so maybe you're not quite ready for the power and flexibility of E-MU's Ultra line of digital samplers. Or maybe you've already got several other samplers but you'd like to take advantage of the tremendous E-MU sound library and could use 64 more voices of sampler polyphony (who couldn't?). Either way, you'll be blown away by the price-point of E-MU's most affordable sampler ever: An instrument offering all of the professional features that you have come to expect from the leader in digital sampling at the astonishing breakthrough retail price of just $995 (and you know your Sweetwater Sales Engineer will do even better than that!).

And even at this amazing price, the ESI 2000 still offers you the industry's most intuitive user interface, putting an incredible amount of power at your fingertips while keeping almost all functions just one or two button-pushes away. With its unbeatable combination of features, friendly interface and affordable price, the ESI 2000 sampler is clearly the best value on the market today. Let's talk features. You get 64 voices of polyphony which allows you to layer and playback huge sequences, 4MB of sample RAM (standard) upgradable to a full 128MB giving you the ability to load gigantic sounds and entire banks of instruments. Its 64 digital 6-pole filters (19 different types) let you tweak your sounds and fit them in your mix. And once you've got your mix together, you can send the audio to the 4 separate analog outputs (expandable to 8 plus a stereo-effects output and S/PDIF digital I/O with the Turbo Option Board) for maximum flexibility. The SCSI interface gives you easy integration with your computer, CD-ROM, and other storage media allowing access to the huge sound library available from E-MU / Ensoniq and other third-party companies.

With the choice of either the E5000 Ultra or the ESI 2000, there's never been a better time in the entire history of digital samplers to bring your music into the 21st Century. Contact your Sweetwater Sales Engineer and he (or she) will help you put together a system that is worthy of your studio. They'll also be glad to give you a super low Sweetwater price that's sure to make you smile.