How It Was Recorded

Gear · sampler

E-mu Emulator I

Records it appears on · 3

  • Walking on Sunshine

    Katrina and the Waves · Walking on Sunshine, 1985

    • Organ part · InstrumentReportedCollier thinks the organ-like part, played by Glennie-Smith, was a sampling keyboard, probably an Emulator, rather than a real Hammond.
  • Billie Jean

    Michael Jackson · Thriller, 1982

    • Sampled-voice melody (verse two) · InstrumentReportedDetuned unison sample of Jackson's voice playing a melody, doubled by the real stringsSettings: Single voice sample, sampled twice with one voice detuned in unison mode
  • West End Girls

    Pet Shop Boys · Please, 1986

    • Strings and trumpet solo · InstrumentVerifiedPlayed the standard string sound on one track of the continuous string part.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Arturia Emulator II V

instrument

Models the Emulator II, the successor to the sampler used here.

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