E-MU Emulator III

very complete machine has both sampler and synthé.une machine produce sound and full musique.connectique, large Separate outputs sync smpte

USE

a 4 year old kid can produce a coommencer sic on the beast, he will not even need to call his mother to ask Why this has it or ca.une music can be flared in 10 minutes with the sequenceur.faire sounds is a breeze, just by touching the release of the envelope of a sample, you get a different sound.

SOUNDS

then it is necessary to avoid a listen 3 emu if we can no longer do without it, it is the most impressive machine that I had in my hands and yet I have a bunch of machines (thirty keyboards. it is very simple when you put your hand over one wants to sell all the reste.un its huge, enveloping, musicality has to drop a bird that whistles in the trees, on the dos.comment say the sound is full, thick, magical spectral presence, the grave was acute. crazy dynamic, even a polyphonic analog seems a nice coté.on feel that we have a branch preamp, compressor and reverb lexicon 480l ass when listening tablecloths for example, because it is his field of predilection, monstrously beautiful tablecloths. if you turn the chorus mode to "on" then you go directly al hospital, beauty of sound is unbearable for our ears (we want to go buy another 5 emu 3 for the stock room in case it fails)

NOTICE GLOBAL

not I tell you, do not buy this machine, it will make you suffer unnecessarily, you will not stop crying before his sounds merveilleux.allez buy a nice little bontempi, it costs less and you will not have to go buy handkerchiefs.

16 voice polyphony
4 MB of RAM expandable to 8
16 separate outputs (1-voice polyphony per output!)
16-track sequencer real time (but not arpeggiator)
Subtractive
Menu Software Maintenance
Editor / librarian for Mac

UTILIZATION

not need the manual!

SOUNDS

Best (1DAC by separate X 16 output) against an 8 on a Akai S1000
emu filter time, a must envelopes super fine ...

OVERALL OPINION

used since its pre output in 1988
logical consequence of the EII from 12 bit to 16 bit

The very well managed SCSI which helped later use media that did not exist at its output (and higher capacity HD ...)

Attention to maintenance today ...

The features are a bit laughable today, but at the time it is outside the norm.
It is quite usable for up to 8 Mb of RAM and 16 voice polyphony of 16 multitimbral channels.

For cons, I have not tested but the sequencer in good and usable air.
The arpeggiator is great but I think it can only be used locally agrggggrrrrrrrr

UTILIZATION

Yes it is an emu is quite simple. All menus are on or near the machine.

SOUNDS

well then .....

We tested it against an Emu IV .... how to say.
one is a sampler other musical instrument.
The sound of EIII is not really much bigger or different. It is present, he breathes it is inhabited, as the Emulator II we tested at the same time.

The sound of EIV seems empty compared to EIII is not bad but it has no soul.

PS I also have a platinum E4 that we tested with the EIV is the platinum was a little better in medium but the difference was not at all obvious.

The next test will be against the EIV EIIIXs I have in the basement.

OVERALL OPINION

I very recently and I have problems with SCSI its impossible for the time saved sounds. But I understand why it's a legend.

between EII and EIII is a matter of taste and use, but are two instruments in the same vein .... it rings true. I would say that EIII is more crystalline cleaner and EII coarser but more wild.