E-mu S-50

Little is documented about an E-mu S-50. The Archive's research files contain no confirmation that E-mu ever produced a model by this name. No specs, dates, prices or design notes have surfaced. The only S-50 in our period sources is Roland's. Mix Magazine (1986, p.93), reporting on samplers, described Roland's S-50 as a 12-bit, 16-voice polyphonic machine with velocity and pressure sensitivity, priced at US$2,895. It mentioned E-mu's Emax at US$2,595 alongside it. That text is about Roland's instrument, not an E-mu model. Whether an E-mu S-50 exists, and what it would have been, remains undocumented.