Is the Emax better than the Emax 2?

A very exciting look at two iconic samplers of the 80s. The Emax and the Emax II. Two very different samplers in terms of sound, but similar in workflow.

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00:00 Intro
00:59 Emax II Sampling
03:41 Editing
12:09 Emax Sampling
14:50 Analog Processing
18:20 Getting the same sound?
21:30 Shoot-out

In this tutorial/workflow we take a look at how they operate/sample and how we can sculpt the sound.
The original Emax has analog filters, whereas the Emax II has digital filters.

The Emax stores the sound in 8-bit banks while playing them back as 12-bit sounds.
The Emax II is a 16-bit sampler throughout.
Does these factors influence the sounds much? We'll find out.

As the Emax II can load sounds from the Emax, I've included a real shoot-out at the end where I load a bunch of sounds into both samplers and play them up against eachother.

Both samplers have some external reverb and delay on the output. The chorus that comes and goes is from inside the Emaxes.
Both sample the exact same sound from a Roland Juno 6 in this tutorial.

My music pay homage to all synth-pop acts of the 80'ies like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, OMD, Euryhmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha and many more.

A use mostly old gear in my music and among them Roland Juno 6, Alpha Juno 2, D550 and JX-8P.
Korg DW-8000, Elka EK22, Yamaha DX7 and TX802 and drum machines Yamaha RX11 and Roland TR-626.

Effects are usually handled by Strymon and TC electronics.

Sampling is done on my E-MU ESI-4000, Akai S1000, Roland S-10, Emax or Yamaha A3000.

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