im lucky when i was younger i always asked my dad why you got this big old box that runs on floppy disks in the house and this was in the early 2000s when i was tiny. Then much later in life he gifted me his emu emulator 2 and its the best tech i have and ive tried loads of different samplers and keyboards but the emu emulator 2 is by far my favorite its the shape the feel the bulkyness its big and gives you exactly the 80s goodness i grew up with. and all the depeche mode alan wilder soundfonts ive been gathering feels so nice to play on the system those sounds where made for by alan
The original emulator was used exclusively to record Todd Rundgren‘s “Acappella” album. The entire album consists of sounds from Todd’s body. Foot stomps, handclaps, beat-boxing vocals etc. Nothing but a microphone, a multitrack tape machine and an Emulator 1.0 were used. Check it out!
Hey! You decided to do it. I enjoyed this little dive into the history of these. I was more nervous about meeting Dave Rossum, Dave Smith, and Roger Linn at NAMM than I ever have been any musician. I'll miss my first sampler, but it went to a loving home, and I have the Arturia emulation of the EII, I won't however miss the size of that thing and the space it took up. It would be great to see the Emax and Emax 2 talked about. They were widely used (See the Depeche Mode 101 doc for reference) and have a very tell tale sound of their own. Thanks for the video!
I have commented a few times below uploads by RetroSpund that I made a mistake back in 2000. That mistake was not trying to purchase a different E-Mu synth/sampler hybrid, the Emax. 2000 would’ve been the ideal year to get that particular model in perfect working condition without needing to spend other people’s money for it.
First, great overview of everything you are covering. Second, if people want to nit-pick over items you left out or simply misquoted due to errors before, then a polite correction of "this has often been stated this way ... but in fact is this..." type idea to help all of us with clarification is helpful. Attacks within the community of "we musicians" is simply unacceptable. Keep up the great work on these videos examining synth development and their history, I am really enjoying them! Chris
Thank you Doris for your presence, really like your special take on the "SYN"thesizer history, loved every bit and naratation it is like a meditation to listen to your beautiful positive voice. Love cheers to you and Matt. 😄💚🙏🙏🙏☯
you just reminded me of one of my favorite 80s tunes. Always wanted to know what they meant with "It's a sin"... now I get it, "it's a sin thesizer". Hold on - you started the bad jokes...
See you later?? :D Love the content band styling, hope it catches on. Love the travel vlogs too, my first holiday abroad as a kid was in the former Yugoslavia and ook ik heb in Nederland gewoont
One thing that contributed a lot to the success of emu was the library that sounded killer. Same goes for the Ensoniq mirage, but e-Mu had a great library. Akai later killed all of of these because of lower pricing but no akai sample sounded as rich and well produced as an emu sample. Too clinical , but at the time that was what people wanted.
Somewhere along the line all the samplers were replaced by digital audio workstations that eventually no longer even sampled. Many of the first generation sampler owners realized they could make money by creating quality patches with their samples and took it up full time. Anyone that's spent anytime with a sampler knows that quality playable patches take a lot of work and refining. Musicians started leaning more towards the digital workstations being released at the time that took advantage of the ever growing sampled library. I'm foggy as to when it happened but I woke up one day and realized samplers were gone! I'm not even sure if anybody is making an actual sampling keyboard? Sure, you could do it in software workstations today but I have not played with any so I don't know what kind of tools they have to edit and loop samples.
@@fuzzcityrecords432 Yes! Even the old classic guitar pedals fell off the shelves until the small independent companies revived them with their clones. Way over priced for what they are but at least someone is still making them. Korg did a nice job of remaking a digitally emulated version of one of it's old synthesizers. It's got the same physical knobs, buttons and wheels but now has a USB port in the back for additional features. I don't see why the other companies can't do the same. Just think what a monophonic Moog would be like if it looked like and acted like the original but also had the ability to be 32 voice polyphonic with velocity and after touch added? With Midi those extra voices could really be handy when being controlled by a software based studio for instance.
@@fuzzcityrecords432 The closes thing to an EMU sampler right now, particularly the EMU SP-12 from 1985 is the Electron Model:Samples out of Sweden and its like $175 on sale. Its concept basically is if Ikea made a sampler, this would be it.
I need to add some historic knowledge here. The original digital polyphonic scanning keyboard circuit came from the ref book we all have when we are in audio electronics : MUSICAL APPLICATIONS OF MICROPROCESSORS by Hal Chamberlin (one of the four testaments of my Audio Electronix bible, in my exampler i bought used there's an invoice to DAVE DUMETZ from lexicon inc...). I'm pretty shure this book is the reason SCI quit paying "royalties" to e-mu; because the actual system wasnt patented, it was explained in a book... This is why knowledge is important, some vicious scammer might find a way to take advantage of your ignorance... (no offense huh, but in 2024; ethics matter more than ever...). What is interesting to encounter, is that in the sci's (dave smith's story book) the book is credited, not e-mu... Ha!
The Audity was aimed at a much higher price than the Prophet 5. The latter though not cheap was a steal compared to the Audity which is partly why it never succeeded. Also analogue synthesis even under microprocessor control was not nearly as appealing as the limited sampling of the day.
@@anthonyman8008 ...said the man who is afraid of everything... Hey, have you not gathered? It's not the 12th century anymore where Christians can burn heretics at the stake anymore! Get off TH-cam you religious wing nut
The Emulator. The sampler and synthesising behemoths that defined the 80’s.
You kept my attention for 9 minutes without using a single sound from the Emulator and that's saying a lot.. Thank you.
I like how the wheels are labelled left and right so you don't get confused.
im lucky when i was younger i always asked my dad why you got this big old box that runs on floppy disks in the house and this was in the early 2000s when i was tiny. Then much later in life he gifted me his emu emulator 2 and its the best tech i have and ive tried loads of different samplers and keyboards but the emu emulator 2 is by far my favorite its the shape the feel the bulkyness its big and gives you exactly the 80s goodness i grew up with. and all the depeche mode alan wilder soundfonts ive been gathering feels so nice to play on the system those sounds where made for by alan
The original emulator was used exclusively to record Todd Rundgren‘s “Acappella” album. The entire album consists of sounds from Todd’s body. Foot stomps, handclaps, beat-boxing vocals etc. Nothing but a microphone, a multitrack tape machine and an Emulator 1.0 were used. Check it out!
I had no idea, that's so cool. We saw him live not too long ago and have always wondered about his recording methods!
@@fuzzcityrecords432 One of the more poppy tunes in the album: th-cam.com/video/1yuHKQj2UpA/w-d-xo.html
The soundtrack of Terminator 2 was actually recorded using a Fairlight CMI.
Yes it was a CMI series III
Yeah, and Emulator 1 in the first Terminator.
@@philippezsiga1125 That last original CMI was leaps and bounds the greatest as it had 16-bit sampling.
'The Tunes Of Two Cities' by The Residents is an album that was almost completely performed on the Emulator 1.
one of the best albums ever
Hey! You decided to do it. I enjoyed this little dive into the history of these. I was more nervous about meeting Dave Rossum, Dave Smith, and Roger Linn at NAMM than I ever have been any musician. I'll miss my first sampler, but it went to a loving home, and I have the Arturia emulation of the EII, I won't however miss the size of that thing and the space it took up. It would be great to see the Emax and Emax 2 talked about. They were widely used (See the Depeche Mode 101 doc for reference) and have a very tell tale sound of their own. Thanks for the video!
I have commented a few times below uploads by RetroSpund that I made a mistake back in 2000. That mistake was not trying to purchase a different E-Mu synth/sampler hybrid, the Emax. 2000 would’ve been the ideal year to get that particular model in perfect working condition without needing to spend other people’s money for it.
No Technology of today will ever beat the tech of the 70's/80's, warm, deep, unique in absolute.
First, great overview of everything you are covering. Second, if people want to nit-pick over items you left out or simply misquoted due to errors before, then a polite correction of "this has often been stated this way ... but in fact is this..." type idea to help all of us with clarification is helpful. Attacks within the community of "we musicians" is simply unacceptable. Keep up the great work on these videos examining synth development and their history, I am really enjoying them! Chris
E-mus are for ever! Get your hands on an E4, load some good libs and you'll wonder if you're playing a sampler or an analog synth.
Thank you Doris for your presence, really like your special take on the "SYN"thesizer history, loved every bit and naratation it is like a meditation to listen to your beautiful positive voice. Love cheers to you and Matt. 😄💚🙏🙏🙏☯
awesome video, thanks Doris
you just reminded me of one of my favorite 80s tunes. Always wanted to know what they meant with "It's a sin"... now I get it, "it's a sin thesizer". Hold on - you started the bad jokes...
Peter Baumann had left TD by the time the Audity had been released, therefore it doesn’t feature on any Tangerine Dream album
See you later?? :D Love the content band styling, hope it catches on. Love the travel
vlogs too, my first holiday abroad as a kid was in the former Yugoslavia and ook ik heb in Nederland gewoont
you first went abroad in former Yugoslavia and lived in the Netherlands!? that's so cool, wish I could've seen it how it was back in the day
One thing that contributed a lot to the success of emu was the library that sounded killer. Same goes for the Ensoniq mirage, but e-Mu had a great library. Akai later killed all of of these because of lower pricing but no akai sample sounded as rich and well produced as an emu sample. Too clinical , but at the time that was what people wanted.
You’re really great!
Glad I found a goofy synth head. Stay weird, your syn thematic synthesis is synthesized well.
4:29, SMPTE is actual pronounced as semptie.
6:13 That is not a Fairlight CMI, that's the Arturia VST version.
Good video
"please forgive me father for I have synth?"
muahahahahaaa
Your synths are forgiven - Jesus
Peter Baumann had a music label Private music.
Somewhere along the line all the samplers were replaced by digital audio workstations that eventually no longer even sampled.
Many of the first generation sampler owners realized they could make money by creating quality patches with their samples and took it up full time. Anyone that's spent anytime with a sampler knows that quality playable patches take a lot of work and refining.
Musicians started leaning more towards the digital workstations being released at the time that took advantage of the ever growing sampled library.
I'm foggy as to when it happened but I woke up one day and realized samplers were gone!
I'm not even sure if anybody is making an actual sampling keyboard? Sure, you could do it in software workstations today but I have not played with any so I don't know what kind of tools they have to edit and loop samples.
I wish somebody would come out with a ''new'' old synth already, like ''remakes'' but of old gear. Tascam 388 needs it too!
@@fuzzcityrecords432 Yes! Even the old classic guitar pedals fell off the shelves until the small independent companies revived them with their clones. Way over priced for what they are but at least someone is still making them.
Korg did a nice job of remaking a digitally emulated version of one of it's old synthesizers. It's got the same physical knobs, buttons and wheels but now has a USB port in the back for additional features. I don't see why the other companies can't do the same. Just think what a monophonic Moog would be like if it looked like and acted like the original but also had the ability to be 32 voice polyphonic with velocity and after touch added? With Midi those extra voices could really be handy when being controlled by a software based studio for instance.
@@fuzzcityrecords432 The closes thing to an EMU sampler right now, particularly the EMU SP-12 from 1985 is the Electron Model:Samples out of Sweden and its like $175 on sale. Its concept basically is if Ikea made a sampler, this would be it.
I think the original terminator had orchestral stabs in it as well.
Yes it did
Haruomi Hosono used an Emulator.
Subbed simply for the puns
those kind of "synths" we're called Sampler, back in the days ;-)
omg i have an emu esi sampler and like MANNNN not even modern samplers can't compare
Pingu!!!
bring it baby!
I need to add some historic knowledge here. The original digital polyphonic scanning keyboard circuit came from the ref book we all have when we are in audio electronics : MUSICAL APPLICATIONS OF MICROPROCESSORS by Hal Chamberlin (one of the four testaments of my Audio Electronix bible, in my exampler i bought used there's an invoice to DAVE DUMETZ from lexicon inc...). I'm pretty shure this book is the reason SCI quit paying "royalties" to e-mu; because the actual system wasnt patented, it was explained in a book... This is why knowledge is important, some vicious scammer might find a way to take advantage of your ignorance... (no offense huh, but in 2024; ethics matter more than ever...). What is interesting to encounter, is that in the sci's (dave smith's story book) the book is credited, not e-mu... Ha!
sadly Akai killed all off
The Audity was aimed at a much higher price than the Prophet 5. The latter though not cheap was a steal compared to the Audity which is partly why it never succeeded. Also analogue synthesis even under microprocessor control was not nearly as appealing as the limited sampling of the day.
OMG, you are so adorable! 😂
.. ok
Don’t forget kurzweil k2000
They didn’t play a big role back in the day
its quiete weak to ignore the emu 2 integration with Apples mac plus.. Ever heard about digidesigns sound designer? Obviously not..
Snob.
Subscribed because of the jokes! 😂
Firstly wirsty
Es Doris ein Deutsche Sprecher?
Ich spreche Niederlandisch und Kroatisch!
@@fuzzcityrecords432you could have fooled me. Your English is great
I like your jokes.😆😅😂🤣
Such an ugly, but important keyboard!
I hear an accent. Where are you from?
Nigeria
@@saren6538no she’s from Bosnia
@@stoneyboyd was joking :)
Don't joke about sin!
You should absolutely joke about sin. Fearing god is not a path to enlightenment.
@@fuzzcityrecords432 the fear of the Lord is the law of the wise! The beginning of wisdom! You better call out to Jesus! Hell is coming
Hail satan.
@@fuzzcityrecords432 you'll be weeping and gnashing your teeth
@@anthonyman8008 ...said the man who is afraid of everything...
Hey, have you not gathered? It's not the 12th century anymore where Christians can burn heretics at the stake anymore! Get off TH-cam you religious wing nut
Are you Dutch or Belgian? Your accent..
Nigerian
@@saren6538no she’s Bosnian