E-mu Emulator II Sampler - sound library (1984) 

The E-MU EMULATOR II Sampling Synthesizer from the year 1984 is on of the most important Sampler in music history. Here can you find the full EMULATOR II playlist with a lot single sample sound demos, How To Tutorials and one synth demo tracks. Enjoy. The EMULATOR II playlist ----> ru-vid.com/group/PLe08Lbpy8pPYjjEqxQIgAq7wNYJlzane6

That factory drum loop in the beginning is in like every 80's movie scene.

Finally! Someone that just demonstrates the synths and doesn't spend the first ten minutes talking! Great video...

The drum sounds are actually pretty damn great.

Those Marcato strings are all over Cure's Disintegration and now I finally know where they're from

And now it’s 2020 and still a beautiful sounding synth. Well ahead of its time. In 1984 it cost not far of a price of a house in the U.K.. still cheaper than a fairlight. This synth open the doors to cheaper samplers.your lucky to have all them classic synths and keeping them alive. Thanks for sharing this with us.

this monster is embedded in 80's musical history and This is why we were anxious to sell our analog synths back then......

I remember standing there in the EMU booth watching them sample wine glasses with this the year it was released at Anaheim NAMM. It was unobtanium for us average mediocre club keyboardist. Very cool to hear one again, and in such mint condition wow! Your very fortunate .. thanks for the memories 👍

I acquired an EMU II in 1995, my then girlfriends dad was a church organist and his church pipe organ was undergoing a planned maintenance so I offered him of the use of either my M1 or the EMU II, in the collection of sounds/samples disks that came with the instrument was a sample of the "Let Jesus fuck you" sample from The Exorcist movie which was labelled LJFU which he loaded and then played, I was so embarrassed , but he wet himself laughing thinking of the congregations faces if he triggered that after a hymn

To this day, it's still one of the remarkable pieces of technology that came along In the 80s

better than every sampler today!

Легендарный синт.. Michael Cretu на таком не мало создал шедевров,до сих пор слышу и узнаю звуки в его хитах

'Bueller....Bueller.' This has to be the same synth that was in Ferris' room. =B

An extraordinary instrument used by numerous keyboard players in the 80's : Martin Gore, Paul Humphreys, Mark Kelly, Billy Currie and so on !!! Bravo !

5:10 Sounds used in the bridge to "Fine Time" by New Order. Not super prominent in the song's mix, but it's there!

The problem with Ferris Bueller having this in his bedroom was that it cost $7,995 in 1986 when that movie was made and in todays money that's equal to $18,700. What parents would buy their son a synthesizer costing that? Wait a minute though, Bueller's father had a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder in his garage, a car that even back then would have cost a fortune. Maybe he just had _really_ wealthy parents. This poses another problem though, why was he attending a normal high school and not a private school?

You can see the Emulator II in the "Invisible Touch" music video. It's kinda neat to see vintage hardware in its time.

My god it's like it's just out of the box! Superb condition!

Unbelievable sound qualty....ahead of its time

Oh my goodness this brings back so many good memories 👍 The E-MU is a classic historical and very important instrument in the music business - it sure made its mark Happy New Year 2023 everyone!..... God bless

I first saw this in the 80s on top of the pops when pet shop boys had this and a CMI Fairlight on stage performing their hit heart, i knew from then on i wanted to be a synth player.. and since the 90s ive worked as a composer and sound designer.

Along with the JUPITER 8 AND DX7. The Emulator II is a true icon of the 80s.

This is why the 80's music was the greatest

I recall DM using these on stage. Thanx for sharing.

Still love this instrument. It just has a flavor that I'll never tire of. The string sound at 2:15 is an all-time great. The EII voices at 3:00 or so are another fave.

All those lovely clanky noises right off of Some Great Reward and Black Celebration!

Random Arpeggiator sounded fun. Bought radio shack SK-1 when released, but never furthered sampling product exploration. I can see a universe of inspiration over all my other synthesis yet to explore, all the fairlight and Emulator youtube videos have sounds that inspire me in my keyboard part of music exploration.

5:03 the sound quality on that thing is pretty impressive today, still! New Order must have been shitting themselves when they first got their hands on this thing. But everything is a trade-off, and this case apparently sometimes after hours of meticulously programming those great sounds , they would turn it on the next day and the data would just be.... gone. I guess they finally had to start marking the bars of the song down on paper and drawing hashmarks wherever a note was programmed to save time. That's commitment. LoL!

This thing just has so much character. Love it. 2:44 sounds just like the beginning of "Six Different Ways" by The Cure btw.

Todays bands should start using these - maybe then they'd make some good music (like they did in the 80s)!

Sounds like you can really get your Gloria Estefan on with that thing! 😆

I dig that emulator II sound library. Very choice equipment.

That ''Marcato Strings'' sound 👍 Reminds me some of the Pet Shop Boys' songs .

Man that drum sequence totally reminded me of "In Suburbia" from the Pet Shop Boys :-) Love it!

This synth is a monster!

Back in the day this thing costed as much as a new european sedan car. Even with its limitations I'm still amazed by its sound 30 years on.

Could listen to this all day. 1985 Pet Shop Boys, West end girls.

The machines I dreamed of owning when I was younger would be too complicated and annoying for me to learn now. Welcome to “Getting older”…

I didn't know this sample of BOSE's song Don't Knock It (Till You Try It) was from an Emulator II. 05:31 I'm surprised to recognize this sound. Excellent video! Sensational!

This is sooo good! Thanks again for the great video!

The strings at 1:41 remind me of the strings melody from New Order's "Thieves Like Us". There's a clip of them performing it live on Top of the Pops with Steve Morris on the original Emulator 1 playing grindy bass noises. They always insisted on playing live on Top of the Pops and they always sounded unrehearsed.

A legend ! I would kill for one.

That was very impressive. I was expecting a grungy digital sound, bit everything was very smooth, clear and musical. The strings es@ecially were great. Somebody needs to port this library to Komplete, so more people can use it.

Emulator may look like a toy in 2020, but it was a remarkable and inspiring instrument in the 80's

girl the drum beat at 1.30 esp with the cheeky mouth click noise deaaad now i wanna go watch roger troutman live on BET

I had a part time job in 85' programming one of these with an Apple Mac SE. It was fun. they were a bit unreliable, I have no idea how anyone used one live...

Magical Sounds, Textures, Design & Shapes... EII ... !!! In Mind Condition ... As Usual ... For A 32 Years Old Gear !!! Thumbs Up & Thanks For Sharing This EII ...Moment ! Keep It Up With The Great Work ! ; - ) )

2:57 that choir sound was used in lots of songs. It was used prominently in “One Wish” by Hiroshima and in “Round And Around” by Jaki Graham. Wasn’t it also used in “Appetite” by Prefab Sprout? All from 1985. And “Love Is Stronger Than Pride” by Sade from 1988.

Nice library. I enjoyed the Orchestra Hit voice.

The biggest users of the Emulator II+ was Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Stevie Wonder etc. The whole of West End Girls except the vocals was done on the Emulator II+. A good sampler in its time.

5:10 "The past doesn't matter. The past doesn't matter. The past doesn't matter. The past doesn't matter." I was wondering what songs New Order used this on until that part of the video came up.

Missed the choir attacks, orchestra hits used by Arthur Baker, "gunshot' drums used by Trevor Horn (Art Of Noise)... ...but really cool to see it again. THanx a lot!

The beginning sound of the woman is on Bon Jovi's song "Social Disease!" :)

RS ! Thanks so much for this wonderful clip. 1st up, thats one BEAUTIFUL unit ya have there, oooh er. It's pristine lookin. Anyhoops, what is the name of that vocal pinky n perky sound at 5:10 please fella ? That reminded me of LFO or summat similar too. Thanks again.

Wow it sounds amazing! I wish there was an Emulator 2 VST or sound bank somewhere because just listening to this demo gives me so many ideas. Thanks for sharing m8.

Beautiful sounds ;-)

I have heard this soundtrack in a movie before, hmmm cant put my finger on it......ah thats the movie it was called the 80's XD Thanks for the gold bro.

Can certainly hear Depeche mode in most of the Emulator II sounds. I know they used this and a couple of other syhths

sieht aus wie Fischertechnik für die ganz großen - sowas ähnliches ist es ja auch ;-) sehr geile knackige Latinpercussion sounds zu Beginn! Da denk ich an Sommer! auch die Pads und Strings sehr fein, und natürlich der obligatorische Orchestra Hit der damals nie fehlen durfte :-)

Excellent. Can recall Depeche and Pet shop Boys using 85 - 86!!!!

This thing is so stinking cool

Such a nice groove!

The beginning sounds are bits from The League of Gentlemen - "Humatic"

Some of these sounds remind of the music from the PC game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure. I wonder if there synthesis is somehow related.

spitze.Das ist soooooo geil.!!!!!!!!! Die 80, er sind wieder da. LG

Wow.... great, thank you!

"Head Explosion"! those string sounds....

Many artists must have felt more like programmers than songwriters when samplers and sequencers were all the rage.

Is this the keyboard used for the bass sound on Depeche Mode's "It's Called A Heart" and Howard Jones "Dream Into Action"?

There are two things in this you won't find in newer samplers: a real analog filter and VCA.

Those electronic Toms at 0:56 sound very Jan Hammer / Miami Vice, but I think he used the CMI Fairlight for that track?

Gorgeous

.....sounds incredible...

That thing is a beast!

This one was used in 1983 by charly garcia in his album "Clix Modernos" Is an incredible wonder

Miami Sound Machine

Brilliant, fascinating and nostalgic. Weren't these about £14,000 in 1984?

Do you have any idead where the factory sounds for the Emulator II + come from? sounds likea mixture of everything.

Used on "You're A Woman" and other songs of album "Hot Girls- Bad Boys" (Bad Boys Blue), "There Was A Time" of One To One, "Heart" of Pet Shop Boys, "Zoolooklogie" of JMJ, "Ride Across The River", "Bad Attitude" of Deep Purple...

идеальный звук perfect sound! like

Was it foolhardy of me to compare the Prophet X with this baby? The title/closing cut from the first Simply Red Album, *Picture Book,* includes a synonymous string sound to that one from 1:38. Love to know if their keyboard player from ‘85, Fritz McIntyre had an Emulator II.

I love the fact it has a "Special" Button......

OK, now play a The Cars/Ric Ocasek (only) song! I was hoping you'd show us a lot more about the disk drives, because when I first saw this, it was being played either by Ric's own band alone or The Cars on Saturday Night Live, and the first keyboards I saw with a disk drive had a single 3.5" floppy drive, shortly after I saw my first device with a disk drive that wasn't a full computer: a cash register! Then still before seeing that SNL, I saw a camera with a floppy drive: the Sony Mavica! So then I saw this keyboard on SNL and thought, "Oh my gosh, they even made music keyboards with not just one, but _two_ floppy drives, and they are 5 1/4" instead!" Until then I never knew floppy drives being used with or installed into things other than regular computers went so far back! And then I started seeing even weirder things with a floppy drive in them, like oscilloscopes and medical equipment! And then came the hard drives in standalone devices, such as arcade games and DVRs! Of course nowadays, instead of floppy drives, we see SD card slots and USB jacks, and that makes sense too. So now I'd like to know why a keyboard like this would ever need a second floppy drive as if it had to boot up its OS from the first one and you'd just leave the disk in there while you used the other drive for settings and saved songs, etc. How about sharing?

That drum beat sounded like nothing but flowers for talking heads, pretty sure they used an emu

Wow! I heard a lot of sounds that were used by Teddy Riley on Michael Jackson records. Thanks for the video.

The drum sequencing makes me wanna get up and breakdance!

The Marcato string is absolutely great and unique! On which synthesizer is it currently available !???

Great vid, I love these 80s sounds, they define the sound of my childhood. I’ve been remaking and uploading 80s theme song remakes recently if anybody is interested. 😍🎹😍

Alan Wilder ❤️

Remember when they came out. Really $$$ for the time. But that was expected as it had a few innovations ahead of the crowd. Back then synths were not cheap really until the FM Dx-7 showed then more cost effective manufacturing followed to some extent.

When you sample an instrument something like a DX7 do you have to sample a few notes to spread it across the keyboard?

Amazing⚡️

perfect!

Is it a good or a bad thing that I recognize the Marcato Strings from older Legend of Zelda games more than anything else xD

Ich erkenne einige Samples (vor allem die ersten) auf Blue System's "My bed is too big"...

Those marcato strings immediately make me thing of “1963” by New Order

Are you kidding me?? Are ALL those your synths?!?! :-O Can I be your friend?!?

Шикарно!

What was the E-mu Emulator III like?

SUPER COOL !!!!!!!!