You are correct the sounds for the emu were recorded at 16bits and cd standard then sent by rs port via sounddesigner 2 as the same libraries are available for the eiii and also the elements of sound were done and converted to those standars
But the emax 1 being a eii on a chip is actually has a worse transpose engine when converting eii to emax 1 you have to amend the keymaps because of the uptranspose limitation in that once its reached it plays the same note tones once reached
Even sample sets for ensoniq and emu were done on much higher quality equipment than using the internal sample engine
And why the digital sound factory owners were the original people who did the sample sets
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From: "LIFELIKE laurent_ash@yahoo.com [emax]" <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 21/05/2015 17:38 (GMT+00:00)
To: Emax <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [emax] Emu II vs Emax I
I dont know why people are always speaking about the EII as a milestone in terms of sound from the mid 80’s, honestly i have compared both and the EII sounds like an old
tape, especially on the transient who are quite bad…
What is sure is that the librairies Universe Of Sound were directly transferred thru digital software like Sound Designer, downsampled to 27khz, because when i sampled
with the machine it sounded not as good as any of those banks.
I think the Emax 1, once re-caped sounds just incredibly good for 12bits companded, i have a Roland S330 which is 12bits 30khz and it doesnt sounds as clear and good as the Emax.
Transient on the Emax are really great, it is totally possible to produce a modern record just with an emax, the sound quality wont suffer from it.
Best
Laurent
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