E-mu Emulator X
Emulator® X is the culmination of over 30 years of sampler development; combining the pristine sound quality, powerful synthesis and filters of E-MU’s hardware samplers with the disk streaming, file management, and interface advantages of software. Emulator X is a true professional sampler from the ground up, providing you with breakthrough tools for automated sampling and preset creation unlike anything that has come before. Only Emulator X offers the best of both worlds – true professional sampling, synthesis and sound quality, with all the advantages of software.
Emulator X is a 24-bit/192kHz software sampler with integrated I/O and hardware-accelerated effects for Windows XP and 2000. You can run Emulator X as a VST instrument within your favorite sequencer application or standalone, from RAM or streaming from hard disk. Emulator X is the culmination of over 30 years of sampler and synthesizer development, offering musicians and sound designers the sampling technologies, powerful DSP and pristine sound quality of E-MU's hardware samplers with the latest disk streaming, file management and graphical interface advantages of software.
Automated sample acquisition and preset creation
Emulator X makes sampling as easy as loading a preset by offering intelligent, automated sampling and preset creation from both external audio and batch files, allowing you to turn a .WAV file into a fully functioning preset in seconds with a single click of your mouse.
Advanced synthesis architecture
No software sampler can match the depth of the Emulator X synthesis engine, with 36 patchcords per voice, over 50 patented Z-Plane morphing filters, multi- wave LFO's, conditional voice modulation, clock modulation and a host of other synthesis features and parameters. You can even save your favorite synth setups as templates for quick editing.
Standalone or VSTi operation
You can use Emulator X as a VSTi instrument within your favorite sequencer program or run it standalone for maximum system performance.
RAM and Streaming playback
Emulator X offers you playback from both RAM and hard disk for total flexibility in optimizing the performance of your system.
24-bit/192kHz PCI interface with 12 inputs, 12 outputs, MIDI and FireWire®
Emulator X ships with comprehensive I/O, featuring mastering-grade 120dB SNR converters, MIDI I/O, FireWire® and analog and digital I/O.
E-DSP Multi-effects Processor
The powerful 32-bit E-DSP Processor provides you with an arsenal of hardware-accelerated plug-in effects (over 500 presets) with no CPU overhead, saving your system resources for maximum polyphony and synthesis.
PatchMix DSP
Emulator X ships with PatchMix DSP- software that delivers 32 channels of zero latency hardware mixing and monitoring with a flexible virtual patchbay- no external mixer needed.
Integrated waveform editor
Emulator X provides you with a host of professional DSP tools that you've come to expect from E-MU (i.e. Gain Change, Time Compression/Expansion, Reverse, Pitch Change, Sample Calculation w/automatic digital tuning, etc.), giving you total control over your samples
Comprehensive sound format support
Emulator X supports EOS, EIII, GigaSampler, Akai, HALion, EXS24, SoundFont 2.1, .WAV and many more sound formats- ships with over 2GB of sounds.
Automated preset cataloging across network drives
Emulator X automatically catalogs and tracks all of your presets across your entire network- no wasted time looking for sounds
I/O Configuration:
- Two 1/4" Balanced Inputs
- Two 1/4" Balanced Outputs
- 24-bit/192kHz ADAT In/Out (switchable to S/PDIF)
- 24-bit/96kHz S/PDIF In/Out (switchable to AES/EBU)
- MIDI In/Out
- Firewire® Interface (6-pin)
Minimum System Requirements:
- Genuine Intel® Pentium® III or AMD® K6® class processor or higher operating at 1.5GHz or faster (Pentium® 4 at 2.4GHz or faster recommended)
- Intel®, AMD® or 1
