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We all use it but there are now possibly two generations of people who never used an adm-5 or vt100 so what exactly is being emulated?
It's a terminal program. It implements the function of a command line access protocol.
I repair DX7's for a hobby, it's interesting to see how clever devices from that era are. Time and again 'that's clever' hits me when I finally understand how some part of it works. They're incredibly sturdy too, one survived a fire, the outside was pretty grim but it still worked , and parts from that one helped to make a whole bunch of them whole again. I have it down to a pretty simple process now, the only tricky…
I got to meet Don Buchla back in the '70s. My friend Will was visiting from Phoenix, and he had a company making studio mixers. So I tagged along while he made the rounds to visit potential vendors and clients. Don had an awesome setup in his Berkeley living room. A whole ring of synths of different kinds, a Buchla Box or two, a Moog of some sort, and some new stuff he was working on. I don't think we tripped out on…
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As a big fan of 70's and 80's pop music, I had always wanted a vintage Sequential Circuits Prophet V synth, but when I saw the maintenance required on even that semi-modern synth, I think I will stick to the VST/AU equivalent!
A company called Behringer are currently making modern ultra-cheap clones of as many vintage ultra-expensive vintage synthesizers as they can. Three models are complete and shipping, and there are rumoured to be another fifty or so in the pipeline - including the P5.
What does the word emulator mean any more in this context? We all use it but there are now possibly two generations of people who never used an adm-5 or vt100 so what exactly is being emulated? It's a terminal program. It implements the function of a command line access protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_Emulator
It was called such, because it could be used to 'emulate any instrument' by recording it, and playing back the samples ..
What does the word emulator mean any more in this context? We all use it but there are now possibly two generations of people who never used an adm-5 or vt100 so what exactly is being emulated? It's a terminal program. It implements the function of a command line access protocol.
The Emulator was a pretty decent early commercial sampler product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_Emulator It was called such, because it could be used to 'emulate any instrument' by recording it, and playing back the samples ..
If you open it up you can lift then reseat an IC (I think it's the only one in a socket) and you get random drum patterns and sometimes those a great.
On the one hand, I would love to own a Buchla synth. On the other hand, no way in hell would I want to maintain an analog synth. The closest I got was when I bought a second-hand Korg EX800, which was a digitally-controlled analog unit. Fun machine, but it was unreliable and I wasn't up to the task of taking care of it.
I own about a dozen 25-40 year old analog synths. It’s not quite as difficult as it sounds. Replacing jacks and button panels and switches and pots is straightforward soldering (it also helps that all the pads and traces are much larger and chunkier than modern gear), and anything more involved is not too expensive from various shops that specialize. I certainly don’t recommend moving them unnecessarily or traveling/…
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> not a digital synthesizer, All original synths were analog
Not sure your definition of "original" here. Analog synths were experimented with since the 1920's and 1930's[1] with digital synthesis arriving around the early 1970's[2]. The Electronium was late enough not to qualify as an "original" synthesizer, unless you mean it was "all original" work by Scott, which I'm not sure is completely true either. With the first working unit developed only by 1969[3] and used at Motow…