Trend price : 150€
Rackmount rompler expander full of drum kit, scratched vinyls and dirty rhode - Upgrade from previous series EMU Planet Phatt.
Overview
(weight: 3 Kg) Front panel features a LCD display, 9 buttons + 4 knobs for real-time parameter controls.
Back panel terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main out
Voice
Coldfire processor manages 64 voices polyphony. A basic patch is composed by 4 tones PCM sample.
Wavetable
32 MB wavetable contains 1100 PCM at 44 kHz at 16 bit resolution, many PCM were directly recorded from viny-recorded samples, dirty rhodes, noises, hihop and RNB material.
Expansion
MOPHATT can be expanded with the other SIMM ROMS
Filter
50 models of Z-plane filters inspired from the previous Emu Morpheus. First types are the classic ones including lowpass, highpass and bandpass and more sophisticated ones like swept octave EQ, phasers, flangers, vocal formant filters.
LFO
2 interchangeable modulators (0.08 Hz to 18.14 Hz) both can be assigned to and open matrix structure that manages various sources and modulation destinations. Typical destinations are: pitch, amplitude or filter.
Envelope
EG1: amplitude (1 for each layer)
EG2: filter (1 for each layer)
EG3: AUX
assignable
Performance
global mode manages 16 parts each with an arpeggiator- The note/octave range can be assigned as well as velocity gate, latched, looped to specific bars or assigned to 19 different tempo dividers.
Effect
- DSP1: 44 reverb and echo algorithms including hall, room, plate and delay.
- DSP2: 32 modulation algorithms like chorus, flanger, phaser and vibrato.
Memory
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512 RAM patches
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384 ROM patches on the MOPHATT SIMM
- 200 ROM arpeggiator patterns
- 100 RAM arpeggiator pattern
- 12 ROM microtuning
- 12 RAM microtuning.
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: functions / complex routing
NOT : interface / edit
"A rompler with a LOT of edit with EMU know-how. Many waveforms are useless and static, and sampled yoo many times. Good kit drums"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci