How It Was Recorded

Gear · keyboard

E-mu Vintage Keys

Sample-based keyboard module, 1993–1994. Sample-based: a digital rack module with 8MB of samples of classic keyboards (electric pianos, organs, analogue synths) played through a low-pass filter, 32 voices. Put sampled vintage keyboards and analogue synths into a single rack unit.

Source, read 15 Nov 2026

Records it appears on · 1

  • Believe

    Cher · Believe, 1998

    • Piano and pad · InstrumentVerifiedSource of the piano sound, based on a Yamaha CP80 electric piano with slight modification, then compressed hard.

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First choice · Emulation of this unit

Digital Sound Factory E-MU Proteus Legacy

instrument

A sample library built from the original E-mu sound sets, including the Vintage Keys module. It needs Native Instruments Kontakt to run.

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