Sampler Sound Library

Here's a quick list of E-mu Sound Library - I'll update and expand as I have time and come across the information.

The 4-digit numbers are the E-mu part numbers.

EIII format

Volume 1 - Emulator Standards 6009
A combination of Strings, Brass, Keyboards, and Ethnic Instruments

Volume 2 - More Emulator Standards 6010
A continuation of Volume 1. Includes more Strings, Brass, Keyboards, and Ethnic Instruments.

Volume 3 - Orchestral 6011
Solo Strings, Solo Brass, Woodwinds, Grand piano, and Orchestral Percussion.

Volume 4 - Sound FX 6012
Rain Forest, Wind & Waves, Urban Traffic, Machine Shop, Coliseum Crowds and many more.

Volume 5 - World Instruments 6013
Accordians, Bagpipes, Dobro, Koto, Swedish Lyre, Celtic Harp, Exotic Winds, Mizmar, Banjo, Pedal Steel, and more.

Volume 6 - World Percussion/Ensembles 6014
Latin Perc., African Drums, Tibetan Bowls, Indian Ensemble, Spirit Catcher, Kalimba, and more.

Volume 7 - E-mu Classics 6015
Proteus 1, 2 and 3 banks, Procussion, Piano, Electric Pianos, B3, and Mellotron Choir.

Volume 8 - Vintage 6016
Classic Organs, Chapman Stick, Prophet, Arp, Moog, Juno, and OB Synths.

I'm not sure of the format on the following CDs (could be EIII)- will update as I find details...

Volume 9 - Psychic Horns 6017
From producer Jason Miles, Brass section, stabs, swells, falls, slides, and riffs.

Volume 10 - Elements of Sound 1MB Collection 6019
99 banks of classic E-mu sounds compressed to 1MB for fast load time.

Volume 11 - Elements of Sound 2MB Collection 6021
Continuation of Volume 10. 94 banks of classic E-mu sounds; each bank is 1 or 2MB.

Volume 12 - ESi-32 150MB Production Sound Set 6022
A variety of great sounds created for the ESi-32. Most banks are E-IV/e-64 compatible.

Volume 13 - Dance 2000 6023
Loops, deep basses, dance synths, cutting edge sounds for cutting edge music.

Volume 14 - ESi-32 General MIDI 6024
8MB, 4MB, and 2MB bank versions of the standard sounds adapted by the computer industry.

Volume 15 - Dan Dean Bass Collection 6026
Alembic Spoiler Bass, Toucan Fretless, Guild Pilot/5-String: Slap, pop, muted, and picked.

Volume 16 - ESi-32 26 Studio Drum Kits & Percussion 6027
26 Drum Kits and 19 percussion groups, ready to be used with KAT, TrapKat, or any other MIDI controller.

Volume 17 - Heavy Guitars 6029
The most ruthless collection of electric guitar samples ever assembled! Leads, mutes, scrapes, scratches, power chords, slides, feedback, harmonics, and more.

Series 2000 Sound Effects - Sound Ideas Vol. 1 6001
From teh collection of Sound Ideas. People, Crowds, Animals, Industrial Equipment, Fireworks, and large blasts.

Series 2000 Sound Effects - Sound Ideas Vol. 2 6002
From the collection of Sound Ideas. Bowling, Basketball, Football, Household, Laundromat, Orchestral tuning, Airplanes, and Jets.

Series 2000 Sound Effects - Sound Ideas Vol 3 6003
From the collection of Sound Ideas. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Tanks, Tractors, Jets, Waterfalls, Ocean, and Rain.

E4 Ultra Sampler Options

The hardware design, chassis and mainboard for the Ultra samplers allowed for several additional options to be added.

Option spaces included:

• 3 Option 'ports' (covered with blanking panels) at the rear of the unit.
• Spaces for the DWAM (Digital I/O, Wordclock, ASCII, MIDI) sockets.
• Internal 72-pin ROM and Flash SIMM sockets.

The Ultra Sampler upgrades were as follows:

Polyphony Upgrade
E-mu Part Number 6860
Upgraded the E-Synth Ultra or E6400 Ultra to 128 voices of polyphony.
This upgrade plugged in inside the unit, and was physically invisible once installed.

ADAT Option
E-mu Part Number 6861
Upgraded the Ultra with 8 channels of ADAT input, and 16 channels of ADAT output, on 3 TOSLINK connectors.
This upgrade consumed 1 of the 3 "upgrade port" blanking spaces on the rear of the sampler.

Output Expander
E-mu Part Number 6313
This option expanded the number of analogue outputs by 8. The outputs were all balanced, on TRS jacks. On the E6400 Ultra and E-Synth Ultra, this expanded the number of outputs to 16. On the E5000 Ultra, this expanded the number of outputs to 12.
This upgrade consumed 2 of the 3 "upgrade port" blanking spaces on the rear of the sampler.

D-WAM Option (Digital, Wordclock, ASCII, MIDI)
E-mu Part Number 6862
This card for the E6400 Ultra and E5000 Ultra added digital (AES/EBU) I/O on XLR connectors, Wordclock I/O on BNC connectors, a second MIDI In, Out and Thru socket, and an ASCII keyboard input.
This upgrade consumed the blanking holes on the rear designed for this upgrade, and did not affect the ability to install any other upgrades.

RFX Effects Processor
E-mu Part Number 6864
This option added a quite powerful internal effects processor, bringing with it 32 channels of effects with highly complex routing options.
The RFX card was installed internally, and was physically invisible once the machine was reassembled.

EDI (E-mu Digital Interface)
E-mu Part Number 6863
This option never made it to market, but was developed from the proprietary multichannel audio bussing system that would later be seen used to connect E-mu soundcards to breakout boxes on products like the 1820M and 1616M soundcards.

E-Synth Sound ROM
E-mu Part Number 6870
This was an internally installed optional 16M ROM board of sounds for the Ultra samplers. This meant that upon booting the unit, you would have sounds straight away ready to go. Standard on the E-Synth, it was optional on all other Ultra units.

Orbit/Phatt Sound ROM
E-mu Part Number 6871
This was an internally installed optional 16MB ROM board, featuring every sample from the E-mu Orbit and Planet Phatt sound modules.

16MB Flash ROM
E-mu Part Number 6876
This option allowed you to internally install a 16MB Flash SIMM, and then store your preset/sample data on it, allowing for instant sound playback upon booting.

32MB Flash ROM
E-mu Part Number 6877
This option allowed you to internally install a 32MB Flash SIMM, and then store your preset/sample data on it, allowing for instant sound playback upon booting.

SCSI HD Mounting Kit
E-mu Part Number 6301
This kit allowed you to install an internal SCSI drive in your Ultra sampler.

IDE HD Mounting Kit
E-mu Part Number 6303
This kit allowed you to install an internal IDE drive in your Ultra sampler.

Emulator 4 Ultra Series

The Emulator 4 Ultra series was introduced at the 1999 Winter NAMM show (January 99).

An update of the E4X series, the primary hardware difference in the Ultra range was a new 32-bit RISC processor (actually a coldfire processor), which gave much improved processing speed on many operations within the sampler.

The new coldfire processor also allowed the introduction of a completely new feature, "Beat Munger". Beat Munger was a real-time beat-manipulation tool that allowed you to take a sample, analyse it for tempo, and then 'switch on' or 'switch off' certain slices of the loop. The sampler would then reconstitute the remaining parts of the loop in real time (as the loop played back) - which made it a powerful and flexible tool for quickly designing new loops from old ones (even though it couldn't be MIDI-sync'd).

The initial Ultra models were:

E4XT Ultra
Polyphony: 128
RAM: 64MB (expandable to 128)
Hard Drive: 3.2 GB internal HD installed
MIDI: 2 In, 2 Out, 2 Thru
Effects: 24-bit effects installed
Outputs: 8 balanced analogue on TRS (expandable to 16)
Wordclock
AES/EBU I/O
9 CD ROMs supplied in box


E-Synth Ultra
Polyphony: 64 (expandable to 128)
RAM: 16MB (expandable to 128)
Hard Drive: IDE (internal) or SCSI (internal or external) optional
MIDI: 2 In, 2 Out, 2 Thru
Effects: 24-bit effects installed
Outputs: 8 balanced analogue on TRS (expandable to 16)
Wordclock
AES/EBU I/O
9 CD ROMs supplied in box

The E-Synth came with the E-Synth 16MB Sound ROM board installed as standard.

E6400 Ultra
Polyphony: 64 (expandable to 128)
RAM: 16MB (expandable to 128)
Hard Drive: IDE (internal) or SCSI (internal or external) optional
MIDI: 1 In/Out/Thru. (expandable to 2 of each)
Effects: 24-bit effects installed
Outputs: 8 balanced analogue on TRS (expandable to 16)
Wordclock and AES/EBU I/O both an option
9 CD ROMs supplied in box

In late 1999, the lower-end E5000 Ultra was introduced:

E5000 Ultra
Polyphony: 64 (fixed)
RAM: 2MB (expandable to 128)
Hard Drive: IDE (internal) or SCSI (internal or external) optional
MIDI: 1 In/Out/Thru. (expandable to 2 of each)
Effects: 24-bit effects installed
Outputs: 4 balanced analogue on TRS (expandable to 12)
Wordclock and AES/EBU I/O both an option
2 CD ROMs supplied in box

All of these samplers shipped with EOS V4 software (technically EOS V4 Ultra)- and with the release of the Ultra line, the EOS software was split in to two lines, with EOS "Ultra" operating systems for the Ultra hardware, and EOS "Classic" operating systems for the previous Emulator 4 machines.

Module ROM boards

So I have been tearing apart some modules today, and found some ROM board numbers - these may be useful to somebody at some stage trying to identify these ROMs without any other information.

Note - the only really relevant number is the part number (begins AP here). I include the work orders incase they prove to be historically important in the future, but so far as I'm aware, they aren't.

Virtuoso 2000 module:
Part Number: AP12068-08
Work Order: #60622
(This Rom is labelled "Proteus 2000 Expansion Sound ROM - Orchestral Volume 1" on the other side)

Part Number: AP10498-09
Work Order: #58356
(This has no labelling on the other side, but if the first one is Orchestral Volume 1, then it's reasonable to assume that AP10498-09 is Orchestral Volume 2).

From memory, Volume 1 was Strings, and Volume 2 was everything else. E&OE as usual.

Planet Earth module:
Part Number: 10172-11
Work Order: #P59093
(This Rom is labelled "WORLD E-MU" on the other side)

Proteus 2500 module:
Part Number: AP10498-20
Work Order: #59440

Vintage Pro module:
Part Number: AP12068-23
Work Order: #60776#

I'm pretty sure there were supposed to be two ROMs in the Vintage Pro, so one is missing here.