Although both have definitely been overcome by modern samplers and workstations the Emulators remain as classic music machines. The Emulator II series was replaced by the much improved Emulator III in 1988. These included the Emulator II+ with double the sample memory and the Emulator II+HD which adds a 20MB internal hard drive. The Emulator II received numerous upgrades during its four year production run from 1984 to 1988. Make no mistake, the Emulator II was a long standing professional sampler of the mid-eighties for musicians and sound designers. There are eight separate LFO's and eight extra individual outputs for each voice. A great feature is the 24 dB/oct analog 4-pole low pass filter. Editing samples includes truncating, manual/auto looping, reverse, velocity switch cross-fading and splicing samples together. The Emulator II had many new features for its time. It can be hooked up to a Mac for easier editing using software such as Digidesign's Sound Designer. Also on-board is a useful 8-track sequencer.
It uses those giant 5" floppy disks for storage. Especially nice is its ability to create warm analog-ish pads and sounds. It's a sampler that sounds like an analog synth because it has analog filters! It samples at a low 8-bits (up to 17.6 seconds) so it's got that lo-fi sound which is great for some types of electronic music. An affordable classic early eighties sampler/workstation synthesizer.
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