How It Was Recorded

Gear · drum machine

E-mu Emulator (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 1

  • Black or White

    Michael Jackson · Dangerous, 1991

    • Drum machine, samples and percussion · InstrumentVerifiedSupplied the simple drum-machine pattern Bottrell put down on the first day.

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Arturia Emulator II V

instrument

Models E-mu's Emulator II, an 8-bit sampler of the same line. The source does not name the model, so this stands for the maker's family of units: it is not a model of the one on the record.

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