An Ex-Tears For Fears Emulator 1 and a road trip....

Myself and Mr Blatant Optimism went on a mini road trip last night to go and pick up a free synth from a nice man in Watford.

Now, as someone that seems to hoard old crappy technology I would have probably been interested in getting hold of this Emulator 1 anyway, but seeing as it just happens that this very unit used to belong to Tears For Fears back in the early 80s I think it's safe to say I was extremely bloody keen to get my hands on it. Bit of a fan, you see.

And now I do have my hands on the very same machine. It's currently in many pieces on my living room floor though, as it needs some TLC (which I expected it would to be honest). It is over 20 years old now, and has a serial number of 211, out of the 500 or so they made of this model. Built in 1982. It's incredibly heavy. It has a whole 8 voices (i.e. you can press 8 keys at once), a whopping 128K (yes, that's K) of sample memory (woo!). You can have 2 samples in memory, both being a maximum of 2 seconds long. How ghetto is that then?!

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