via Kevin Monahan on the Emu Forum via dvdborn & The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge"Greetings everyone,
If you are a fan of the Emulator family, EMAX, and some history of sampling and synths, we have a local TV show called In The Loop and this months episode is on EMU Systems and includes interviews with founders Dave Rossum and Scott Wedge as well as early employees Kevin Monahan and Max Mobley.
Tune in 5/18 or 6/1 at 8:30PM (pacific time) on the internet or local Santa Cruz cable TV for our little EMU documentary. Here is some more details.
On Air Info - both on local cable television and streaming
http://www.communitytv.org/
http://63.249.67.116/cablecast/public/Show.aspx?ChannelID=3&ShowID=13318
Download version to support SCCTV - $5
http://store.payloadz.com/go?id=1014354 or http://www.video4creative.com/portfolio/television-program-in-the-loop-art-technology.html
Enjoy!
Kevin Monahan"
Followed by:
"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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