More great E-mu Emulator II sounds 

i hear emulator i hear depeche mode

Nice playing on the B3 sound patch. Reminds me of when my Dad played. He was a fantastic jazz pianist/ keyboardist. A year and a half since he's passed now. I really miss his playing.

I was a big fan of Depeche Mode at school and was also obsessed with the Emulator 2. What a fantastic bit of kit. You can actually alter the resonance of the sound using the ADSR sliders. A nice extra feature (or maybe bug) that was exploited by many artists.

There's an episode of Bob's Burgers where Gene meets a friend's dad who has a home studio with tons of synths and it's as if he's in a candy store🎹 Made me think of this channel😁

The sound at 5:04 is - in my opinion, one of the top 5 greatest EII sounds ever made.

Love the floating ork sound. Reminds me of being on a mystical ride of some sort in Disneyland or something.

Haha I remember the Zip disk! They were heavy and expensive but super reliable...

Enigma & Sandra sound !!! Thnks!

5:54 if i ever made a dark ambient album, i would DEFINITELY use this sound, mostly for the atmosphere.

Absolutely love the sounds this thing can make. If I was an artist in the 80s would have this on every single track !

floating ork is such a great sound

The "Floating Ork" sound was used in two songs of Dieter Bohlen's "Blue System" project: in the song "She's A Lady" from the project's first album in 1987, "Walking On A Rainbow", and in the song "Body Heat" from the project's second album of the same name in 1988. In both cases, this sound opens the composition.

This is great! Thanks for sharing this with us.⚡️

Awesome video Paolo. Very well put together and sonically good as always 👍

Wow that Mac. I had no idea this type of audio editing was possible back then

Love the e-mu design so simple

One of he coolest machines ever built! Thanks for all your work.

nice as always

Look at the size of that thing! Wow thanks for the scene w the Zip drive and B&W Mac.. instantly brought back memories!

WOW!! That Dust Warrior sound was awesone

Thank you Paul!

Such a great sounding synth. Love that you're using that old Mac SE to transfer data.

9:30 Quite unexpected to hear Hammond organ samples played on Emulator :-). Nicely done.

I enjoyed every second of this ♥

Omg i never knew there was a piece of software so powerful so early on in computers history 😐😍😐

I need to get an Emu II so i can have a day off school.

This is cool, I was around when the original came out, I was 17 and my friends Dad owned a studio that bought one

I love the floating ork sound lol

Man, You can about do anything with this ! So wild!

very cool!

8:05 very Depeche Mod-y stuff

Great hardware, oldies are goodies here it seams!! have a fab time :)

Such amazing sounds in this! Wow, 1984 and these were around? I would expect these in romplers from the early 90's. Thanks for sharing!

This is NEAT ! "Old Technology " STILL can rock!

Thanks that was interesting, that software seems pretty amazing for its time! ( I’ve got the much later Yamaha A5000 and just found out PCs can read it’s disks so it makes sending sounds to it a massive pain)- funny emu cracked that decades before!

Great sounds

Impressionante its sound!!

Happy New Year. Stay blessed

I recognize the "LITETINKLOOP" sound from a radio show back in the late 80's....interesting to now know where it came from

Floating Ork took me to another dimension.

Amazing...

Strings sound fantastic.

I want to say that ive been enjoying your synth reviews for a long time. When i was buying synths several years ago before i committed to one id go online to the website to see what your take was on whichever synth i was thinking of buying. You'd play a few lines on most of the sounds. You helped me sooooo much in my decisions. Thank you. Now, Idk if you know much about him but didn't Yanni use this synth? Seems like i saw one in his setup at "Live at the Acropolis"?

This takes me back - mainly because back in the mid 80's I had - what was probably the largest E2 sound library in the US. I was on tour with Van Halen during 1986, so in every city, I'd get together with the local EII owner - (usually a recording studio), and swap sounds. Hard to think that we were all so excited by the samples, as they were 8 Bit, and weren't even stereo. Great to hear them again though.

I need one of these keyboards in my life!

SUPER!!!

Lol, I had those pointer-following eyeballs on my Performa 2600 back in the day...

Cool 🔥💯🔥💯🔥💯

Esse synth soa fantástico nos dias de hoje... e eu escutei pelo falante do meu celular aqui. Imagina isso num P.A. !!

Good video and some fine sounds, but MAN! That monitor flickering like hell at the start! I bet you've sent a few epis to hospital with that already!

You may find that 'Mad Metal' was used on Everything Counts by Depeche Mode

8:00 "Some great reward" era

Hey Paolo, Thanks a lot for another great E-mu video

Mad Metal seems like it wouldn’t be out of place on Construction Time Again

Early Depeche a la Mode and Constance Demby/Novus Magnificat come to mind for the E-mu Emulator/Fornicator II.

the BIGBIGBIGBIG sounds a lot like ABC's Poison Arrow

Super cool that you could send patches from the Macintosh! Is it real time control, like with filters and envelopes or do you make changes, then send to the synth? I'm amazed at any rate that this existed back then.

Suena Genial!!!

here bc of the residents. heard they used this in recording.

Mad Metal is Depeche Mode 1984

Eighties samplers with analog filters sound more realistic than life itself, and E-mu was the rightful emperor. Unfortunately, I bet on the wrong horses (Ensoniq Mirage and Sequential Prophet 2002).

The first chord of Heaven 17 song "Temptation " is a haunting bass that even they can not recreate because they said the sample was lost ! I love the low signiture , the prodigy used the emu 2 , need I say more

It's bizarre how modern the librarian app appears on that old mac! Those sounds are so delicious. I would love to have sampled instruments of those banks. The strings, and brass particularly sound right to me. Do you want to make some in Ableton maybe? ;-)

Not a musician, but definitely a fan of synth. Spent many hours just muckin' about with fascinating sounds using PC based apps & a dumb midi keyboard - waay back in the 1990s...

That string patch in the intro is directly from Dark Train by Underworld.

The Mellotron of the 80's.

On entend aussi Genesis. C est génial et c est un son énorme.

2:50 SCARFACE/Clockwork Orange Vibes

5:00 unfortunately this amazing sound is nowhere to be found on Emulator II, a VST plugin by Arturia. What a shame D:

When I see a big synth like that, I wonder how small it could be today.

There's a very similar sounding patch to that That Big Big Big on the Kawai K1. I bet they got the idea from the EII

This is very cool. I have this but I have an Emax.

5:15 is so good!

Can you recommend a good editing software for the E3 for MAC? One that could transfer audio files to the machine?

hello SynthMania will you tell me which synths were used to make Cynthia "endless night" or some other latin freestyle songs from the eighties Thank you 😎

Then, floating Ork patch, Pearls Girl - Underworld

Ciao Paolo,love your show, can you do one whit the Roland MC 505.Grtz. Salvatore Panzali 👏👌👍

Muito show

Wow bro you got big hands

Tina Turner band member used Emulator ll, when on tour in the 80s

why doesnt UVI or other companies make refill libraries for the plug in versions?-I have the UVI plug and its great but only has minimal sounds? where can I get the sought after classic sounds from?

I had all my Emu II and Emax sounds converted to Reason files and now I use them in my computers. I also have all the Fairlight sounds converted. I no longer need the hardware.

Museum of music and IT.

5:04 love of a lifetime

Think E-Mu. Think DM!

I have 2 zipdrives that work still. but you can only use the disc in the same zipdrive you wrote the disc with =) one internal and one external. dont really use them anymore since i have a scsi2sd installed

Nice one! Do you know what synths they used on the shining theme?

It seems I only dug original library from this machine. These imports somehow do not touch me too much on personal nostalgic meter.

i was just wondering what you think of this vs a kurz 2000 sampler

2:18 he hit the back dat azz up strings😂

Damn that Dust Warrior reminds me of “the alien” Annihilation 🤔

the B-3 is vibes too

👍👍👍

I dont know for sure but I think that Floating Ork is the intro of Peter Ceteras "WIld Ways"?

That B3 patch sounds better than most sampled Organ vsts.

Floating ork pad intro on Is this love? From Whitesnake?

SALVE EMULATOR FOREVER

gosh i love litetinkloop and floating ork. is there a way to source these patches online? without buying a synth this expensive

I would like to get these sounds on my Emax. ❤

Holy shit iomega zip drives