"[The Residents] had never toured before because their music depended so much on the studio and they feared that it would not translate well to stage. However, the invention of EM-U's Emulator in 1981 was a big step forward in music creation. The Emulator was the first affordable sampler, and it allowed musicians to take all those sounds which can't be produced by conventional instruments and play them back with great precision and control. They were so impressed that, ever the technophiles, they ordered one immediately. Their first one was Emulator #0005. The band used it extensively on the second Mole Trilogy album, The Tunes of Two Cities, and started experimenting with using it to perform music from The Mark of the Mole live in their studio."

As detailed from this page by the Residents themselves.

Kitaro is known to use the E-Mu Emulator I synthesizer, as detailed on Gigapolis. This synthesizer can be heard on albums such as "Ten-Jiku" and "Silver Cloud," as well as in performances captured on "Live in Asia" and "Towards the West."

At 1:49 in the video for "Kayleigh" an Emulator can be seen on the bottom of the stack behind Mark.

"Keyboard-wise, I've just got a Prophet 2000 sampler which is great fun. I've got a Roland Jupiter 6 and two Yamaha DX7s; an Oberheim OBXa synth which I'm just about to have adapted for MIDI so that I can sequence it from the QX1; and there's a beaten-up old Emulator 1 sampler, which I probably won't use any more now I've got the Prophet 2000."

In the video titled "David Rosenthal - A Keyboard Serenade" by APlace in Time, David Rosenthal is seen playing an array of synthesizers, including the E-Mu Emulator I. Other instruments featured include a Memorymoog Plus, Oberheim OB-Xa, Minimoog, and various Roland synthesizers.

In a YouTube video by Alex Ball titled "How the Terminator 2 Music Was Made," Brad Fiedel is mentioned using the E-Mu Emulator I during the creation of the original Terminator score.

"My studio was called Pi West, and the initial bank of keyboards there when John and I started out working together were the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev3, a Prophet 10, an early ARP Quadra and two ARP Avatars — one Avatar was integrated with a Sequential Circuits Model 700 programmer — an ARP Sequencer, an Oberheim Four Voice, and an Emulator 1 sampler."

Discussed on this forum post about DiCola's Equipment.

Martin is credited with "Emulator" in the liner notes for the album Junk Culture.

Richard Gibbs can be seen using the original E-Mu Emulator in this YouTube video of an Oingo Boingo festival appearance in 1983, at 1:31 into the video, during 'Cry of the Vatos'. It can also be heard on the studio recording of the same track.

Info fom the 1993 Album Cover . air liquide - air liquide . (1993 blue 006) cd

Arp 2600 EML Electro comp 101/EML 400 EMS VCS 3/ Vocoder 3000/ Hifli E-mu Emulator 1/ Modular/ SP 1200 Korg MSM/ PS 3100/ PS 3300 Moog 55/ adv. Memory Moog/ Prodigy Oberheim SEM/ SEM 4 Voice/ DMX/ Matrix12 OSCar Rhodes Chroma RMI Keyboard Computer II Roland System 700/ System 100M/ SH101/ JD800/ TR909/ TR808/ TR727/ TR606/TB303 (3x)/ SH09/ SH5/ MKS7/ MKS30/ MKS50/ MKS80/ S750/ SVC350/ SPV350/ JX3P/ Jupiter 8 RSF Kobol Exp.II SCi Prophet10/ P600/ Pro One/ DrumTraks Steiner Parker Modular/ Synthecon Synthanorma Octavfilter Synergy II+ Synton Syrinx Yamaha CS 30L/ CS 15/ CS 80

Interview with Steve Levine in which he discusses the E-mu Emulator I.