E-mu Emax

The Emax was a line of samplers, developed, manufactured, and sold by E-mu Systems from 1986 to 1995.

Sold alongside their more expensive Emulator II and III samplers, the Emax line was conceived after the release of the Akai S-612 and Sequential Prophet 2000, and was designed to compete for the lower end of the sampling market.

The Emax SE added an additive synthesis engine that let the user create sounds from scratch.

[citation needed] Nevertheless, the Emax II found a niche among many professionals due to its large and varied sample library[citation needed], and it enjoyed the longest production run of any E-mu product.

The Emax II Turbo, released in 1990, added more built-in sample memory (8 Mb from factory) and an internal SCSI Hard Disk.