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Hi,
E-mu Systems used a few UNIX machines to manipulate the first Emulator I
samples in 1980/81 with the Sony PCM F1 digital recorder as a sampling
front end, rather than the EI/EII ADC's. E3's were hot rodded with all
sorts of mods to enable high quality sampling, which end users simply
didn't need.The UNIX machines came in with the Z80microprocessor in 76
to develop code, they then ran R&D software and office systems. In the
early days you created sample onto diskette and then loaded into the
E1.no digital transfer. E-mu Systems had quite a R&D facility even then
(now they have the Creative R&D centre fnext door - way cool) so the
emerging Mac Digidesign software wasn't critical to getting good
samples.
 
There was no DSP going on until Dana Massie arrived for the EII project
in 83/84, then it went big time. Some in the Emulator II - some in the
supporting computers. Dana did the cool parts of SD. Crossfade looping
was Dana, and a lot of the DSP features in the EII/Emax/E3 were
delivered by Dana "uphill" whilst the products were developed within
very tight time scales. They were extras.Dana is a very cool DSP
engineer - he works for Waves now.
 
The E3 was going to have "record to disk" in 1988, but E-mu Systems
couldn't figure out the interleaving to hard disk so it had to be
canned. Digidesign had this sorted and a Mac worked better than a
"sampler" as a GUI, the rest is history. E-mu Systems never made it into
DAW market and Digidesign took off.
 
Regards
Rob
www.emulatorarchive.com <http://www.emulatorarchive.com/> 
 
 
 
In the eighties, how were the professional sound
designers getting sounds into their machines? 

Before the advent of SD, was there some other means by
which a sample could be transferred in digitally?

What were E-mu able to do in terms of massaging data?
What kinds of computers and dsp algorithms did they
have on hand? For example, how was crossfade loop
conceived and engineered? Was there a VAX machine or
something similar? [w]

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