The ESI-4000 64-voice digital sampler is E-MU's latest professional, low-cost entry in to the sampler market. E-MU is famous for it's sampling technology, and the ESI-4000 has it all: professional features, superb sound quality, thousands of sounds standard, and exceptional expansion capabilities. Utilizing the popular interface found on the original ESI-32, the ESI-4000 is consistent with E-MU's philosophy of making high end technology easy to use. Almost every feature is only one or two button pushes away, so you get all of the results and power without any of the wait and frustration. The ESI-4000 upholds the ESI tradition with it's unbeatable combination of great features and affordable price, making it the best sampler value in its class—Emulator technology at a breakthrough price.

Extended information

Exceptional features - The ESI-4000 offers an exceptional feature set complete with 64-voice polyphony; up to 128 MB of sample RAM; 64 digital 6-pole filters (19 different types); and a host of powerful DSP capabilities including time compression and expansion, parametric EQ, and digital tuning. Creating your own samples is fast and efficient with the ESI-4000's built-in sampling and editing tools. Some of these tools include manual and automatic truncation, cross-fade looping, cut, copy, paste, normalization, and automatic correlation for easy looping. Add ten programmable trigger buttons for firing off grooves, without having to use a keyboard, and you have an indispensable tool for all of your music making and sound generating projects. To top off this comprehensive feature set, ESI-4000's intuitive user interface is simple to learn and a pleasure to use.

Extreme Expandability - Available in three varieties, Standard, Turbo, and Turbo Zip, there’s an ESI-4000 for any need. The ESI-4000 Turbo offers two additional stereo subouts, an effects stereo submix, two 24-bit stereo effects processors,
and S/PDIF digital I/O. The Turbo effects section offers more than 30 effects and four stereo submixes per processor and high quality reverb, delay, chorus, flange, and even distortion algorithms. The extra outputs and digital I/O give you greater mixing and sampling flexibility. You can upgrade the ESI-4000’s sampling memory from the standard 16 MB all the way up to 128 MB with industry standard 72-pin SIMMs. At a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, that’s over 25 minutes of mono sampling time! The ESI-4000 Turbo Zip comes from the factory with all of the Turbo features and replaces the standard 3.5 inch floppy drive with a convenient Iomega Zip drive, providing 100 MB of sample storage on a convenient
removable Zip disk. You can upgrade your standard ESI-4000 to an ESI-4000 Turbo using the ESI Turbo Option Kit.

Technical specifications

Powerful DSP - The ESI-4000 has all the tools you need to meet any sample editing requirement. These tools include:
• Stereo phase-locked time compression/expansion makes your samples longer or shorter without changing the pitch.
• Pitch change changes the pitch of your samples without changing
the time.
• Sample rate conversion gives you extra sampling time by changing the sample rate after the sound has been sampled.
• Doppler/pan effect gives you complete control of the stereo field.
• Exciter adds life and crispness to your samples.
• Parametric EQ allows you to adjust the overall tonal character of your samples.
• Transform multiply allows you to merge two sounds together, then accentuates frequencies common to both and discards uncommon frequencies – you've got to hear it to believe it!
• Cut, copy, paste are the basic editing functions for slicing and dicing your samples.
• Auto truncate saves time when sampling by automatically taking off the start, end, or both as soon as the sample is taken.
• Crossfade looping virtually eliminates any clicks or pops in your looped samples.
• Audio scrub helps you find that perfect loop point.
• Auto normalize changes the gain of your samples to give you the best signal-to-noise ratio.
• Compressor reduces the dynamic range of your sample and gives a punchier, tighter sound to your kicks and basses.