Introduction
About EOS
About EOS
Graphic User Interface
EOS uses icons, graphics and dialog boxes extensively to make programming as easy and as intuitive as possible. Similar functions are logically grouped into menus and navigation controls such as the Cursor and Page buttons make it easy to select the desired field.
Sequencer and Data Filer
The onboard 48-track sequencer is a full function music production center. It contains a host of powerful features such as high resolution cut and paste editing, quantization, data filters, and external sync capability. It is also capable of reading and playing back standard MIDI files (format 0 & 1) direct from a DOS floppy disk and saving them to the internal hard disk drive. Music sequences are stored within banks or as separate objects.
Sound Libraries
The Emulator family has access to the huge library of sounds available from E-mu and other sources. EOS is fully compatible with the E-IV, e-64, EIII, EIIIX, ESI-32, E4K, E-6400, E4X, E-Synth and Ultra sound libraries, and can transparently read Emax II, Roland S-700 and Akai S1000/S1100/S3000 banks via SCSI HD or CD–ROM without awkward conversion routines.
Sound Storage
EOS lets you arrange up to 1000 samples per bank in up to 1000 presets. E-mu's exclusive SoundSprint™ function automatically loads presets from the hard disk as you browse through them. You can continue to play while the new preset is loading in the background. The Sound ROM option (standard on E-Synth) gives you 16 MB of great samples with hundreds of user programmable presets which are always on-line and ready to go.
Advanced DSP
EOS’s advanced digital signal processing (DSP) features make sampling a breeze. Samples can be truncated, normalized and placed on the keyboard automatically as the sample is taken. Advanced tools such as Auto Correlation, Loop Compression and Crossfade Looping allow even the most difficult sounds to be looped easily.
You can digitally splice and mix samples with other samples. Control samples dynamically from the keyboard using velocity and positional crossfading and switching functions. Advanced digital processing features such as Sample Rate Conversion, Compression, Parametric Equalization and Digital Tuning let you shape raw samples quickly and with greater precision than computer based systems. Samples are easily transferred between the Emulator and an external computer via SCSI.
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About EOS
Additional digital processing functions include:
•Time Compression and Expansion: Shortens or lengthens the sample time without changing the pitch.
•Pitch Change: Changes the pitch of a sample without altering the time.
•Transform Multiplication: Creates weird and wonderful new timbres.
•Aphex Aural Exciter:™ Adds brilliance and sheen to your samples.
•Dopplerization: Moves samples forward and backwards in space as well as from side to side.
•FIR Filters: Non-realtime digital filters with “Ultra” high Q values and phase-linear filter response.
•Bit Converter: Removes unwanted bit resolution from your samples.
•Beat Munging: Analyzes drum loops and phrases and allows you to change tempo, time signature, swing and individual beats in real-time.
Built-in Digital Effects
A high quality internal effects processor adds reverb and chorus effects while keeping the sound in the digital domain. 76 different effects are currently implemented with several controllable parameters for each effect. A sound with effects applied can be resampled and saved as an entirely new sound, with ambience and effects included.
More Digital Processing Features
The digital hardware implements up to 128 “analog-sounding” Z-plane filters with many different filter types.
•12, 24, or 36 dB/octave Low-pass filters with resonance
•2nd & 4th order High-pass filters with resonance
•2nd & 4th order Band-pass filters with resonance
•Contrary Band-pass filter
•Three types of swept EQ filters
•Three Phasers and one Flanger with resonance
•Six powerful Morphing filters
Modulation sources include three multi-stage envelope generators and two multi-wave LFOs per channel with full MIDI modulation control over virtually every parameter. The digital patchbay, containing a set of arithmetic modifiers, let you create complex synthesis models.
EOS Emulators have 32 part multi-timbral capability, allowing complex sequencing and sound effects creation. Emulators can be operated by remote control using an external computer. A MIDI expander card is available for older units which increases the number of MIDI channels from 16 to 32.
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Introduction
Power Up!
Instant Gratification
This section is designed to get you playing sounds in the shortest amount of time and provides only a partial explanation of disk operations. For more complete instructions, see “Disk Menu” on page 355.
Power Up!
• Turn on the Emulator and wait for the following screen to appear.
If you have an E-Synth or an Emulator with the ROM bank added, you can select presets immediately. Use the Data Entry Control, INC/DEC buttons, Left/Right cursor buttons or the numeric keypad to change presets. That's it! If you have an Emulator without the ROM bank installed, you must load a bank into the unit. Go to the next section for instructions.
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Loading a Bank from the Hard Disk
O The Disk button can be set to call up either SoundSprint mode or the Last screen you used in the Disk Browser. This preference is located under Master, Setup, SCSI.
Loading a Bank from the Hard Disk
Loading a bank of sounds makes an entire collection of different presets immediately available.
v To Load a Bank from the Hard Disk:
1.Press the Load function key (F4) from the main screen shown above. The following screen appears.
The display shows the hard disk drive information, the folders contained on the drive, and the individual banks contained in the displayed folder.
2.Select the Folder containing the desired bank. Using the Arrow cursor buttons, move the cursor to the Folder field and select the Combos folder.
3.Select the Bank. Move the cursor down to the Bank field and choose the General MIDI bank using the Data Entry Control, the INC/DEC buttons or the numeric keypad.
4.Press OK to load the bank. The bank is loaded and the first preset in the bank appears.
Loading SoundSprints
SoundSprint is a proprietary method of loading presets from a hard disk. As a preset is selected in SoundSprint, it is immediately loaded into the bank. If you have an EOS machine with a hard disk, try it out. See “SoundSprint” on page 23 for more information.
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