Drumulator and Drumulator Options

Since its introduction, the Drumulator has set the standard for affordable digital drum machines, offering a combination of superb sounds, advanced features, and a level of programmability unmatched by drum machines costing three times its price. Now E-mu Systems introduces a series of options that gives the Drumulator a dramatic new range of capabilities.

The Pad Programmer
With the E mu Pad Programmer you can now play and program your Drumulator in the most natural way imaginable: in real time with ordinary drum sticks. Each of the Programmer's pads can be assigned to any Drumulator sound and each is touch sensitive, allowing you to choose the normal or accented version of a sound by how hard you hit its pad. Programming complex dynamics was never easier. For added versatility the Pad Programmer includes inputs for processing external controllers, as well as four trigger outputs for controlling synthesizers, sequencers, or (dare we say it?) other drum machines.

The Graphic Rhythm Composer
The Graphic Rhythm Composer uses the Drumulator's computer interface to let you create rhythm patterns on an inter active graphics display. You can then link these patterns together into complete songs, save them on floppy disk, and even print them out for future reference. What's more, since you can independently program the level of each indiuidual note, the GRC opens up a whole new world of subtle (and not so subtle) dynamics.

New Sounds
For those who prefer it, a crash cymbal chip is now available as a user installable option to replace the standard ride cymbal. And for those well versed in the art of software, we can even tell you how to use an Emulator and a computer to create your own custom Drumulator sound chips.

The Drumulator. With a price of $995.00 we didn't haue to make it the best. But we did.

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DRUMULATOR II digital drum computer w/ midi sequencer. The D-II will be a sampling digital drum computer in the tradition of the E-II sampling synthesizer. The user will have the ability to sample any sound and manipulate that sound through trancating, looping, etc. Other features include programmable dynamics, tuning, decay and tempo per pattern. Accelerandos and retardandos can be specified. Parameters can be controlled thru midi as well as through the assignable play buttons. A SMPTE time reader/generator is included along with a standard 24 beat per quarter note clock. The Drumulator II will be fully expandable with options including additional sequencer memory, additional sampling memory (up to 17 seconds!), and a disk drive for rapid storage and recall of both sampled sounds and sequences. - list $2500? This announcement eventually became the SP12 - disk drive option was a Commodore 64 disk drive.

*(NOTE) - This description was a pre-announcement of a product that eventually became the SP12 series drum computers).