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E-MU Drumulator - $899 (Stockton)
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A Vintage Collector’s Item. This one has the SD Simpson X5 Memory Bank Upgrade with 8 to 64 Song per bank upgrade. With Original Manual and Upgrade Spec Sheets
The Drumulator was E-mu creating a rhythm machine like the Linn LM-1 that was better and cheaper. What they made wound up becoming a huge hit for E-mu. The Drumulator had eight drum sounds on a ROM microchip which were gritty, lo-fi 12-bit samples of basic drum sounds...but they were some classic sounds! The Drumulator II added sampling so you could bring in your own sounds. Samples could be truncated, looped.
The Drumulator was primarily a drum machine, however, and offered sequencing that could be accomplished in real-time for a live feel. Or it could be meticulously programmed via step entry and edit modes. Up to 36 sequenced patterns can be stored, chained and mixed to create up to 8 songs. The SD Simpson Card added on this unit adds to the BASIC included storage.