Glad to hear that it made it ok - looks pretty damn cool in that rack as well! Yeah I never found the filters on the Akais to be much of a strong point either - they tend to be more functional than pleasing.
@ LivePsy, I have tried a few softies for samplng as well, but I always head back to the hardware. I think as I have a set of outputs routed to the Emu at all time, it's just natural to bounce things to it - and something happens when you record into the analogue ins (probably quality loss
) that I like. Then there's the filters etc. Hey what version of Live are you using?