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emu morpheus

audio demo Country: USA
Weight: 3 kg
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audio demo trend price : 200€
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Emu Morpheus
Z-plane Synthesizer (1993)



Rackmount
synthesizer able to "morph" sounds creating motion textures and evolving pads, simply using the control wheel controller.

The following year Emu released the Ultraproteus an updated version with different wavetable set.

morpheus and ultraproteus !
morpheus and ultraproteus !

info RACKMOUNT 1 standard unit. The main panel features a 16 x 2 lines display, 8 buttons and 1 data encoder.

Back panel terminal connectors:
- Midi interface
- main output
- 2 assignable AUX

Front panel terminal connectors:
- headphones out
- data card slot.




editVOICE a 16 bits core Motorola MC68020 manages 32 voices polyphony - relative DACS are 6 x AD186N by Analog Devices.
A basic sound patch is a combination of 2 samples called "primary" and "secondary" - each with individual parameters:
- stereo panning
- keyrange
- pitch tune
- monophonic with portamento
- reverse sample play
- loop mode
- oscillators crossfade osc1-> osc2 / osc2 -> osc2.



morphing



edit
WAVETABLE is a 8 MB ROM contains 242 PCM waves at 39 kHz / 16 bits.
The Morpheus wavetable contains various kind of PCM including:


drums choir strings organs moog bass
guitar harmonics piano basic (e.g square) ethno percussion



wavetable





playmodes MULTIMBRAL
the hypermode manages 16 parts with individual settings:
- volume / panning
- transpose
- keyboard zone
- velocity offset.

 

morphing




filter FILTER
there are 197 pre-calculated filters (Z-PLANE) combinations of 20 comb EQ with variable bandwidth parameters. Special Morphing Function interpolates 3 parameters of 2 selected filter models simply using the modulation wheel. Z-planes FULL LIST

 

filter


morph3




adsr ENVELOPE
3 EGs:
- Primary amp : 4 segments +2 level times
- Secondary amp: 4 segments +2 level times
- AUX assignable: 4 segments +2 level times
Special function generator segments a curve in 8 parts and creates a special motion mode using 64 preset shapes (linear, exponential or random).


adsr

 



lfo LFO
2 digital modulators and 4 destinations:
- LFO to filter cutoff
- LFO to stereo panning image
- LFO to volume
- LFO to sample pitch.
Modulators offer various parameters such as depth, delay, variance mode (natural strings instruments emulation) and 5 different shapes (triangle, sinusoidal, square, saw and random).


lfo

 



fx EFFECT
there are 28 effects including: ring modulation, reverb, shimmer, phaser, delay, echo and fuzz.



adsr MATRIX
matrix mod codes every parameters from one the another with many different path routing assignable to Midi CC#, Emu knows the job ! these are really similar on the one found on the EMU samplers like ULTRA series.


SOURCES: DESTINATIONS:
pitch wheel pitch OSC 1-2
Midi control assignable ABCD volume OSC 1-2
mono pressure ADSR osc1-2
polyphonic pressure crossfade
LFO1 LFO1-2 amount/rate
LFO2 AUX EG amount
AUX EG AUX EG ADSR
function generator 1 portamento OSC1-2
function generator 2 filter morph 1-2
free run function generator pan 1-2
  function gen1 -2 amount




edit MEMORY:
- 128 ROM presets
- 128 RAM sounds
RAM card doubles using PCMCIA SRAM cards.
Battery replacement: model BR-2330, but I managed to use more common BR-2325 model.



morpheus and ultraproteus !




edit EDIT softwares for the module:
- Midiquest ($$$, PC/Mac) PIC
- Galaxy editor (old mac) PIC
- Zeus (freeware, Atari ST) PIC
- Morphedit (freeware,old PC)


morphedit

 


edit
QUESTION IS...

Morpheus or Ultraproteus?

Some people prefer Morpheus for the more ambient-oriented waveforms, but Ultraproteus is more powerful including more z-filters and a bigger wavetable.

morpheus and ultraproteus !

morpheus and ultraproteus !

 

 

effet VST PLUGIN / SAMPLED VERSION there are some free and commercial samples set:

  name price link demo
free morpheus samples Rhythm lab free
sample set 65Mb
effet n/a
audio oddy Creative/EMU Emulator X3 Commercial VST
a sampler with Zfilters.
Closest plugin available
emulator x3 emulator X3



demoAUDIO DEMO

demo factory demo1
demo factory demo 2
demo factory demo 3
demo factory demo 4
demo 100% zplanes demo
demo noisy sequence
demo zplane filtering
demo Aieyeeee
demo welcome to morpheus
demo deep pad
demo space pad
demo another deep pad
demo filtrering percussions xp
demo sample offset for glitch



video VIDEO CLIP SELECTION

E-Mu Morpheus Z-Plane Synthesizer Emu Morpheus Demo
Z-Plane Synthesizer Demo

 

module morpheus emu




manual
EMU MORPHEUS MANUAL

 

 

 




manual
EMU MORPHEUS USER MANUAL

 

 

 




factory
DOWNLOAD
ORIGINAL PATCH SET

 

 

 


MORPHEUS FACTORY RESET

Hold both cursor keys held down to access diagnostic mode while powering on. Only initialise and reboot from the diagnostics page.

reset

 

 

 

 

original scan
edit original brochure

 

 

 

 

Emu Morpheus for sale

Emu Morpheusfor sale
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full midi commodore sid connections


manual

- best Z-planes of all EMU
- sound motion

- now cheap

manual

-too complicated for most users, besides the edit interface and lack of modern editor just makes hard to program in a decent way.

comment

REVIEW: "A lot of interesting functions, even if those machines today sound a bit outdated... excellent digital textures, but patience is required. Too bad EMU simplified the Z plane concept."

 
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