E-mu Drumulator

E-mu Drumulator was the sample-based drum-machine by E-mu Systems. It was introduced in 1983 at a price of US$995. The Drumulator was E-mu's attempt at creating a rhythm machine like the Linn LM-1 that was better and cheaper. It was used a lot in early 1980s in synthpop and Italo-disco productions. In 1984, Digidrums released special EPROMs for Drumulator, which included the Rock Drums set that was used on Tears for Fears' hit "Shout" and "Beastie Groove" for Beastie Boys by Rick Rubin.

Notable users

Year	Artist	Album	Songs
1983	Cocteau Twins	Head over Heels	"My Love Paramour"
	Cocteau Twins	Sunburst and Snowblind
	Depeche Mode	Construction Time Again	"Everything Counts", "Love, in Itself"
	Keith LeBlanc		"Malcolm X: No Sell Out"
	Valerie Dore		"The Night", "Get Closer"
1984	Fun Fun		"Color My Love"
	Howard Jones	Human's Lib
	Kenny Loggins	Footloose	"Footloose"
	Rockwell	Somebody's Watching Me	"Somebody's Watching Me"
	Carol Jiani		"Touch and Go Lover"
	Cocteau Twins	Treasure
1985	Bad Boys Blue		"Hot Girls, Bad Boys"
	Game Theory	Real Nighttime	"She'll Be a Verb"
	Lou Reed	OST White Nights	"My Love is Chemical"
	Tears for Fears	Songs from the Big Chair	"Shout", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World "
	Front 242	No Comment
1986	Jean-Michel Jarre	Rendez-Vous
	Nu Shooz		"I Can't Wait"
1987	Big Black	Songs About Fucking
	Depeche Mode	Music for the Masses	"Never Let Me Down Again"
2001	Liars	They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top	"Mr Your On Fire Mr", "Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris", "We Live NE of Compton"
	Ultravox

External links

• http://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/drumulator.php
• http://www.retrothing.com/2010/05/remembering-the-emu-drumulator.html
• http://www.theemus.com/documentation/drumulator/Drumulator_Owners_Manual.pdf