Initially, the EII I began this project with was basically a door-stopper from a storage unit that you probably couldn’t have given away. This means as competent as you may be as an engineer, I would not recommend doing this from home. The amount of time and money necessary is considerable, and each step of the process presents its own specific idiosyncrasies, especially if you are working with an early series EII as I was. Restoring the E-mu Emulator IIįirst off, before you spend $2000 to $4000 on an Emulator II off Reverb or eBay, know that this is by no means an easy build or restoration. Let’s take a look at what goes into the upgrade and hopefully I can save you some time with the research I did throughout the process.
The upgrade allowed the Emulator II to change patches via Mac OS X with the help of the EMuSer interface and the EII Editor for OS X designed by Wolfram Niessen. When I did this upgrade of an EII it was one of the aforementioned very early models, and the RS-232 board required modification for RS-422 compatibility. It’s important to note that the early model of the Emulator II was produced with an RS-232 port which was later updated with the RS-422 interface which allowed communication with an Apple II running Digidesign’s Sound Designer software. Various upgrades were available such as an additional floppy drive, a 20 MB hard drive, and a 512K memory kit.
The EII was Emu’s second sampler and was initially available in 2 models: the Emulator II and II+, priced at $7,995 and $9,995 respectively – which was actually considered a cost-effective solution at the time. Following the lineage pioneered by Synclavier and the Fairlight CMI, it was the accessible design ingenuity of Roger Linn’s LM-1 that would inspire E-mu to create a more accessible sampler. The sound became famous from the SSM2045 24 dB/oct analogue filter board.
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