Yeah I'm very familiar with an ESX, I had one but I sold it to make room for the MV. I do miss it though, I liked how you can sample yourself tweaking and fiddling with a beat until it becomes something new. Its those tubes and 32Hz sampling rate that gave it that dirt sound. The most easiest sampler to work with, dudes thought it was some hi-tech ish with all the knobs.

I just wanted to clear some thing up on the ESX.

1. The tubes actually do not help the sound, the more you turn it up the muddier it gets. (with factory tubes)
2. The factory tubes create a lot of white noise, these can be replaced to get a crunchier/warmer sound with less noise. ($40 upgrade)
3. ESX samples at 44.1khz (only sample mode). You have mono or stereo. No lofi modes.
4. ESX AC adapter is VERY noisy (I've confirmed this with 2 other owners). It will vibrate and hum if you put the ac adapter on a desk.

The ESX is a great machine and I put a lot of time into mine over the years, but I recently sold it. It had just been collecting dust for the last year since i got my Zoom Sampletrak. If you got the money to burn pick one up. Just a warming, these machines are not for everybody.

yes
you can do lot of things with the esx
but i think that is moslty conceived for house/techno stuff (the TR sequencer)...
anyway dnb/jungle/dubstep are also good with this machine...

My bad, 32kHz was on the ES-1. But the tubes were meant to distort and fry your sound. Combine that with the effects and filters and such, and you can really get dirty. Depends how you ride the gain for the tubes to get a warm sound.

I don't know about the AC since I kept it on the floor, but even during quiet days I never heard it hum.

But yeah, its aimed toward the DnB crowd, but dope for live HipHop and experimentals.

thought id keep the thread going, new addition to the lab, thanks to acities

canuck did you have to trade away the 303?

Unfortunately I did, but its in the very trustworthy hands of a previous owner, and I've got an intensive search going for another SP as we speak. The 2000 has been cool so far though, big difference from the 303, but I like what I've seen so far.

take care of my baby!!!!! lol.

so ya did make that trade, nice!!! looks good.

hahah ...ive touched that same 303 as well.. T dot stand the fuck up

haha yeah that 303 made its way all around Toronto

I purchased my 303 from Pauls Boutique in Toronto online for 175$. Great deal eh. T Dot got them 303's for sure.

I hate Chang, but that is a great avatar. Are you on NeoGeo boards as well?

i didnt knew it was an existing shop...i only knew this sop by the cover of the album by beastie boys in the '80...

http://www.paulsboutique.ca/ . Sorry about putting this shit off topic, I'll post a studio flik pretty soon.