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E-mu | Audity |
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Description | Only one Audity ever came off the assembly line. At the time, it was a state of the art computer based analog synthesizer commissioned by ex-Tangerine Dreamer Peter Baumann in 1979. It came at a time when E-mu, like other synth manufacturers of the time, were making a move towards producing an instrument that was more compact and more advanced than the purely analog modular beasts they had been making. Under pressure from synths like Sequential's Prophet-5, E-mu set out to make a very powerful analog synth. The Audity was a 16-voice instrument with a massive amount of programmability and stability thanks to the computer based technology that controlled it. Unfortunately the instrument was so expensive ($70,000) that nobody wanted to buy one. It was also a bear to program. E-mu wound up shelving it in order to start over with a new concept inspired by the Fairlight. This led to a sophisticated and much cheaper sampler - the Emulator 1. But the Audity had not been forgotten by E-mu. Much of the Audity's multi-timbral design went into the creation of the sample-playback Proteus synthesizers, which in turn paved way for the Audity 2000 sound module! |
| Brand | E-mu |
| Model | Audity |
| Device | Synth |
| Type | Keys |
| Engine Type | Digital |
| Engine | Sample |
| Voices (max) | 16 |
| Oscillators | 2 |
| Noise | Y |
| Engine Detailed | 2 SSM Chips with multi-waveforms, Noise Source per voice |
| Filter (VCF) | SSM Filter Chips: High-Pass Filter, Low-Pass Filter. Separate resonant Filter also available. |
| Envelope (VCA) | Envelopes gens for VCOss, VCFss, and VCA's |
| Memory | Multi Patch Storage |
| Keys | 61 |
| Key type | Keys |
| Velocity | No |
| Aftertouch | No |
| Extra info | Only 1 made |
| Produced: | 1979 - 1979 |
| Legend: | Obvious | Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable | |
| VCO | Voltage Controlled Oscillator | DCO | Digital Controlled Oscillator |
| LFO | Low Frequency Oscillator | Sub | Sub Oscillator |
| VCF | Voltage Controlled Filter | VCA | Voltage Controlled Amplifier |
| Velocity | As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. | Aftertouch | Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel. |
| Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise. | |||
