Emu Extreme Lead

[mitchiemasha]

Personally I'd avoid the E-mu. I had the Audity 2000 and Mophat. My friend had the XL1. It was 1 of our first bits of hardware after the Novation Drumstation. I sold mine after buying most of the disk versions locked to the E-Mu sound card. Thanks to Creative (Soundblaster) it all got very messy with drivers etc. Good luck with that Proteus VST thing, did they ever get it to work properly with newer Windows and archive disks? Still annoys me to this day how Creative killed E-MU.


If you like The Virus style of doing things go for an older 1, a Nord or a Novation. If you're trying to budget and want more Hardware, the Novation KS Rack. I prefer these over the Super Nova and they go for much cheaper on ebay. They came out just before the VST explosion so never got the chance to make their mark. Unlike The Nord and previous Novation synths.

The only romplayer I've kept is an Expanded JV1080 but my VA synths I wont sell.