1990 E-MU Proformance piano synth with saturation & effects

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"#lofi #noise #dawless #electronicmusic #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic #synth #synthesizer

E-MU Systems - Proformance 1
Herbs and Stones - 3 Stems
Walrus Audio - Qi Etherealizer

I’ve been drawn to vintage gear lately and searching for something to add to the lofi set up. Signal Sounds now have a Pre-owned section and I saw this E-MU piano rack mount synth. I’ve wanted a way of getting a hardware lofi piano vibe and this little E-MU box worked out perfectly.

From 1990, it’s in perfect condition with a mint condition manual. Very basic set up with minimal settings and 15 presets.

This was an experiment to see how to combine the lofi saturation of the 3 Stems with granular delay and reverb of the Etherealizer.

I’m controlling the E-MU with a basic Keystep 32."

E-mu Orbit 9090 V2 Rackmount 32-Voice Synthesizer

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E-Mu Orbit 9090: Welcome to "The Dance Planet"

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"Some machines are built to do a little bit of everything. This one was built to do exactly one thing, in the mid-90s, that one thing was the dancefloor.

Before the Orbit, E-Mu had been chasing real instruments: strings, pianos, upright bass, the works. Then they took all that sampling power and aimed it somewhere completely different, and out came the first module made purely for dance music. Techno, house, and a couple of genres you might not expect.

In this one I get into where it came from, what it actually sounds like as you move through the banks, and how I hooked it up to a sequencer to start putting a groove together. And then... I'll let the last few minutes do the talking. If you've ever wondered whether you could build a whole track out of one little yellow box, stick around to the end."

E-MU Systems Proteus 2500 Rackmount 128-Voice Sampler Module SN 040202882

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"This Proteus is an excellent rompler with the original 32mb of sampling memory. Its z-plane filters and punchy converters give it a classic sound, perfectly fitting into all of your mixes."

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How Recorded Sound Became an Instrument | Voltage Labs

video upload by Voltage Labs

"Sampling changed the way music could be made.

What began with tape loops and musique concrète evolved through machines like the Fairlight CMI, SP-1200, Akai S950, MPC and ASR-10: each introducing new limitations, new workflows and, eventually, entirely new musical languages.

From hip-hop and jungle to French house, microhouse and experimental electronics, producers learned to treat recorded sound not as something fixed, but as raw material.

This video traces how the sampler became an instrument and how chopping, pitching, looping, resampling and microsampling reshaped electronic music."

Daft Punk / J-Dilla / MachineDrum Sounds, Inside a LinnDrum. Da funk

video upload by Program 17

"This is the exact drums Daft Punk sampled for Da Funk, J-Dilla Drums, and Elektron Sounds inside the Linn drum. I made the EPROMs using a Oberheim Prommer. It was not an easy task. But I took layered drums. Sampled them, turned them to binary, then program them for the Linn drum. I loved daft punk growing up. I’m from Detroit. I use to hang around J-Dilla at the time. I owned a Linn drum since I was a teenager. It was my dream to program sounds for a Linn drum. I spent thousands of hours programming a Linn drum and often times wondered how to make my Linn drum sound like daft punk. Well I did it. Inside of using a SP-1200, these are the sounds inside a Linn drum.

Kick and snare are the daft punk drums.
The hat is Machine drum.
Kicks from a machine drum are in the toms and congas.

The J Dilla claps and snares are the same exact method J Dilla would use on his Drums. After reading the book “dilla time” I was inspired to make the drums a little bit off. If you look at the actual original binary files of the Linn Drum on a spectral graph or analyze the way form, you will notice that the drums are not perfect. Prince always said you need air to make it an instrument so I gave the samples a little bit of room in the beginning so it kind of sounds off but it’s not off because you can program the timing with the pitch now exactly like a clap trap, which is ironic because that’s what I heard where the Drum clap originally came from.

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DX5 performing Depeche Mode "Only When I Lose Myself"

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"Gear used: (Left) Roland JP8000, Kurzweil PC1x. (Right): Emu Emax II.
Backtrack previously recorded, track by track, by me on Pro Tools.
Other gear used for it: Roland MRS2 Promars, Access Virus TI Snow.
Note I'm near slight distortion on low frequencies in some sections. I wanted to give emphasys there (maybe too much ;-) ).
Original song composed by Martin L. Gore.
Performed here by DX5 Jose Maria Bara."

08.28.2026 EMU by Exclusively Analogue

video upload by batchas

"Short session with the Tribute/Pioneer system by Exclusively Analogue.
The first 2 oscillators in the second row go to the Ring Modulator. I enjoy very much its sound when witching the second oscillator to a different sequence or switching to an higher octave.
A remark: the blue cable going from filter to VCA is not necessary as the modules are internally connected via normalled jacks."

The Cars - Hello Again | 80s Vintage Synth Cover | Moog Prodigy & Oberheim OB-Xa

video upload by RetroSound

"The Cars – Hello Again recreated with authentic 80s vintage synthesizers and drum machines. Originally released on the iconic 1984 album Heartbeat City and written by Ric Ocasek.

For this cover I used the Moog Prodigy for the bass and sync lead sounds, while the Oberheim OB-Xa provides the lush pads and organ textures. Drums are created with the iconic LinnDrum, with additional percussion from the E-mu Emulator II.

If you love The Cars, 80s New Wave, Synth Pop, Vintage Analog Synthesizers, and classic electronic music, this performance is for you.

Gear Used
• Moog Prodigy – Bass & Sync Lead
• Oberheim OB-Xa – Pads & Organ
• LinnDrum – Drums
• E-mu Emulator II – Percussion

This cover is a tribute to the incredible production and atmosphere of the original recording, combining authentic 1980s synthesizers, sampler technology, and classic drum machines.

The goal of this production was to recreate the authentic sound and atmosphere of the mid-1980s using original hardware instruments."

DX5 performing Depeche Mode "Get The Balance Right"

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"Updating a cover I had already uploaded 18 years ago. Just played with small improvements over the same previous backtrack.
Gear used: Roland JX-8P, Emu Emax, Emu Emax II.

Backtrack previously recorded, instrument by instrument, by me.
Original song composed by Martin L. Gore
Performed here by DX5 Jose Maria Bara."

E-mu Virtuoso 2000 Virtual Orchestra Sound Module

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E-mu Vintage Keys Digital Sound Module

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E-mu Proteus/3 World 16-Bit Digital Sound Module

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E-mu Proteus 2000 Rackmount Sound Module

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E-MU Proteus 2000 - "Golden Age" Soundset 128 Presets

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Proteus 2000 is one of the most versatile modules of early 2000s
with lots of waveforms, samples, filter models, modulations & effects.

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'Golden Age' Soundset adding 128 new organic presets in your arsenal:

Complex Pads
Evolving Scapes
Rich Strings
Classic Synths Emulations
Plucks & Keys
Basses
Leads
Complex Moving Sounds
Effects

Easy installing with our instructions.

By Nick Klimenko aka Chronos, a creator of 'Organica' for Waldorf Blofeld & 'WS Universe' for Korg Wavestation.

Powerful unison strings, stunning unusual movements, deep pads & polys great for soundtrack atmosphere, synth-pop & retro wave music, dancefloor music.

Great for soundtrack atmosphere, synth-pop & retro wave music, dance floor music."

E-mu XL-7 Command Station Groove Box

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Soft Cell - Tainted Love | 80s Synthpop Cover | Maxi-Korg 800DV, PPG Wave & Emulator II

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"My cover of the iconic 1981 Soft Cell synthpop classic “Tainted Love”, recreated with authentic vintage synthesizers and samplers from the 80s electronic music era.

For this version, I used:

🎹 Maxi-Korg 800DV – analog bass and fx synthesizer sounds
🎹 PPG Wave 2.2 – main theme and pads
🎹 E-MU Emulator II – CR-78 drum and additional sampling sounds

The goal was to capture the atmosphere, character and raw electronic aesthetic of classic 1980s synthpop, while giving the song my own production and sound approach.

' Tainted Love ' became one of Soft Cell’s defining songs after its release in 1981. The duo Marc Almond and Dave Ball transformed the earlier soul song into a minimalist, dark and highly influential synthpop classic. The song was originally written by Ed Cobb and first recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.

Soft Cell’s version became a major international hit and helped define the sound of early-1980s electronic pop, with synthesizers, electronic rhythms and a distinctive minimalist arrangement.

For me, recreating this track with vintage hardware is also a journey back to the analog and early digital sound of the 1980s — before modern software instruments became the standard. Dave Ball wrote me he used the Korg Bass and the Synclavier in the original song."

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E-mu XL-7 Command Station Groove Box

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08.08.2026 EMU Exclusively Analogue - Séquence sabbatine

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"Je me suis amusé ce samedi avec une séquence simple de 32 pas envoyée sur la première ligne de modules, une autre séquence simple de 64 pas envoyée sur la deuxième ligne."

Emax vs Emax II | Are they really that different?

video upload by Espen Kraft

"My sound patches: https://espenkraft.com
This video have no real purpose. Gear wankers will love it, because, well... because they get off on stuff like this.
Hoarders will love it because they have that disease.
Musicians won't care much because they use whatever sounds good for the music they're working on."