E-MU Emulator II

The Emulator II is one of the most successful compilation of the 1980s.

The Emulator II in 1984 brought by the company E-MU Systems as a successor to the 1983 emulator I spilled on the market, and it would be almost did not come because of major financial difficulties of the company to do so. Although the Emulator II still used an 8 -bit resolution, but the amplitudes of the samples were not absolute, but is stored as a delta. Only the amplitude change and not the amplitude itself, so it has been saved. This allowed a better resolution and thus sound quality of the samples. Another great advantage of the emulator II was that he was with sampling analog synthesizer technology combined by you could edit the sounds comprehensively using VCAs, VCFs and LFOs. He also offered all at that time modern interfaces. They had the opportunity by software, such as on the Apple Macintosh, the emulator to program.

Two more versions of the emulator II appeared in 1985, the emulator II with 1 MB of memory, later the emulator II HD followed with an internal 20 MB hard drive. The successor, the Emulator III, in 1988 came on the market and offered Sampling CD quality (16 bit, 44.1 kHz).

The Emulator II sampler were mid-1980 widely used and very successful. A Emulator II can be seen as on the video of Genesis Invisible Touch, but you can find him in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day. Designed by Peter Saville 12 " record cover of the play " Blue Monday " by New Order was from that 5.25" inspired floppy disk that was used with the emulator synthesizer for storing the samples with which this hit was also composed.

Other users have included: Depeche Mode, Front 242, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Deep Purple, Holger Hiller

• Keyboard
• Sampler