Emulator X

Desktop Sampling System

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.

 RRP $749  Regular Customer? - Call for your price.

Features

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 18 inputs, 20 outputs, Sync, 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)

Retail Box Contents

	E-MU® 1010 PCI card
	E-MU 0202 I/O daughter card
	I/O card cable
	Mini-DIN MIDI adapter cables
	Quick Start guide
	Operation Manual on CD-ROM
	Creative Professional Software CD-ROM - Windows 2000 and XP Drivers - E-MU PatchMix DSP - E-MU E-DSP FX Library
	Audio software package on CD-ROM

Technical Specifications

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 100% compatible motherboard & chipset
	512MB System RAM (1GHz or greater recommended)
	7200 RPM hard disk
	200MB of free hard disk space for minimum installation (3GB needed for full installation)
	Windows® 2000 SP 4, Windows® XP SP 1 or greater
	PCI 2.1 compliant slot for E-MU® 1010 PCI card
	Adjacent PCI slot for E-MU® 0202 I/O daughter card
	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive required for software installation
	XVGA Video (1024 X 768)

 RRP $749  Regular Customer? - Call for your price.

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