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Hi
E-mu Systems released a modification to the Emulator II that increased the
Attack times of the envelopes.
If you are interested I can send the details. Or load into the Group
database....
 
The EII is NOT good at fast envelopes, snappy lead lines and drum sounds are
not possible....
It is good for choir, strings, acoustic samples etc. Use the special charm
the EII has on these sounds and forget bass and lead.
 
The EII is not a digital camera, its a slow synth with cool samples.
 
Regards
Rob
www.emulatorarchive.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Griffin
Sent: 30 November 2007 11:15
To: emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [emulatorII-list] EG's... thoughts on EII analog can of Vorms



Let me start by saying that I collected all these
ancient samplers because they had analog output
sections and sometimes seperate DAC's and to my way of
thinking, that equalled GUTS. Yeah, screw laptops, I
wanted a multi-thousand dollar cash outlay timebomb
consuming huge area, breaking down, suffer floppy
drives, custom studio fixtures, format hell, 2-line
displays, insane arcana load times and editing
foibles. Whoops, you popped a PAL, better find a mule.
Sure I have space for all this- WAIT! need more
triple-booting Vintage MAC's to run 68000 dodgy
assembler - ahh holiest Trevor Horn grail!!! I still
don't have that Lex 224 or EE degree.

I've come home to work on my OB-X some this week. I've
done a lot to it- resoldered both motherboards,
replace trims, reseat all logic, clean ALL
connectors... and calibrate. I had it since 2003 but I
never really had much use for it until my Prophet X
took serious ill a couple days back. After all that
was done I wrote about 20 new sounds for it. My ears
were quite full of OB-X. 

I haven't used my EII HD for a couple of months. I
flipped it on and sampled a killer FM sound (sharp
bass with high feedback, aggressive)from this thrift
store Yamaha. I sampled at every fifth. I tried to
fiddle with the sound a bit.

Immediately, I became kind of frustrated with the
contours from the EII. 

I started to wish they had gone with 3310...
same storage overhead / memory space?

Is that not what was in the original Emulator I ?

I know people were delighted just to be able to sample
and that's what you were supposed to do with it.

I guess I am asking why they didn't and if anyone
during the 80's ever complain. I feel its extremely
noticeable in the VCF response. Could it have possibly
been cost? For my present tastes there's just not
enough bloody resolution.

Are there LAG's on the control lines to the VCA?
Wasn't there some mod that would give faster A?

On a related note, I had the sneaking suspicion that
the seperate LFO per voice was more to do with the
realtime instances of the voices and how to get them
out of the microcontroller- rather than the EII team
wishing for Prophet style Polymod.

I know this is treasonable, however, I think the
Prophet 2000 may have the venerable EII beat on
analog.
If that's the case well... [w]

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