EMU to Ship Audio Production Studio at End of July

Digital sampling, wavetable synthesis, and sound design hardware for Windows 95

July 1, 1998 -- EMU is proud to announce that this month it will ship the Audio Production Studio - a sampling/ audio system consisting of a Windows' 95 PCI card (the E-Card), a unique Audio Access Bay front panel called the E-Drive, and a powerful suite of EMU and third party application software. The Audio Production Studio provides high-quality sampling, 64-voice/32-channel MIDI synthesizer support, digital mixing, hard disk recording, and unmatched real-time effects for audio processing. The Audio Production Studio also supports the SoundFont(R) file format, the most popular form of downloadable sounds in the world. Designed for musicians, sound designers, and multimedia content developers, the Audio Production Studio allows the user to deliver legendary EMU sound direct from their desktop. The EMU Audio Production Studio will begin shipping on July 31st at a suggested retail price of $699.

Professional-quality audio at a breakthrough price

The EMU Audio Production Studio is designed for musicians, multimedia developers, sound designers, and hobbyists-anyone who needs high-quality sampling, disk recording, processing, and editing capabilities in their computer. Until now such high performance technology was only available in systems which are considerably more expensive and complicated. This all-in-one approach gives the user the ability to concentrate on production, not set-up.

Revolutionary chip technology

The EMU Audio Production Studio is powered by the EMU10K1 multimedia audio processor. The EMU10K1 is a highly integrated custom chip designed to handle a number of high-level audio functions including: wavetable sampling/ synthesis, streaming digital audio, sample-rate conversion, and simultaneous multi-effects processing.

"The Audio Production Studio is reflective of our commitment to the development of new technology for high-quality and affordable PC audio," says Bill Snow, EMU's Vice-President of Business Development. He continues, "Our goal is to provide our customers with a world-class product while at the same time furthering the success of computer produced audio for music and multimedia projects."

Features

The Audio Production Studio consists of a main PCI card with S/PDIF and balanced analog 1/0, the E-Drive which brings additional S/PDIF, selectable mic/line inputs, and a headphone output to the front of the computer for easy access. Also included is a powerful software suite which was developed by EMU and third-party vendors for playback, recording, and sound design. In addition, it features 64 hardware voices supporting SoundFont sounds (wavetable samples/ synthesis) and/or streaming audio, as well as a unique patchable effects architecture with multiple effects from the EMU library.

Emu's website is at http://www.emu.com.