Emax

Let's see these are the ones I can confirm because I saw them with my 
own eyes.. David Bowie's keyboardist used the Emax SE HD on the Glass 
Spider Tour, Depeche Mode used them from the Black Celebration Tour 
through to the Singles Tour in 1998 starting with the Emax HD through to 
the Emax II, but they didn't use them much when recording, they tended 
to use the Emulator line in the studio and the Emax line on tour, Nine 
Inch Nails .. in 1990 when I saw them in a little now defunct club in 
San Francisco called the I-Beam only had 2 keyboards on stage, both Emax 
HD .. on the Downward Spiral Tour I saw an Emax II rack module and read 
an interview on the gear for the tour that said he still had to lug an 
Emax II around for old samples. Prince in the movie "Graffiti Bridge" 
can be seen sequencing a song into a Mac computer and in his rack next 
to him is an Emax HD Rack. Faith No More's Roddy Bottom used the Emax II 
on stage and in the studio. Front 242 used the Emulator II on stage 
never saw if they switched to Emax when they came out. Those are off the 
top of my head.

The few times I saw Peter Murphy live he had Akai samplers. The comment 
that most European bands were using Akai whereas most American bands 
were using E-mu holds pretty true, Depeche Mode being the exception. I 
also saw quite a few bands using Fairlights on stage in the 80's .. 
Thompson Twins, FGTH, Ministry, Peter Gabriel, Thomas Dolby, OMD and 
Prince among them.

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