There were also several 3rd party sample libraries for the Emulator II, including the Universe of Sounds series, which collected a huge assortment of samples into an early optical disk format, freeing Emulator users from the floppy disks.Īs the Emulator II was a sample-based instrument, plugin libraries are generally very faithful to the original instrument, and there are a few options to choose from. The Emulator II shipped with a library of factory sounds, some of which have become famous in their own right, such as the Shakuhachi flute heard on Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer and the Marcato Strings patch in the Pet Shop Boys West End Girls. The Emulator II was released in 1984 as a competitor to the CMI Fairlight, and it boasted a cheaper price tag of $7,995 vs $27,500 for the Fairlight. The Emulator II was a favourite of New Order, who also used it extensively throughout their other songs, including Blue Monday. Most of the sounds in Elegia are from the Emu Emulator II, an early sampler keyboard which used 8-bit samples from a floppy disk run through analog filters for responsive sounds. We ended up recording an epic 17-minute, 32-second version of it.” He wrote and played all the keyboards and layered them onto the track. Barney, released from the pressure of singing, was really relaxed.
“We spent the session whizzed off our tits on speed, and although he assumed it was going to take around eight hours, instead we spent ten just programming the sequencer, then putting the bass and guitar down and the drum effect overdubs, even at one point bringing Melvin’s nephews, who called in from school in the afternoon, onto the track and recording them saying their names, ‘Ben and Justin’, over and over again.
In his book Substance: Inside New Order, Peter Hook describes the recording of Elegia, which was recorded in a 24-hour session at CTS Studios in Wembley, London, studio time given to the band for free.
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