Emax

At 06:48 PM 2/8/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi, I have an emulator III rack with O.S. 2.42.  I use it a lot with
>an Sp1200; dumping sampled signals to the EIII for processing and
>back to the SP for playback.
>
>I have a pretty good selection of destructive editing tools on the
>EIII (especially for a 93 OS!).  I have a huge 256 tap lowpass/hipass
>phaselinear filter, all other IIR filter forms, compression, digital
>eq, etc...
>
>My question is why Emu removed some of these filters from the EIIIx
>and ESI models.  They seem to keep the EQ and compression-- but
>that's pretty much all that remains.. any reason for this?  Or do
>they have these features in some OS update that doesn't get mentioned
>in the manuals?
>
>Anyone know about this?

They switched to digital filters starting with the EIIIx, different deal, 
different things. The plain EIII is highly coveted for those reasons, the 
analog filter is really cool.

Note that the new Emulator X - the Emux =) - has a buttload of filters.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User