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Classic Series Vol. 8 - Vintage
A sample CD-ROM offering a large collection of vintage synth sounds, including classic tone wheel organs, electric pianos, Chapman Stick, and synthesizers such as Prophet, ARP, Moog, Juno, and Oberheim (OB). The library spans 13 banks covering classic synths from various manufacturers along with guitars and percussion instruments.

Classic Series Vol. 9 – Psychic Horns
A sample CD-ROM collection of brass sounds developed by renowned sound designer Jason Miles. The library includes brass sections, stabs, swells, falls, slides, and riffs, focusing on horn and brass instrumentation. Part of E-MU's Classic Series sound library line.

Classic Series Volume 10 – Elements of Sound 1MB
A sample library containing 100 banks of classic E-MU sounds, each compressed to 1MB for fast load times. The collection spans a broad range of acoustic and synthetic instruments including pianos, strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and synth patches.

Classic Series Volume 11 – Elements of Sound 2MB
A sample CD-ROM library containing 94 banks of classic E-MU sounds, with each bank sized at 1 or 2 MB. It serves as a continuation of Volume 10, offering a diverse collection of instrumental sounds drawn from the classic E-MU sound palette.

Classic Series Volume 12 - ESI-32 150MB Production Soundset
A two-disc sample CD-ROM library originally created for the E-mu ESI-32 sampler, offering a large variety of production-ready sounds. It contains 39 banks on disc 1 and 20 banks on disc 2, covering categories such as orchestral instruments, synthesizers, drums, percussion, vocal pads, and sound effects.

Classic Series Volume 13 - Dance 2000
A dance/electronic-focused sample CD-ROM in E-MU's Classic Series, offering loops, deep basses, dance synths, and cutting-edge sounds aimed at contemporary dance music production. It is organized into 52 banks of instruments and loops covering categories such as synthesizer presets, percussion samples, and funky drum loops.

Classic Series Volume 14 - ESI-32 General MIDI Collection
A sound library disc providing General MIDI sound sets adapted to the standard adopted by the computer industry, supplied in multiple memory-optimized bank versions. It includes seven banks: 8MB, 4MB, and 2MB General MIDI banks (with and without sound effects), plus dedicated drums-and-SFX banks at 2.5MB and 1.3MB. This lets users load a GM-compatible setup sized to their sampler's available RAM.

Classic Series Volume 15 – Dan Dean Bass Collection
A sample library of bass guitar sounds recorded by bassist Dan Dean. It features three bass instruments — the Alembic Spoiler Bass, the Toucan Fretless, and the Guild Pilot/5-String — captured across multiple playing techniques including slap, pop, muted, and picked articulations.

Classic Series Volume 16 – Twenty Six Studio Drum Kits and Percussion
A sample library containing 26 drum kits and 19 percussion groups ready for use with an E-MU sampler and any MIDI controller. It includes studio drum kits named after engineers, jazz variations, and brush and creative kits, plus orchestral percussion instruments such as timpani, marimba, and xylophone.

Classic Series Volume 17 - Heavy Guitars
This sample CD-ROM offers a collection of electric guitar samples assembled for hard rock and metal production. It includes leads, mutes, scrapes, scratches, power chords, slides, feedback, and harmonics. The library is organized across 65 banks of guitar presets and multisamples.

Classic Series Volume 1 – Emulator Standards
A CD-ROM sample library spanning 44 banks of classic Emulator sounds, including strings, brass, keyboards, and ethnic instruments. It also covers orchestral elements, percussion, guitars, and synthesizers suitable for a wide range of musical applications, recreating the staple sounds associated with E-mu's Emulator series.

Classic Series Volume 2 - More Emulator Standards
A CD-ROM sample library expanding on Classic Series Volume 1, providing additional strings, brass, keyboards, and ethnic/world instruments. The collection includes 44 banks of orchestral and world sounds aimed at professional music production. It complements the original Emulator standards set with further acoustic and ethnic instrument coverage.

Classic Series Volume 3 – Orchestral
An orchestral sample collection offering solo strings, solo brass, woodwinds, grand piano, and orchestral percussion. The library contains 46 banks spanning a wide range of orchestral instruments, from double bass to harpsichord.

Classic Series Volume 4 – Sound FX
A large CD-ROM sample collection of various sound effects for E-mu samplers. The library comprises 28 banks covering environmental ambiances, household and mechanical sounds, orchestral textures, and crowd recordings. It is intended to provide ready-to-use sound effects for a wide range of production needs.

Classic Series Volume 5 – World Instruments
A sample CD-ROM offering a large collection of ethnic and world instruments. Contents include accordions, bagpipes, dobro, koto, Swedish lyre, Celtic harp, exotic winds, mizmar, banjo, pedal steel and much more.

Classic Series Volume 6 – World Percussion / Ensembles
A sample collection featuring a large library of ethnic and world instruments. Contents include Latin percussion, African drums, Tibetan bowls, an Indian ensemble, spirit catcher, kalimba, and more. It is part of E-MU's Classic Series of sound CD-ROMs.

Classic Series Volume 7 – E-MU Classics
A large collection of the sounds for which E-MU became famous. It includes Proteus 1, 2, and 3 banks plus Procussion sounds, alongside classic keyboards such as piano, electric pianos, Rhodes, B3 organ, Chamberlin violins, and Mellotron choir. Volume 7 in the E-MU Classic Series sample library.

Definitive Series - Millennium Synths
A CD-ROM sound library collecting some of the most revolutionary synthesizer sounds available, ranging from subsonic frequencies to full-spectrum textures. It contains 35 banks spanning synthesis techniques, drum machines, and bass sounds across multiple production styles.
Definitive Series - Niacin B3
A sampled Hammond B3 organ sound library created by John Novello of the band Niacin. It captures the B3 with dual and single Leslie speaker combinations, a direct line-out signal, individual drawbar registrations, and the classic organ settings. Billed as one of the most aggressive/outrageous-sounding B3 sample sets, aimed at demanding keyboard players.

Formula 4000 Volume 1 – Hip-Hop Nation
A sound ROM library delivering chunky guitar riffs, skunky R&B hits, bombacious basses, and hot & heavy vocals, with material sourced from E-MU's Planet Phatt module plus unreleased samples. The collection is organized into 49 banks grouped by instrument type, effects, and beat tempos.

Formula 4000 Volume 2 - Techno Trance
A techno/trance-focused sound library built around the essential Orbit (The Dance Planet) sounds and beats. It contains preset instruments and audio loops optimized for dance music production, including synth waves, percussion loops, beats, and techno sounds drawn from E-MU's archives.

Formula 4000 Volume 3 - Analog Odyssey
A sample library CD-ROM in E-MU's Formula 4000 series, drawing classic analog and vintage keyboard sounds from E-MU's Vintage Keys and Vintage Keys Plus modules. It contains roughly 150 MB of samples and ready-to-play instruments sourced from E-MU's archives. Marketed as an essential piece of audio history for E-MU samplers.

Formula 4000 Volume 4 - Earth Tones
A world/ethnic sound library of global instruments organized into 56 banks, with memory sizes ranging from 2MB to 32MB. The sounds are expanded and improved versions of those from the famous Proteus 3 World module, plus additional samples drawn from E-MU's archives. The collection is geared toward world music, goa/trance, and ambient dance composition.

Formula 4000 Volume 5 – Protozoa
A sampler-ready CD-ROM collection that recreates the complete Sound ROMs and 128 premier presets from multiple E-MU sound modules, including the Proteus-series "Protozoa" sounds. It lets users load, edit, and manipulate famous E-MU module sounds directly inside their sampler with full real-time control. The sounds are delivered in EOS bank format for E4 Ultra, EOS, and ESI samplers.

Kurt Ader Super Strings Special Edition
An exclusive sample CD-ROM library, this is a special version of "Super Strings – Syntec Wall of Sounds Vol. 6" released in 1998 by Kurt Ader. It collects real, analog synth, digital synth, and virtual string instruments spanning 93 banks. The library is geared toward lush, layered string and pad sounds for E-mu's EOS-based samplers.

Producer Series Vol. 1
A sample CD-ROM offering a variety of instruments designed for quick access to a large number of customizable banks editable in real time. It contains 226 banks featuring SoundSprints, solo instruments, and multitimbral combo banks spanning pianos, organs, synthesizers, strings, brass, drums, and percussion. The library is geared toward producers building multitimbral compositions.

Producer Series Vol. 2
A sample CD library offering compositional instruments to complete a production, including solo instruments, Sound Sprints, and an array of sound effects. The collection spans 167 instrument banks covering pianos, synthesizers, orchestral instruments, guitars, world instruments, and ambient sound effects.

Producer Series Vol. 6 - Analogia Project
A two-disc sample collection delivering "the explosive sounds of Analogia," with sonic material created by the St. Regis Brothers. Disc one contains 16 banks and disc two contains 12 banks, featuring bass sounds, synthesizer patches, rhythmic content, and effects-oriented material.

Producer Series Volume 3 - Hollywood Sound Effects
A sample collection featuring a vast assortment of sound effects drawn from the library of noted Hollywood sound effects guru Frank Serafine. The effects are organized into six categories: Science Fiction, Ambient Sounds, Automotive, Human & Animal, Water, and Miscellaneous. The sounds can be further manipulated using the sampler's transposition, filtering, and effects capabilities.

Producer Series Volume 4 — Denny Jaeger Private Collection
A curated sound library from renowned sound designer Denny Jaeger featuring advanced sampling sound design, including orchestral hits, wind instruments, percussion, drums, and experimental textures. The collection emphasizes realistic drum performance through MegaPatch technology that rotates similar samples to eliminate machine-like repetition. It was programmed on a fully RAM-loaded E4.

Producer Series Volume 5 - 3D Audio Collection
A sample library CD-ROM featuring 95 banks of sounds recorded using proprietary three-dimensional recording techniques for enhanced realism. The content is organized into keyboard, percussion, sound effects, and SoundSprint folders. Each instrument is configured to take advantage of the synthesis engine used in the Emulator product family.

Producer Series Volume 7 - Old World Instruments
A sample library featuring an array of Old World string, wind, and percussion instruments from around the globe. The instruments are presented in pure form alongside worldly variations, with multi-sampled strings and percussion supporting velocity cross-fading. The collection contains over one gigabyte of ethnic instrument samples.

Producer Series Volume 8 – Platinum Phatt
A two-disc sample CD-ROM library billed as one of the most complete collections of essential hip-hop sounds ever assembled. It contains thousands of samples spanning hard urban vocal hooks, live drum grooves, and lo-fi funk elements. The set combines the best sounds from the Mo'Phatt sound module along with additional previously unused material.

Rob Papen Techno Synth Construction Yard EOS CD-ROM
A sound library CD-ROM by Rob Papen featuring over 500 presets of high-quality synth sounds, techno sounds, ambient sounds, drum sounds, and drum loops. The content spans drum kits, bass instruments, loop sequences, and synthesizer patches, and leverages the EOS DMS software capabilities for the E-mu sampler platform.

Series 2000 - Sound Ideas Sound Effects Volume 1
A sound effects sample library spanning 86 banks of effects covering people, crowds, animals, industrial equipment, fireworks, large explosions, and blasts. It includes ambient recordings (schools, restaurants, hotels, train stations), human sounds (footsteps, laughter, applause, cheers), animal sounds (dogs, horses, birds), mechanical and industrial noises (hammering, jackhammer, construction equipment), weapons, and explosions of varying intensities.

Series 2000 - Sound Ideas Sound Effects Volume 2
A sample library of sound effects sourced from Sound Ideas, comprising 80+ banks of effects. Contents include sound effects of bowling, basketball, football, household, laundromat, orchestral tuning, airplanes, jets, and much more.

Series 2000 – Sound Ideas Sound Effects Volume 3
A sample CD-ROM in the E-MU Series 2000 range featuring sound effects licensed from the Sound Ideas library. It includes recordings of cars, motorcycles, boats, tanks, tractors, jets, waterfalls, ocean, rain, and much more. The collection is organized into roughly 80 banks of audio effects intended for music production and sound design.
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Specifications
- midi
- MIDI
- filter
- 24 dB/octave resonant analog low pass
- memory
- 512 kB to 1 MB
- keyboard
- 61 keys
- polyphony
- 8 voices
- synthesis
- Sample-based synthesis
- multitimbral
- 8-part
- sampling rate
- 27 kHz
- sampling depth
- 8-bit






