E-mu Emulator Sampler User Forum for the EIII EII EI and EIII XP

Hi I am an art rock guitarist and I'd like to get your opinion regarding something I'm working on. Anyone familiar with the guitar symphoniesof glenn branca or rhys chatham should have a good idea of what I am trying to do. Basically I am tuning my guitars to a single note and either hitting a harmonic to make a chiming sound or creating a drone. I'll be going to a nice recording studio in a large room and record the respective sounds. basically I'd like to know if the emulator III would be a good way to go.  thanks.

Hi James, welcome.
I would think any one of the E-mu samplers would do the job for you. Of course the EIII with it's delicious CEM analog filters would do the job(although I am unfamiliar with the music you mention). I'm only commenting on the sampling part.
I also love the sound of the Emulator II and the Emax.
The EIII was the top of the line and sampled aat 16bits. If you want something a bit grittier, than the Emax is 12bit and the EII is 8bit(The EII samples at 12-bit resolution, but stores the samples into memory (and disk) as 8-bits)*(from the Emulator Archive)
Hope that helps.

Detailed info can be found here:
http://emulatorarchive.com/Samplers/samplers.html (http://emulatorarchive.com/Samplers/samplers.html)

If you want to make music and concentrate on that, I would't recommend any of the old E-Mu samplers. Because you spend more time on repairing them (or, if they work, still spend more time on hoping they stay intact), than actually making music.

If I had been like you, I had cheated on a sampler. Had given the guitar a separate channel and recorded it live instead. All edeting that you can do on the sampler in the studio, you can do on your computer.

Whether you are in any case would like to do it with a sampler I recommend getting any of the E4 Ultra models instead, such as an E5000.
They are cheaper and have more sampling memory than the EIII, up to 128 MB of memory.