E-Mu E4XT Ultra Brochure

E-MU SYSTEMS introduced the first Emulator in 1981, setting
the standard for digital samplers and forever changing the world
of electronic music. Since then, E-MU has given users new and
innovative technologies with each successive Emulator genera­tion in our quest to produce the world’s finest samplers. Now
E-MU proudly introduces the new Emulator 4 Ultra: a profession­al sampling instrument with unrivaled speed, versatility and
sonic fidelity that allows you to realize any sound imaginable.
The success of the Emulator line over the last 18 years has
resulted from the close ties between engineers at E-MU and you,
our customer.

We recognize our users as the primary driving force in the
Emulator’s evolution, and the feedback and experiences you’ve
shared with us has resulted in useful and intuitive features based
on your real-world needs. When you acquire an Emulator, you
are investing in a professional instrument that will be supported
and developed into the future with sounds, software upgrades
and hardware options. It’s no wonder that Emulators are found in
countless studios around the world and serve as the standard
against which all other samplers are compared.

Sonic

Sonic Manipulation

Ultra

Ultra Hardware

The E4 Ultra features a
completely new hardware architecture that provides you with a host of benefits. The E4
Ultra’s new 32-bit RISC processor gives you ultra-fast MIDI response time, SCSI, DSP
operations and sampling, making your time more productive. All E4 Ultra samplers are
upgradeable to 128 voices of polyphony (standard on E4XT Ultra), allowing you to layer
and sequence complex sounds without fear of losing any notes, freeing you to concen­trate on the creative process and not on the limitations of your sampler. You can install
up to 128 MB of RAM (E4XT Ultra ships with 64 MB standard, the E6400 and E-Synth
Ultras ship with 16 MB standard), offering you tremendous flexibility in manipulating
huge banks of quality sounds. The E4 Ultra also accommodates Flash ROM, allowing
you to create and edit custom soundsets that are instantly accessible. With its combina­tion of polyphony, memory capacity, and blazing processor speed, the E4 Ultra will deliv­er your most intense layered sounds and sequences with dead-on timing and pristine
fidelity.

The E4 Ultra
ships with the new EOS (Emulator Operating System) version 4.0 operating system,
which offers faster and more intuitive loop point placement, enhancements to the
sequencer, and many other breakthrough features. EOS has constantly evolved through
the years, providing you with an unparalleled software upgrade path full of new features
that you can easily load into the E4 Ultra’s operating system memory via floppy disk.
Inspired engineering has been combined with user feedback to create new EOS features
like Beat-Munging, providing you with solutions to real-world problems and keeping
your Emulator state-of-the-art.

Beat-Munging is a new real-time DSP tool that analyzes your drum loops and phrases,
automatically determines the tempo, and then perfectly loops the sample for ultimate
groove preservation. Beat-Munging also allows you to change your loop’s time signature
(i.e. from 4/4 to 7/8), tempo, swing factor and individually manipulate beats within your
loop, all in real time. Beat-Munging gives you unprecedented rhythmic control over your
audio and may radically change the way you create and manipulate loops and grooves—
and you will only find this breakthrough technology in the E4 Ultra.

The E4 Ultra also provides you with a large palette of DSP tools like stereo phase-locked
time compression, pitch change, Doppler shift panning functions, sample reverse, trans­form multiply, digital re-sampling, and an Aphex Aural Exciter® algorithm to add clarity
and brilliance to your sounds. Together with a dual 24-bit stereo-effects processor with
over 40 algorithms, the E4 Ultra provides the tools that allow you to transform your orig­inal, raw waveforms into new, complex timbres that will serve as the building blocks for
creating inspired presets. From sound effects and film scores to the latest dance
grooves, the E4 Ultra will always deliver your sound accurately, placing the creative
power of sound manipulation where it belongs— in your hands.

ADATCard

Beat-Munger

EOS Link Software

Reverse

Legend

Legendary E-MU Sound

Power

Powerful Synthesis

Total

Total Integration

With the increasing con­vergence of digital and analog technologies, the E4 Ultra has been designed to seam­lessly integrate with your computer and the rest of your studio. The E4 Ultra ships with
EOS Link, a software application that allows you to control the Emulator from your com­puter desktop. Combined with EOS Browser and EOS File Assistant from Gallery
Software, you can now fully integrate the E4 Ultra with your computer to catalog your
sounds and transfer samples, presets and multimode setups between your E4 Ultra and
various storage media. And the E4 Ultra’s 50-pin SCSI connector offers you compatibili­ty with a variety of mass storage devices, including external hard disks (up to 18 GB),
CD-ROMs, DVD-RAM, Jaz, Zip and others, giving you true flexibility in storing your
sounds and projects. You can use the E4 Ultra with a wide variety of audio/MIDI software
by third party manufacturers to enhance the Emulator’s many professional features even
further, including some specifically designed to support E-MU samplers. The E4 Ultra
also integrates into your digital studio with AES/EBU digital I/O, Word Clock I/O, and the
optional 16 output/8 input ADAT card, keeping your audio entirely in the digital domain.

The Emulator 4
Ultra is more than just a sampler– it is also a powerful synthesizer with Digital Modular
Synthesis (DMS). DMS technology lets you patch control sources to the synthesis para­meters found in each preset for an incredible number of modulation possibilities. E-MU’s
roots go back to the days of analog modular synthesis, and we developed DMS to allow
you to recreate desirable analog synth features and effects while staying entirely in the
digital domain. You can use the E4 Ultra’s virtual Patch Cord architecture to easily target
the 21 patented Z-Plane filters, 2 LFOs, tuning functions, and three fully independent six
segment envelope generators (per sample!) to create any sound imaginable. The E4
Ultra provides you with the world’s most powerful, professional synthesis tools to allow
you to create that "just right" sound that is uniquely yours.

Our Emulator samplers have always been known and trusted for their musical warmth
and sonic integrity. The E4 Ultra gives you 128x over-sampling sigma/delta conversion
to ensure that every subtle nuance of your original source material is captured during
sampling. Our proprietary chip technology with 32-bit processing provides you with vir­tually distortionless pitch transposition over an incredible 10-octave range, giving you
unmatched flexibility in the use of your samples, free of aliasing, clock noise and other
digital artifacts. The discrete 20-bit digital-to-analog converters and balanced outputs
provide you with increased headroom and the assurance that the E4 Ultra’s pristine audio
quality is accurately translated to the analog domain. The E4 Ultra also imports other
sample file formats with optimal sound quality, including the Roland S-700 Series and
AKAI S-3000/1000/1100 sound libraries, as well having the ability to read AIFF and
.WAV files from floppy. This compatibility allows you to play all of your old favorite
sounds, while giving you access to the legendary Emulator sound library.

External Option Slots

Digital I/O
(AES/EBU)

50-pin SCSI connector

First MIDI

In/Out/Thru

(MIDI A1-16)

Ba
sa

Emagic SoundDiver™ Software

Leader

Go With the Leader

Invest

A Sound Investment

Versatile

Versatility

Since the inception of the Emulator line, E-MU has
offered a variety of models and configurations tailored to the way you work. You can
choose from three different E4 Ultra models depending on your needs and budget: the
E4XT Ultra is our top-of-the line 128 voice sampler and comes loaded with a host of
professional options. The mid-priced E-Synth Ultra gives you 64 voices with instant
access to onboard ROM sounds. Our highly affordable E6400 Ultra offers you a way to
harness the power of the Ultra series on a budget. And in keeping with our product
upgrade philosophy, the E-Synth and E6400 Ultra’s can be fully upgraded to E4XT Ultra
specification. All E4 Ultra’s are equipped with ten expansion ports (seven internal and 3
rear-panel) that accommodate additional hardware options like the new 16 output/8 input
ADAT card, the revolutionary 32-bit, multi-channel R-Chip FX card (available Fall ’99),
sound ROMs, and additional analog and digital I/O options that allow your E4 Ultra to
integrate into any studio environment.

The new 16 and 32 MB Flash ROMs for the E4 Ultra are of particular interest to musi­cians who work on long term projects or have the need to take their rig on the road.
These ROMs provide non-volatile storage of sounds with instant access, avoiding the
need to load banks. Flash ROMs can be re-written again and again, with the added
bonus of being able to create custom sound ROM sounds that can also be used in the
Proteus 2000, E-MU’s new 128 voice, single rack space sound module. The E4 Ultra
and Proteus 2000 combination is the ultimate system solution for composers, recording
studios, location based entertainment installations and touring musicians.

We believe
that purchasing an E-MU sampler is an investment: if you already invested in an E4X,
E4XT, e6400 or E-Synth Rack, you can upgrade your rackmount sampler to the new Ultra
hardware platform with a processor and software upgrade, performed either at the E-MU
factory or E-MU approved service centers. We can turn your already powerful Emulator
investment into the most advanced sampler in the world at a very reasonable price. Our
commitment to protecting your investment is just one more reason to choose an E-MU
sampler.

Whether you com­pose in the studio, work as a sound designer or perform live, E-MU’s Emulator 4 Ultra
line of samplers offers you the greatest power and flexibility of any sampler in the world
to deliver your unique sound. E-MU virtually invented affordable, high performance sam­pling, and we are committed to providing the quality and features you need and have
come to expect from the leader in digital sampling. Visit your E-MU dealer today and
experience state-of-the-art sampling for yourself.

ASCII Keyboard
Interface

Second MIDI In/Out/Thru
(MIDI B1-16)

mple inputs

Eight balanced
1/4” outputs

Word clock I/O Universal

power supply
100-250VAC

Bias PEAK™ Software

Gallery EOS File
Assistant Software

Gallery EOS
Browser
Software

Models

Ultra Models

E4XT Ultra

• 128 Voice Polyphony • 8 Balanced Analog Outputs (expandable to 16)

• 64 MB RAM (expandable to 128 MB) • Word Clock & AES/EBU I/O

• 3.2 GB Hard Drive • New Ultra-fast 32-bit RISC Processor

• Dual MIDI (32 Channels) • EOS 4.0 Software

• 24-bit Stereo-Effects Processor • 9 CD ROMs (over 2 GB of sounds)

6860 128 Voice Polyphony Upgrade

This kit allows you to upgrade your 64 voice E4 Ultra to 128 voices of
polyphony (standard on the E4XT Ultra).

6861 16 Out/ 8 In A-DAT

This kit allows you to connect 16 channels of ADAT outputs and 8
channels of ADAT inputs.

6862 D-WAM (AES/EBU, Word Clock I/O, ASCII, additional 16
MIDI)

This daughter card upgrade for the E6400 allows you to add digital I/O,
Word Clock I/O, ASCII and an additional 16 channels of MIDI to your
E6400 Ultra (standard on E4XT Ultra and E-Synth Ultra).

6863 EDI (E-MU Digital Interface)

This kit allows you to add a multi-channel EDI interface to connect your
E4 Ultra to EDI equipped E-MU products.

6864 R-Chip Multi-channel Studio Effects Processor

This kit allows you to add the revolutionary, multi-channel R-Chip
Studio Effects Processor to your E4 Ultra.

6870 E-Synth 16 MB Sound ROM

This kit provides your E4 Ultra with 16 MB of instantly accessible sam­ples and 500 presets that are optimized for the E4 Ultra’s synthesis
capabilities. The E-Synth Sound ROM features a diverse blend of both
standard instruments and digital waveforms to provide you with an
array of useful and cutting-edge sounds (standard on E-Synth Ultra).

6871 Orbit/ Phatt Sessions 16 MB Sound ROM

This kit is similar to the E-Synth Sound ROM with 500 funky/electroni­ca presets, and features all of the samples from E-MU’s famous Orbit
and Planet Phatt sound modules

6876 16 MB Flash ROM

This kit allows you to create your own custom 16 MB sound ROMs that
never require loading and provide you with the perfect way to take your
sounds on the road. You can edit your flash ROMs whenever needed,
putting your most-used sounds at your fingertips.

6877 32 MB Flash ROM

This kit is similar to the 16 MB Flash ROM above, but offers you 32 MB
of Flash memory for even more flexibility in storing your sounds.

6301 Hard Drive Mounting Kit

This kit allows you to mount an internal hard drive into your E4 Ultra
(standard on the E4XT Ultra).

6313 (8 Analog Output Expander)

This kit enables you to expand your E4 Ultra’s number of balanced 1/4"
outputs from 8 to 16.

E6400 Ultra

• 64 Voice Polyphony (expandable to 128) • New Ultra-fast 32-bit RISC Processor

• 16 MB RAM (expandable to 128 MB) • EOS 4.0 Software

• 24-bit Stereo-Effects Processor • 9 CD ROMs (over 2 GB of sounds)

• 8 Balanced Analog Outputs (expandable to 16)

E-Synth Ultra

• 16 MB Internal Sound ROM • 8 Balanced Analog Outputs (expandable to 16)

• 64 Voice Polyphony (expandable to 128) • Word Clock & AES/EBU I/O

• 16 MB RAM (expandable to 128 MB) • New Ultra-fast 32-bit RISC Processor

• Dual MIDI (32 Channels) • EOS 4.0 Software

• 24-bit Stereo-Effects Processor • 9 CD ROMs (over 2 GB of sounds)

Options

6860 6861 6862 6863 6864 6870

E4XT Ultra Standard Optional Standard Optional Optional Optional
E-Synth Ultra Optional Optional Standard Optional Optional Standard
E6400 Ultra Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional

6871 6876 6877 6301 6313

E4XT Ultra Optional Optional Optional Standard Optional
E-Synth Ultra Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional
E6400 Ultra Optional Optional Optional Optional Optional

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licensed by EMU-ENSONIQ, registered in the United States as indicated by ®, and in numerous countries worldwide. Aphex Aural Exciter is a trademark of Aphex Systems,
Ltd., registered in the United States as indicated by ® and in numerous countries worldwide. ADAT is a trademark or registered trademark of Alesis Corporation. Emagic®
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construed by the use of "EOS Browser" by Gallery Software. Peak is a trademark of Berkeley Integrated Audio Software, Inc

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Specs

Specifications

• Controls

Power switch, Data Entry Control, Master Menu Select, Disk
Menu Select, Preset Manage and Edit Menu Select, Sample
Manage and Edit Menu Select, New Sample Menu Select,
Sequencer Menu Select, FX Menu Select, Cursor Control,
Page Control, F1-F6 Function Keys, Audition, 10 Key Pad,
Enter, Exit, Increment, Decrement, Master Volume, 240 x 64
Custom Blacklit Display

• Menus

• Master Menu

Memory; Utilities (assignable keys, channel volume, tones,
re-calibration, tests); Bank (erase, name, auto load, flash
copy); Setup (tune, output (headroom, output boost, format,
clock, AES Boost); Miscellaneous (contrast, screen saver,
undo/redo enable, SCSI (ID, termination, Mac on SCSI bus,
Play while Xfer), import, memory allocation); FX (FXA setup,
FXB setup, bypass, control channel); Sequencer, MIDI (mode,
controls 1, controls 2 (MIDI A-H), preferences 1 (velocity
curve linear, 1-23, control #7 curve), preferences 2)

• Disk Menu

Utilities (mount, copy system, format, backup, search);
Browse (drives, folders, banks, presets, samples,
sequences); View; Load; Save (save as EIV, EIIIx, AIFF, .Wav);
Info; SoundSprint

™

• Preset Manage Menu

Utilities (erase, dump, re-map); Name; New; Copy; Export;

Info

• Preset Edit Menu

Voices (1-255) = one sample, or Multi-sample
Per Voice Parameters:
Volume, Pan, Course Tuning, Fine Tuning, Transpose, Original
Note, Key Range Windows (fade, switch), Key Velocity
Windows (fade, switch), Key Real-Time Windows (fade,
switch), Non-Transpose, Chorus (amount, width, delay, start
offset), Glide Rate, Glide Curve, Solo Mode (multiple trigger,
melody (last, low, high), synth (last, low, high), Finger Glide),
Assign Group, Latch Mode, Amp Envelope Depth, Submix,
Amplifier Envelope (6 rates, 6 levels), Filter Type (21 types),
Filter Frequency, Filter Resonance, Filter Envelope (6 rates, 6

levels), LFO 1 Rate, LFO 1 Shape (17 types), LFO 1 Delay,
LFO 1 Variation, LFO 1 Sync (key, free run), LFO 2 Rate, LFO
2 Shape (17 types), LFO 2 Delay, LFO 2 Variation, LFO 2 Sync
(key, free run), Lag 0, Lag 1, Auxiliary Envelope (6 rates, 6
levels), Patch Cords (24, >60 sources, >60 Destinations)

• Editing tools:

Voice Select, Copy, Delete, Solo Voice, Group 1-32, New
Sample Zone, Get Multi- sample, Split, Combine, Subsume,
Edit Zone, Edit Group, Edit All
Preset Common Parameters:
Effects: FXA (>30 algorithms, delay, high frequency damp,
FXB->FXA send, send amount), FXB (>30 algorithms, feed­back, LFO rate, delay, send amount), Initial Controllers (A-D),
Transpose, Volume, Internal Preset Links (1-255), External
MIDI Links (1-255), Links (program, volume, pan, transpose,
fine tune, key and velocity windows, MIDI filters)

• Sample Manage Menu

Utilities (erase, dump, re-map, de-frag); Name; New (source,
threshold, monitor, length, trigger key sampling, arm/rorce
sampling, ADC gain, auto normalize, auto placement, auto
loop, auto truncate, auto crossfade, sample rates (22.05, 24,

44.1, 48kHz); Copy; Export (EIIIx, .Wav, AIFF, EIV); Place; Info

• Sample Edit Menu

Utilities (cut, copy, paste, insert (linear mix, equal mix,
source amount (0-100%)), truncate, taper); Tools 1 ( loop
(fix size, auto correlate, crossfade), digital tune (filter type),
sample rate convert (filter type, sample calculator); Tools 2
(DC filter, swap sides, stereo->mono, reverse, integrity);
Tools 3 (gain change/normalize, compressor, parametric EQ,
phase linear filter (5 types), Aphex

®

Aural Exciter); Tools 4
(transform multiply, doppler (8 paths), pitch shift, duration,
repeat, time compression (12 types, ratio, original tempo,
new tempo), pitch change (12 types, ±1200 cents), Bit
Convert (bit resolution 0-15), Beat Munging (tempo, swing,
loop, bar edit, metronome, process, re-analyze)) ; UNDO

• Sequencer Manage Menu

Select (50 RAM, 50 Flash); Erase; Copy; Memory; Jukebox
(1-7); Name; Export (EIV, Standard MIDI File); Loop Song

• Sequencer Edit Menu

Utilities (cut, copy, paste, track delete, track copy, UNDO);
Tools (quantize, swing amount, transpose, velocity scaling,
channelize, extract); Setup (metronome/click, clock, input
quantize, record, loop, transport, locate (1-10))

• Multi Setup

MIDI channels 1-32, Volume, Pan, Submix, Pitch,
Modulation, Controller (A-H)

• Whole Setup

FX, Sprint, Load, Save, Layer, Split, Arpeggiator

• Technical Specifications

Audio Channels: 128 (E4XT Ultra); 64 (E-Synth Ultra/E6400
Ultra, upgradeable to 128)
MIDI Channels: 32 (E4XT Ultra/E-Synth Ultra); 16 (E6400
Ultra, upgradeable to 32)
Presets: 2000 (1000 Ram, 1000 Internal/Flash)
Layers: 32
Zones: 255
Crossfade/Switch zones: 128
Sound Memory: expandable to 128 MB (RAM, Flash or ROM)
(72-pin simms)
Filters: 6th Order (21 different types)
Data Encoding: 20-bits
Signal to Noise: 105db
Frequency Response: 20Hz-20kHz ±1db
THD + Noise: .044%
Power Consumption: <50 watts
Voltage Input: 100-250 VAC, 50/60Hz. auto select
Maximum Output Level: +10 dBv
Output Sample Rate: 44.1Khz, 48Khz
Effects Engine: 24-bit internal processing

• Analog Inputs/Outputs

Balanced Stereo 1/4", 8 Balanced 1/4" (upgradeable to 16 bal­anced outputs)

• Digital Inputs/Outputs

AES/EBU (optional for E6400), Optional 16 out/ 8 in ADAT
card

Preset Manage and Edit

All of your basic preset
functions are found here
(i.e. create, copy, links,
filters, etc.)

Audition

Audition your samples directly off the
hard drive without loading into RAM

Softkeys F1-F6

Navigational keys which correspond to the
buttons on the graphical user interface

Increment/Decrement Buttons

Increases and decreases the
selected value by one step

Data Wheel

You can use the Data
Wheel to quickly scroll
and edit values, presets,
samples and sequences

Master

Allows you to access the
E4 Ultra’s master func­tions (i.e. memory usage,
auto loading, sequencer
functions, etc.)

Disk/Browse

You can use the Disk/Browse button to access
the browsing page where you can both scan
your drives, folders, etc. and also load, save,
format and mount drives

Sample Manage & Edit

Access and edit all sampling
functions (create, name,
place and modify samples)

Assignable Keys

These keys can be assigned to
access your six most-used
screens

Exit

Moves you one step
back in the menu

Page

Moves you backwards
and forwards through
multiple pages

Cursor

You can use the cursor
arrows to navigate across
the fields of each screen

Ten Key Pad

Enter numbers and letters
with these buttons for
values and names

Enter

Confirms your actions like
saving, loading and editing

Check out E-MU’s comprehensive E4 Ultra Sound Library at
www.emusoundcentral.com
Including: The new E4 Definitive Series, the Formula 4000
Series, the Classic Series and the Producer Series