E-MU EM8635 Emulator X3 64-Bit Streaming Sampling Synthesizer with Multi-Core Support

by E-MU

Product Features

• Optimized for Multi-core and Multi-threaded processors to balance processing
• XP/Vista 32-bit and native 64-bit applications included
• Automated sampling, pitch detection & preset creation with waveform editor
• Powerful synthesis. 50 Z-Plane filters, 100 tempo-based params per preset
• TwistaLoop automatically analyzes any audio & Morph Filter Designer Filter for creation of new or exotic filter types

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 7.8 x 5.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001VMESKE
• Item model number: EM8635
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,903 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #24 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Software > Synthesizers

Product Description

E-MU's Emulator® X3 is the world's most powerful and complete software sampling tool in the world, featuring E-MU's new Xstream™ streaming sound engine with a up to 192kHz sampling and playback, 32-bit and 64-bit native applications for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, an arsenal of automated sampling/beat analysis/editing tools and almost unlimited sound manipulation that builds on E-MU's 35 years of synthesis experience.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Windows Soft Sampler/Sample Player, April 5, 2010

By 

John Dunn "software developer" (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-MU EM8635 Emulator X3 64-Bit Streaming Sampling Synthesizer with Multi-Core Support (Electronics)

The Emulator3X is a great soft sampler. The layout continues to follow the Emulator and Proteus interface, which is clear and easy to understand. It gives the best MIDI control of any soft synth: You can map Control messages to most anything, and it supports both program change and bank change, so you can load multiple banks of sounds (literally thousands) and access them all from MIDI. Another great feature, it will create a file of all the loaded programs and banks, so it is easy to put them into controlling software such as ArtWonk that can read the names and display them as they play.

In addition to all the sounds that come with the Emulator3X, there is is a huge low cost library of Proteus and Ensonic sound banks and sample libraries available online from [...] - the original developer of the Proteus libraries.

Overall sound is what you would expect from Emu, clear and glitch free even when loaded down. If you have a 64 bit Windows, the EmulatorX3 is a significant upgrade from either the Emulator or Proteus X2 versions or the free Proteus VX, because the sample space is virtually unlimited.

The only negative is that tech support is email-only. I had a problem with it initially, but apparently it does normally work. Eventually they called me and resolved my issues completely. So while I'm not keen on email-only support, I can accept it because for my money, this is the best sampler/sample player software available.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Software Sampler, December 28, 2010

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D F Tweedie - See all my reviews

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This review is from: E-MU EM8635 Emulator X3 64-Bit Streaming Sampling Synthesizer with Multi-Core Support (Electronics)

You've heard about software sampler like Native Instruments Kontakt or Steinberg Halion? Guess what? They don't sample ... they only take pre-recorded audio and place it in a software matrix for creating soundsets.

If you want to actually record and chop your own samples ... this is what you need. This is probably the most under rated piece of digital audio software ever created. Well ... not really 'under rated,' just not well known. For rating google
'Emulator X' along with 'Sound on Sound' or 'Computer Music' to see the glowing reviews from those industry standard publications.

This includes a version of Chicken Systems Translator to turn nearly any sample format ... Akai, Kontakt, Giga, Soundfont, etc. ... into banks for this instrument.

The only thing it lacks in my opinion is the ability to route multi-output audio from one preset so you can send your kick, snare, hats, etc., each directly to individual audio busses for recording ... the kind of thiing a dedicated drum sampler like Battery can do. On the other hand, it does have 19 stereo outputs so you can route each of the 16 VSTi hosted plug-in's midi channels to separate outputs (i.e., multitimbral) and still have dedicated outputs for the 3 aux channels.

It is 64 midi channel standalone and 16 midi channel in the VSTi plug-in.

This can take your sound design and instrument collection to dimensions far beyond the normal rompler or sample collection. Here you make your own sounds!