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Last modified
 13 March, 2004
 

Breaking the Sound Barrier

The Emulator. Finally there's nothing standing between you and the sound you want. Any sound you want. Instruments. Voices. Sound effects. Animals. Machines. Anything. Sounds that sounded real because they are real. Not synthesized simulations but the actual digitally recorded sounds.

You can start with a selection of pre-recorded sounds from the extensive Emulator sound library. Or exercise your creativity. Plug a microphone or line level source into your Emulator and sample a sound of your choice. Instantly it is digitized, stored in memory, and available to be played polyphonically on the keyboard. You can record the sound of any existing instrument exactly as you want it. Or create entirely new instruments from everyday sounds around you.

But recording your sound is only the beginning. Use the Emulator's controls to edit, filter, and tune it. Store it on diskette as part of your personal sound library. Experiment with it. Add vibrato or pitchbend. Use the Emulator's doubling mode to combine it with other sounds. Or activate backwards mode and play it in reverse. Overdub parts on the built in polyphonic sequencer. Create complex multitrack compositions and effects tracks without the need for a multitrack tape recorder.

If you need still more power, use our new multi-sample recording technique to split the keyboard into up to twelve sections with a separate sample in each section. Or install an optiuonal interface nand connect your Emulator to your personal computer, external sequencer, or a tape recorder for multiple synchronized sequences. And since the Emulator is a software based instrument, adding new functions is simply a matter of loading a new diskette.

If you are a bit skeptical, let us convince you. Send $1.00 for the Emulator demonstration record. Listen to what we've done with it. Imagine what you can do with it.

The Emulator. Approaching the future at the speed of sound
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Keyboard Magazine reviewed the Emulator in March 1982.
We have obtained permission from Keyboard Magazine to reprint the complete review article.

March 1982 Keyboard Magazine Review (34KB)

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click for full size imageKeyboard Magazine
January 1982

The upgraded Emulator I was announced at NAMM 82, but it was the original model that was advertised in Keyboard magazine the same month - as "magic" !

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October 1982

Breaking the Sound Barrier
Later in 1982 the Emulator adverts were a bit more explicit about what the Emulator could actually do !