Emax II : Adverts & Reviews

      
Emax II. We've created a monster ! Expect goose bumps.

The new Emax II 16-bit digital sound system unleashes truly staggering power: The uncompromised sonic quality of our Emulator III. Made affordable by the custom chip technology that hatched the E-mu Proteus.

For you, this means a keyboard that combines extraordinary lifelike sampling. And Spectrum Interpolate Digital Synthesis. Giving you sounds so dynamic their alive.

Something else separates Emax II from the rest of the pack: 32 audio channels (configured as 16 stereo voices); 32 digital filters with resonance; 8 polyphonic outputs with integral effects sends/returns; and an arsenal of 16-bit DSP functions.

To feed all this power, we offer a rich menu of sounds transferred from the EIII library. Emax II also reads and plays anything from the enormous Emax sound library, including OMI CDROM's.

And it can grow to gigantic proportions. You can increase memory up to 8 megabytes. Install a 40MB internal hard drive. Or add a host of Mac-compatible peripherals through its SCSI port. Like the new 600MB erasable optical drive, or our own RM45 rack-mount 45MB cartridge drive.

Built in the US, Emax II is taking over your neighbourhood E-mu dealer. Stop by, And discover the new keyboard that's so good it's scary.

Keyboard Magazine reviewed the Emax II keyboard after its launch in 1989. We have obtained permission from Keyboard Magazine to reprint the article
 

Keyboard Magazine
December 1989
We've created a monster!.

The Emax II was initailly marketed as a spin off from the EIII and Proteus. The new G chip was central to the new 16 stereo voices and digital filters.
 

 
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