You are correct, it was not a full fledged documentary but an episode of a show my
wife, Denise Gallant, started about a year ago called In The Loop - Art & Technology. The discussion was
shot live by volunteer community TV members and Denise edited in bits and pieces from
material we had or found. I think that is how I found the Emulator Sampler User Forum.
We only had an hour to shoot the round-table interview. We needed another hour at least.
Alas, this is all a labor of love and without funding we are limited in the scope of the project.
We would love to do a real documentary and have a lot of old video that has never seen the light of
day.
The Emulator1, Emulator II and Emax were all 8 Bit instruments but each used a different type
of 8 Bit Compression to attempt to improve signal to noise, etc.. . They also approached pitch shifting differently.
The Emulator II could be over-saturated, kind of like analog tape, and it sounded good. I don't think that
was by design. It was necessary to develop a chip to reduce parts and costs and the E Chip was the first
attempt. It had its pluses and minuses and we learned from it and it led to the G Chip which was really an
incredible piece of technology.
I don't know if other former Emu people are on this forum. I only discovered it myself recently, but I will
forward links to some that I think might be interested. Thanks for the feeback!
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