• EMULATOR SERIES:
  the samplers , that Depeche Mode or F242 had on stage..
  The E II was the first one with filters (analogue) and ENV
  the E III still had analogue filters and lots of things that definied the hardware sampler category as a reference,
• the emax and emax II were samplers , sort of analogue filtered pendant to the EIII but cheaper.. to compete with the EPS16+ / ASR10 etc by the company Emu bought later : ensoniq. the first emax had analogue filters, the II introduced the convolve / transform multiplication (morphing 2 samples to one offline) algorithm, very impressing!! those time.. later E models had it on board, too..
• the EIV , E64(00) and E5000 and ultra series along with the esynth changed over to the z-plane type of filters coming from the morpheus
• the later ESI series was simply a smaller version of the EIV series..
• beside the Emulator Series Emu did lots of ROM Modules with rather not so many synth capabilities like proteus first series ..
  later modules were based on the 12pole filter system like
  -Orbit, Proteus2000 and followups
  some rom modules specialiszed on genres like mo’phat, planet phat, carnival etc..
  very interesting module was the audity 2000 which reminds (namely) the old blue audity system that has never been released .. the audity is also a 1 Unit Rack Synth – the LFOs and ENVs can be tempo sync’ed and it has quite interesting mod capabilities like orbit etc..
  the FATHER OF THESE MODULES IS/ARE:
• EMU MORPHEUS and ULTRA PROTEUS with so called Z-plane filters with 14poles and 197 Filter Types with 3 Filter parameters.. the Ultra had about 255 filter Types, both had 3 ENVs plus 2 very complex 8stage envelopes with chaos and other modulation, loop and things to jump whenever things (if… then..) are true.. silly FX, bad integrated, but overall cool modules.

Proteus 2000 with Z-plane filters..
<–Proteus2000 – thx to Comboy

<–Proteus2000 – thx to Comboy

Proteus 2500 with “groovebox” style sequencer
<– proteus 2500 pic by fairlight

• Emu is owned by CREATIVE LABS now and bought Ensoniq earlier (as E-mu)..
• german/deutsch: Sampler
• german (D) / deutsch: über ensoniq, die von Emu vorher gekauft wurden.
• more to come s.o.o.n about EMU…

used by Front242 on “no comment” or Depeche Mode on “work hard” (a b-side)

it has 12 Drumsounds and 4 Pads. Of course all sounds can be used in a pattern but you need to re-assign the pads, thats very easy: hold the pad and press the desired drumsound. E-mu is the name that came from E-µ (mu / mü)

the model shown has a retrofitted roland din-sync, it’s not standard ;)

but the individual outs are, some are cinch some are standard mono jacks.. i have no idea why they used cinch ;)

the sounds: to all who never listened to the “no comment” CD by Front 242 or DAF “fünfzehn neue DAF lieder”: quite hard and ebm-like but also with punch from “below”..

of course the drumulator name came from the legandary emulator series, they did the Emulator 1, II , III, IV .. possibly the best known samplers ever..

E-mu Drumulator..+ SP1200/SP12 – for your own samples..

they also did a very innovative modular system, the e-mu modular

they did one of the first polyphonic keyboard and digital sequencers and lots of innovative technologies at THAT time..

Emulator Ultra software/remote software.

software ultra serie

leider wird der softare-”Emulator IV” nur einen 24dB LPF bekommen, keine z-plane filter.. (angeblich wegen des h-chip,der die filter berechnet) nunja: selber schuld.. dann verkauft NI eben mehr “kontakt” sampler – also nur remote mit allen filtermodellen!

SAMPLER in hardware ,sampler in synthesizern? grooveboxen? sampler in sequencern? audiostream als samplerersatz? hier eine sicht aus dem ausgehenden jahrtausend und die zukunft der reinen hardwaresampler—

imo ist ein GUTER sampler, wenn er gute klangqualität hat, eine vernünftige FX und filtersektion. zusammengenommen eine gute klangmaschine.
es fing mit eher rudimentären geräten wie dem akai s612 an, der ansich nix kann und mit samplezeit für alle samples bei guten 1.2secs leben musste.. nur eins: schieberegler als start und endpunkteinstellung. das gabs dann nicht mehr oft..
nach megateuren maschinen wie emulator 1 und 2 (beide 8bit und 5stellig im preis) waren dann die ersten bezahlbaren schon akais s-serie und ensoniq mirage (auch 8bit). endlich konnte man für einen “normalen” preis samplen: preise von 3500DM bis 10000DM für mirage und s1000.. der s1000 war aber trotz seines erfolges ansich nicht sehr reich an möglichkeiten..

beispiele willst du sicher: die emulator serie ab II und emax sind zB gute filter-monster, die FX sektion ist eher mässig (E IV),aber dafürf haben die neueren (E IV,esi4000,E64 etc..) spannende filter und man kann ne menge damit anstellen.

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