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Originally Posted by disturb  Anyone care to enlighten me on the differences between the roland s750/60/70 ?
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Here is what I think I know!
The 750 and 770 are basically the same. The 770 has a digital interface, balanced main outs on XLR and an internal hard drive.
RAM is 18 mb max on the S-750 and 16 mb max on the S-770 (because the 750 has 2mb ram built in whereas the 770 doesn't).
When buying an S-750 CHECK it has extra Ram. The RAM is cheap as chips, BUT you need an expansion board to move from 2MB up. If it doesn't have the board, I have no clue if you could find one anywhere.
They have BRILLIANT converters and are IMHO some of the best sounding samplers ever built. A trio I would call top rate are the Emulator III (not the later IIIx/E4/E64/6400 etc series I'm afraid), Fairlight III and S-750/770. I have worked on many samplers and these three are the daddies. I still have the S-750 and SP700 and my Series III fairlight. Alas, I no longer have an EIII but would love one. I do have an EII+ which is great, but the EIII is king of the EMUs The Roland having the big advantage amongst those 3 of being the most reliable and cheapest!
The S-760 can have 32mb ram and is a very nice sampler, but to my ears sounds different to the S-750. No idea why. Maybe different converters or whatever. It still sounds VERY good btw. I think for strings and such like, it's excellent, but the low end on the S-750/770 is deeper and more powerful. The S-760 can read Akai S-1000 disks via SCSI btw
There is a Turbo version of the S-750 (mine was upgraded by Roland) which gives it a faster processor I think for midi data and processing. In any case, the S-750 has about the best midi timing of any sampler.
The SP700 is a playback version of the S-750/770 but has 32 meg ram, 4 stereo outputs (the 750 has 2 stereo and 6 mono) and can read Akai but has no Mouse control or RGB output. Sounds like the S-750/770. Great as an S-750 expander.