The Emulator II, like its predecessor, allows you to digitally record any sound and play it back polyphonically from the keyboard. But that's just the beginning. The Emulator II utilizes a new data encoding technique that results in truly stunning sound quality. It comes with 17 seconds of sampling time (at full bandwidth) and up to a megabyte of floppy disk storage.
Once you've sampled your sound, the Emulator lI's real creative power comes into play. Its velocity sensing keyboard offers expressive control over a wide range of sound parameters. You can even program its dynamic response to match your personal playing style. The inclusion of filters, VCAs, envelope generators, and independent LFOs for each of its eight channels allows extensive programmable modification of any sampled sound. You can use its digital splicing and merging functions to create new sounds from parts of other sounds (imagine an instrument with the attack of a violin and the decay of a piano). Or stack two sounds on the keyboard and use keyboard velocity to control a crossfade between them.
Add to this a powerful MIDI sequencer with auto-correct and extensive editing capabilities, and a built-in SMPTE reader/generator that conforms to the synchronization standard of the professional recording, film, and video industries, and you have a complete music and sound effects production facility in a single portable package.
The Emulator II has also been designed for ease of expansion. Options available now or in the near future include a hard disk for vastly expanded sound storage, a CD-ROM system with a capacity of over 1000 disk banks, and the Digidesign Macintosh sound lab which turns your Emulator II into a computer music system complete with graphic waveform analysis and modification and direct digital synthesis. List $7995.00
