Sundown Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I"d be lying if I said this scene didn"t have an impact on me... I was 11 or 12 at the time, and it piqued my interest further into synthesizers and samplers. I don"t know much about the Emulator II, so I don"t know if these were factory sounds (foley effects) or specially created for the movie. Enjoy - [video:youtube] Quote Sundown Working on: The Jupiter Bluff; Driven Away Main axes: Kawai MP11 and Kurz PC361 DAW Platform: Cubase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Paxton Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 I was a senior in high school, and I had enough of an idea of what an Emulator II was to cringe when he threw a baseball at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Well, I used one at an electronic music studio I worked at, back when they were the new hotness. I can say that with a microphone and an Emulator 2, you could make all those sounds yourself in short order. Fortunately, they were pretty darn easy to sample with - there were no commercial sample libraries available. Floppy disks were duplicated and traded amongst owners. Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulf Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember these floppy disks and how you had to plan the setlist according to when new sounds were being loaded. We'll, we have come a long way since then. Quote Rock bottom bass Fakebook Pro Sheet Music Reader - at every gig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Epic scene from one of my favorite movies. I was a teenager and had started collecting synths, though a higher end sampler like the Emulator II was unobtainium to me at that time. I think they were like $8-10k, which was a decent chunk of change in the '80s. Though nowhere near the cost of a Fairlight or Synclavier. It was crazy how much investment was required back then compared to today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markyboard Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 It was the next version I lusted after. This is one of the largest rack mount synths/samplers I can remember: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundown Posted May 7, 2020 Author Share Posted May 7, 2020 It was the next version I lusted after. This is one of the largest rack mount synths/samplers I can remember: The keyboard version was even more insane. With the possible exception of a Waldorf Wave, I don"t think there has ever been a larger or deeper 61-key synth/sampler. Quote Sundown Working on: The Jupiter Bluff; Driven Away Main axes: Kawai MP11 and Kurz PC361 DAW Platform: Cubase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timwat Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Two words. Mia. Sara. Quote .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I sold an Emulator II to Todd Rundgren in 1985, and got to take it up to him at his studio. IIRC, he used it to make the A Capella record. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Fortner Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I remember seeing this in the '80s, having scraped all summer to buy a Korg Poly-800, and thinking, "What a privileged little bastard." Quote Stephen Fortner Principal, Fortner Media Former Editor in Chief, Keyboard Magazine Digital Piano Consultant, Piano Buyer Magazine Industry affiliations: Antares, Arturia, Giles Communications, MS Media, Polyverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mills Dude Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Two words. Mia. Sara. Amen to that! I was channel surfing not too long ago and Bueller was on. Just had to stop and watch a while, especially her. I remember seeing this in the '80s, having scraped all summer to buy a Korg Poly-800, and thinking, "What a privileged little bastard." Yeah, me too. I was rocking my DW-6000 at the time that I bought with some student loan surplus for $800. This little sh*t had a multi-thousand EII and couldn't play a lick and he was much better looking than me with a hotter girlfriend! Late 80's I spent a lot of time with an Emax. The church I was involved in at the time bought one of those for orchestral sounds and I was the primary operator. Swapping and loading 3.5" floppies in between measure breaks. I remember the brass being quite good, especially french horn, strings and woodwinds were fairly good. I remember the Hammond floppy had a sequence with a piece of that Argent song - Hold your Head Up. Hammond sounds were pretty good for the day, obviously no drawbars to push/pull, all presets and no leslie but the samples did sound good. Also used the pipe organ samples occasionally. I never got into sampling with it, strictly playing presets with the Emu supplied floppies. It was a pretty reliable machine, I never had it fail on me but I never took it to a club on a gig, strictly used it at church and home. The church eventually dumped it in the early '90s, they traded it for a Roland U220. Quote Mills Dude -- Lefty Hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyBoy Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Have to admit back in the 80's sampling my own cough into my Ensoniq Mirage after seeing Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Those were the days.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 I made an amazing Husqvarna chain saw disk for my EMax. Sampled a real chain saw in the alley behind a music store where I was the keys sales drone. Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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