Nameing/ designation (Name), cut start and end point (Truncate), adjust dynamics (Normalize), set loop points (Looping), smooth loop points (Chrossfade) and finally arrange all samples in a multisample (Preset). Hear and be amazed: the EMU E5000 performs all of these functions automatically. After you have switched on the automatic functions, you only need to set the recording function of the E5000 to standby and start the sound source. If a minimum level is exceeded, the E5000 records the sample and then performs all of the above functions without having to press a single key. Why this extraordinary feature has not been copied by other manufacturers is a mystery to me. The fact is - it works perfectly! You can create a super complex multisample within 12 minutes.
It's still amazes me, that the EMU string patch samples somehow sound more realistic than most modern synths internal string ensemble patches, be it sampled, or synthesized. Fantastic. :)
My ears hurt listening to modern synths. Old instruments had sound bouncing off wood and then echoing around the room creating some sound acoustics and true character. This made for some sonic fullness that wasn't created in a digital tin can.
George Jennings but all these organic and “sonically full” sounds WERE created in a “digital tin can”. The E4X is a digital sampler. The reason the sounds are so lush and “analogue” sounding is from the high quality resonant filters, the high quality of the effects processors and the high level of skill of the creators and programmers. It’s still all digital.
When it comes to strings. EMU have ruled since the EMULATOR II. They have presence and charactor in the mix. You will get a 1000 string patches on a VST. That sound generic and souless
@@crhkrebs not only in certain emu sampler you got some ssm analog chips in the outputs especially sp12 sp1200 emulator 2 /3/3x/4 and e64. It’s the mix of analog and digital that gives these old samplers characters. You got also analog preamp stages on the sampling inputs and of course adc and dacs. So it’s some analog digital blend.
Everyone lets put our voice and music into the world, and change it. We can do better as a human race. We don't need to spray the skies, burn california down, install 5G in the cities to reduce s perm counts, this is not the answer for the future, God wanted us to freely populate the Earth. Right now dogs are illegally walking free. Humans are all an integral part of the web of life. We have constructed an imaginary pyramid with us at the top. What gives us the right to limit others species freedom. We all survive or we all fall down.
Did you know you can scrub through the sample in truncate mode, using the pitch bender? A guy called Damno mentioned it, and it works! saves wear on the jog wheel
Sure, I could use the sampler in Cubase, and it's dead easy, but somehow the struggle of making a sample from scratch, and twirling knobs, and altering parameters, just inspires you. I had forgotten about the filters in this ESI4000, and all the built in effects, that seem to sound better than the DAW. I have revisited this video, and I have dusted off the 4000, and feel inspired again! Man I love this video, you always deliver, Paulo.
I had an E4K (the keyboard version) for years with the complete EIIIX library on CD-ROM. I switched to the Akai S5000 as I found it more convenient to work with wav files. My current sampler is a Korg Kronos X73.
Great machines. I have the E4K which is this rack unit with a high quality 7 octave keyboard attached. Eight outs, dual RFX card as standard and 128mb ram. The thing sounds huge largely because the E series had completely different and much better filter chips to the later Ultra range. Also the AD/DA converters are different which gives a wider stereo image to the Ultras. I use mine to re sample between the E4K and my rack samplers of which I have six, 2 Akai’s a S5000 and an S3000xl, Roland VP-9000, Yamaha A3000 and an E-MU E4X turbo. I love mine, got it for £100 😅 would never sell it now and they’re getting much harder to find while the rack units pop up regularly. Fantastic sounds from these old machines. Totally different from software samplers and 100% more interesting. 👍🏼
I too had a maxed e4k. Unfortunately I was forced to sell it and an esi4000 in 2007 when I hit some hard times. Luckily I was able to hold onto the maxed out e64, which is essentially half an e4. I agree with you the e4/64s have a very special sound. The ultras do have more features, but the sound of the first generation of the e4 series is better to my ears. Its one of those magical machines where everything you put into it comes out better. I still love running drums into the e64 and boosting the gain, then chopping them back to the MPC. It adds something a VST never could, even in this day and age. In fact all hardware samplers are like that, imo. Both the 12bit and 16bit Rolands come to mind. I still hold out hope to this day that Rossum and Wedge get the band back together and do some reissues or new products like Sequential and Oberheim did. Its pretty obvious Creative doesn't know what they have with the E-mu patents and will never do anything with them. Which is a shame, because EmulatorX3 is actually pretty decent if you have a good audio interface for it(I use my old i88x which never got 64bit support).
the EMU ultras were the best sounding digital synths I ever heard. I had a couple, bought for very cheap, they sound awesome BUT I sold them because of workflow issues, easy to transfer your samples into it but making multisampled patches takes time...
Can you believe there is actually not a single video in youtube for the original first edition of Emulator IV? I found all emulators before and after that, but nothing for the very first EIV..
Thank you so much. It's an old school hardware sampler, so there are no preset sounds inside and the sounds loaded in RAM disappear when you turn it off. However, you can hook it up via SCSI to hard drives / CD-ROMs. Doesn't have a sequencer but again, with MIDI you can hook it up to any sequencer / DAW.
Cool man. Do you have the DWAM option? I've got an E6400 Ultra I wish I could track one down for; there's an E4X for sale on my local Craigslist with it installed and I can't swap the parts...but I am tempted to pick it up because plugging a computer keyboard into the sampler would make using it a lot easier. My Ultra has the notorious wonky buttons. I almost want to get it because I hear some of the older Emulators have a different character than the later ones, a bit darker. I find the E-mus to very warm.
so which emu is that? not the Rod Hull presumably...ive got the e4x with some pimpage...ssd etc and a ASAT card i might be flogging... and it has a bit of provenance.. the box which i stupidly binned had The Verve written on it. Could be the machine that cost them Bitter Sweet Symphony royalties...
Very nice! I still have my E-5000 Ultra, loaded to the tits with RFX card etc, but its sitting in a box in the basement for the past 15+ years. =/. Awesome demo as usual! I really like the slow&long violin. I can see this playing while the credits slowly creep up the screen after a movie!
@@bcitral He seems to be playing an E4X turbo. Sounds great. Better than the Ultras in my opinion. I was asking for the original EIV (the first of the series). It has quite different outputs and is supposed to sound even better.
@@Synth2000 the e4x and the turbo are almost the exactly the same sample other than the extra midi input to get the extra polyphony. maybe the odd other bit but the same mainboard. The first E4 samplers sound a little murkier / darker than the Ultras. Had both for years but foolishly sold the e4x a few years back. the extra workflow of the ultra is a better pull for me.
Also, Kontakt has the same translation engine built in and can import Emu CDs. Also, there are special editions of Translator for several popular soft samplers that are less expensive than the full package.
Nothing like old school gear.
Nameing/ designation (Name), cut start and end point (Truncate), adjust dynamics (Normalize), set loop points (Looping), smooth loop points (Chrossfade) and finally arrange all samples in a multisample (Preset).
Hear and be amazed: the EMU E5000 performs all of these functions automatically. After you have switched on the automatic functions, you only need to set the recording function of the E5000 to standby and start the sound source. If a minimum level is exceeded, the E5000 records the sample and then performs all of the above functions without having to press a single key. Why this extraordinary feature has not been copied by other manufacturers is a mystery to me. The fact is - it works perfectly! You can create a super complex multisample within 12 minutes.
It's still amazes me, that the EMU string patch samples somehow sound more realistic than most modern synths internal string ensemble patches, be it sampled, or synthesized. Fantastic. :)
My ears hurt listening to modern synths. Old instruments had sound bouncing off wood and then echoing around the room creating some sound acoustics and true character. This made for some sonic fullness that wasn't created in a digital tin can.
U can find those filters and sampler knowhow only in emu synths
George Jennings but all these organic and “sonically full” sounds WERE created in a “digital tin can”. The E4X is a digital sampler. The reason the sounds are so lush and “analogue” sounding is from the high quality resonant filters, the high quality of the effects processors and the high level of skill of the creators and programmers. It’s still all digital.
When it comes to strings. EMU have ruled since the EMULATOR II. They have presence and charactor in the mix. You will get a 1000 string patches on a VST. That sound generic and souless
@@crhkrebs not only in certain emu sampler you got some ssm analog chips in the outputs especially sp12 sp1200 emulator 2 /3/3x/4 and e64. It’s the mix of analog and digital that gives these old samplers characters. You got also analog preamp stages on the sampling inputs and of course adc and dacs. So it’s some analog digital blend.
Reminds me of like all the nature and science documentaries i watched growing up
Thats why I fell in love with synths!
Everyone lets put our voice and music into the world, and change it. We can do better as a human race. We don't need to spray the skies, burn california down, install 5G in the cities to reduce s perm counts, this is not the answer for the future, God wanted us to freely populate the Earth. Right now dogs are illegally walking free. Humans are all an integral part of the web of life. We have constructed an imaginary pyramid with us at the top. What gives us the right to limit others species freedom. We all survive or we all fall down.
Check out The Advisory Circle, a modern band that plays as if they are scoring a 70s BBC documentary.
Think of Cosmos. Sagan. Tomita. Vangelis.
Beautiful chords. This old gear is really something. Warm and expressive!
This is the most beautiful thing I ever heard.
"Fog Voices" was one of ENIGMA's iconic pads from 1993 to 2000.
Did you know you can scrub through the sample in truncate mode, using the pitch bender? A guy called Damno mentioned it, and it works! saves wear on the jog wheel
Sure, I could use the sampler in Cubase, and it's dead easy, but somehow the struggle of making a sample from scratch, and twirling knobs, and altering parameters, just inspires you.
I had forgotten about the filters in this ESI4000, and all the built in effects, that seem to sound better than the DAW.
I have revisited this video, and I have dusted off the 4000, and feel inspired again!
Man I love this video, you always deliver, Paulo.
These sound great. Especially ghostly voice and fog voices.
I had an E4K (the keyboard version) for years with the complete EIIIX library on CD-ROM. I switched to the Akai S5000 as I found it more convenient to work with wav files. My current sampler is a Korg Kronos X73.
very very nice, some great sounds and beautifully improvised! Time to start looking for an E4 or 6400 again :)
You could make some amazing breakdowns in a trance tune with this!
ahaha yeah, like in acid trance, a big breakdown with pads, and then a good old drop with a 909/303 combo :p
still after almost 25 years it sounds amazing :)
the ghostly voice sounds surprisingly good
Great machines. I have the E4K which is this rack unit with a high quality 7 octave keyboard attached. Eight outs, dual RFX card as standard and 128mb ram. The thing sounds huge largely because the E series had completely different and much better filter chips to the later Ultra range. Also the AD/DA converters are different which gives a wider stereo image to the Ultras.
I use mine to re sample between the E4K and my rack samplers of which I have six, 2 Akai’s a S5000 and an S3000xl, Roland VP-9000, Yamaha A3000 and an E-MU E4X turbo.
I love mine, got it for £100 😅 would never sell it now and they’re getting much harder to find while the rack units pop up regularly. Fantastic sounds from these old machines.
Totally different from software samplers and 100% more interesting.
👍🏼
I too had a maxed e4k. Unfortunately I was forced to sell it and an esi4000 in 2007 when I hit some hard times. Luckily I was able to hold onto the maxed out e64, which is essentially half an e4. I agree with you the e4/64s have a very special sound. The ultras do have more features, but the sound of the first generation of the e4 series is better to my ears. Its one of those magical machines where everything you put into it comes out better. I still love running drums into the e64 and boosting the gain, then chopping them back to the MPC. It adds something a VST never could, even in this day and age. In fact all hardware samplers are like that, imo. Both the 12bit and 16bit Rolands come to mind. I still hold out hope to this day that Rossum and Wedge get the band back together and do some reissues or new products like Sequential and Oberheim did. Its pretty obvious Creative doesn't know what they have with the E-mu patents and will never do anything with them. Which is a shame, because EmulatorX3 is actually pretty decent if you have a good audio interface for it(I use my old i88x which never got 64bit support).
The flute sounds are exact as in ‘The great outdoors’!:)
That TRON Flute reminds me of the Ken Loach film KES
Wow that old sampler sounds fantastic!
Wow fog sampler are beautiful.
Fog Voices reminds me of the Daybreak pad from Distorted Reality
Best samplers ever and their library.
Chords, that's why I love synths.
the EMU ultras were the best sounding digital synths I ever heard. I had a couple, bought for very cheap, they sound awesome BUT I sold them because of workflow issues, easy to transfer your samples into it but making multisampled patches takes time...
Must find that e6400. Wonder if they still have latest eos floppies? Never really got to grips with it and that built in midi sequencer😬
Can you believe there is actually not a single video in youtube for the original first edition of Emulator IV? I found all emulators before and after that, but nothing for the very first EIV..
Love your channel. Question is this just a sampler or are there preset sounds inside? Thanks it also state on control panel sequencer?
Thank you so much. It's an old school hardware sampler, so there are no preset sounds inside and the sounds loaded in RAM disappear when you turn it off. However, you can hook it up via SCSI to hard drives / CD-ROMs. Doesn't have a sequencer but again, with MIDI you can hook it up to any sequencer / DAW.
@@SynthManiaDotCom Thank you for the info.
Very welcome
Pretty sick!
Looking at one for sale near me.
All the additions like SD card etc.
So first place I look is your site and videos.
Trust your demos and opinions.
👍
Which disks are these patches from?, they sound great need to get my E5000 ultra kitted out..and those strings..
Cool man. Do you have the DWAM option? I've got an E6400 Ultra I wish I could track one down for; there's an E4X for sale on my local Craigslist with it installed and I can't swap the parts...but I am tempted to pick it up because plugging a computer keyboard into the sampler would make using it a lot easier. My Ultra has the notorious wonky buttons. I almost want to get it because I hear some of the older Emulators have a different character than the later ones, a bit darker. I find the E-mus to very warm.
Sounds beautiful!!! :)
so which emu is that? not the Rod Hull presumably...ive got the e4x with some pimpage...ssd etc and a ASAT card i might be flogging...
and it has a bit of provenance.. the box which i stupidly binned had The Verve written on it. Could be the machine that cost them Bitter Sweet Symphony royalties...
Nice video thank you.
Fiorenzo Carpi ❤️
Simply love it!
moini ✌ich hab ein paar disketten für den esi 32 erstanden da sind welche mit dem aufdruck "synth mania" dabei sind das presets von dir ?
Hi, no, same name, but it's not me
Very nice! I still have my E-5000 Ultra, loaded to the tits with RFX card etc, but its sitting in a box in the basement for the past 15+ years. =/. Awesome demo as usual! I really like the slow&long violin. I can see this playing while the credits slowly creep up the screen after a movie!
Any rfx input/output expansions for sale in your sampler? Thanx
I could cry listening to these sounds... I need all of these sound modules on your channel
nice Paolo as usual!Is it possible to share this sounds with us? Thx in ad
Super cool. Like, almost, accidentally Dungeon Synth ))
can these be loaded into a EMUESI32?awesome pads!
Ghostly Voice reminds me Twin Peaks
Wow that tron flute sounds amazing. Any external fx going on here or factory patches?
E-mu samplers still a reference point.
Awesome sounds Paulo, what effects were you running this through?
Johnny, thanks, the effects are internal plugins in Cubase
Very atmospheric. Was this used in TV and film scores a lot ?
Can u load Emax sounds onto the E6400?
Wish I still had the E-MU ULTRA E6400.
Awesome
Lovely, thank you
Sweet
How do you rate the EIV sound compared to E6400 / E4X Turbo ? I hear that they are slightly different.
all these are original E4 samplers. Do you mean against the ultras?
@@bcitral He seems to be playing an E4X turbo. Sounds great. Better than the Ultras in my opinion.
I was asking for the original EIV (the first of the series). It has quite different outputs and is supposed to sound even better.
@@Synth2000 the e4x and the turbo are almost the exactly the same sample other than the extra midi input to get the extra polyphony. maybe the odd other bit but the same mainboard. The first E4 samplers sound a little murkier / darker than the Ultras. Had both for years but foolishly sold the e4x a few years back. the extra workflow of the ultra is a better pull for me.
Reminds me of the halo soundtrack
Vintage 😁
Wich Library is it?
Would be really kind of u if u can upload these samples for download. :D
you can buy the Emu sample CDs and use Translator to convert them to your sampler of choice.
Ty for reply. I have a few CDs but Translator is very expensive for me. xD
Also, Kontakt has the same translation engine built in and can import Emu CDs. Also, there are special editions of Translator for several popular soft samplers that are less expensive than the full package.
@@JKC40 got ya.
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