[For Pretty Hate Machine] "We had an Emulator 2, Emax, PPG Wave, Oberheim Expander..." Chris Vrenna, prism films interview

In an interview featured on prince.org, a photo from Prince's storage room reveals an E-mu Emax SE synthesizer on display. While it's known that Dr. Fink transferred Fairlight samples to the Emax II, there's speculation about the possibility of similar samples being placed in this Emax SE, although this is not confirmed.

Martin Gore played an Emu Emax HD/SE and a Yamaha DX7 IID during the "Music for the Masses" tour.

In the Sound on Sound article titled "UNSOUND RECORDINGS," Alan Wilder's use of the E-mu Emax is confirmed, as it is listed third under samplers in his Recoil equipment list.

At 35:10 cEvin shows a clip of himself demonstrating how Skinny Puppy would use the E-MU Emax I for the recording of "Too Dark Park".

Studio buffs tend to forget that modern recording studios are imposing and disorientating places for the average lay person. The technology seems to be surpassed in complexity only by military and space hardware, and Mark King's 'home' studio is certainly state of the art, as the above listing indicates. There's also a Macintosh SE30 with Performer software, an SRC SMPTE-to-MIDI convertor, Adams Smith Zeta 3, NS 10 and Tannoy DTM8 monitors, and two Otari MTR90 24-track recorders with 48 tracks of Dolby SR. Sound sources include a DX7, Roland D110 and 550, Yamaha TX816, Juno 60, Emu III and Emax, Casio CZ101, plus an Akai-Linn MPC60 workstation and a DDrum 2 drum sampler.

Along with his Ensoniq VFX and Prophet 5, Barbieri used an Emax, D50 and the System 700. All were set up as if for a live performance - routed through various effects processors and then to the studio desk. Anyone able to recall the image of Barbieri hunched studiously over his stage keyboard rig from the Japan days will remember the distinctive shape of an Oberheim OBX too. (http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/sons-of-pioneers/2166)

Andy Fletched played an E-mu Emax HD/SE and a Yamaha DX7 IID during the "Music for the Masses" tour.

This 1988 article lists an E-max sampler among David Sylvian’s gear.

"Our sound sources include quite a lot of original analog gear (OSCAR, Korg Poly-6, EMS synthi, Roland Juno60 - all midi-retro fitted BTW) plus the usual samplers (Emax, s1000, Samplecell II). These are controlled by sequencers including Studio Vision, Cubase and the "retro-style" Doepfer (originally made for Kraftwerk). The sounds are intially effected by various standard echoes and FX including a Roland SDX-330 Dimensional Expander (3D-ish) and a Boss SE70 (good vocoder presets!)."

In a video titled "Jorge Gonzales documental la cultura de la basura" on YouTube, at minute 0:58 Jorge González is seen using the E-mu Emax synthesizer. This synthesizer was also used for the album "La Cultura de la Basura."

In this photo Dwayne is standing behind 2 keyboards, the lower one is clearly an Emu Emax. I can't see if its an SE or HD version because the higher efinition model is dientical to the SE apart from the letters 'HD' instead of 'SE' next to the Emax logo.