The PWL complex is well-equipped, no doubt about it, with two out of three studios identically equipped with SSL desks, Sony 24-track digital machines, and generous amounts of outboard equipment. These are supported by the most comprehensive collection of keyboards this writer has ever witnessed in a studio: Fairlight III, Kurzweil, PPG Waveterm, Roland JX8P, Publison Infernal Machine (which Stock describes as "a Godsend"), Emulator II, DX7II, and so on.

Martin can be seen playing an E-mu Emulator II sampling keyboard in this video, at 1:24.

Stephen Hague used the Emulator II a lot on the Pet Shop Boys' Please album, released 1986. At that time the Emulator was his workhorse. He even played the "West End Girls" trumpet solo on the Emulator.

"We use our producer's Emulator II for long vocal samples and flying in choruses, although on Perfect Beat we felt that the quality wasn't quite good enough so we sampled some chorus and repeat vocals into an MDB Window Recorder and a Publison. Then we triggered them off the QX1, so you get some really neat triple repeats and things."

Shawn Rudiman uses an E-Mu Emulator II, as seen in a studio photo from Iheartsynths.

"For instance, on the Melba Moore album I used the Yamaha RX11 drum machine with the individual outputs, which is MIDIable. I would write the song pattern on the RX11 and then MIDI it up to something else. I was MIDIing to an Emulator II which had samples on it which you could tune. It's basically using it instead of a Fairlight except you're not restricted to using Fairlight samples or Emulator samples. You could mix the RX11 sounds with the Emulator sounds, or you could trigger the DX7 with the RX11, or even an analogue synth via MIDI."

In video from 1986 MTV Spring Break Concert in Daytona Beach, Steve George play on E-MU Emulator II.

Although the main bulk of the keyboards were played by Pat Seymour, Feargal actually played keyboards on almost every track. A keen computer music enthusiast, he has a collection of keyboards including a Korg CX3, a recently acquired Emulator II, a Jupiter 8 and two Casios, the CZ101 and 5000.

Neil Kernon confirms his use of the E-Mu Emulator II for keyboard work, stating, "As far as keyboards went, some of the sounds were from a Roland Juno, but mainly we used an Emulator 2, along with several other popular keyboards at the time, things like Yamaha DX7 etc. A huge amount of the keyboard work was sampling, and we used raw material from field recordings that I did in Vancouver and Seattle, along with other things we grabbed from TV and radio broadcasts etc. All of that was manipulated using the Emulator and a Mac Plus computer." This information is supported by a discussion from the Gearspace forum, specifically in the thread titled "Queensryche making of Rage For Order video."

In the provided photo, Brett Tuggle is seen using the E-Mu Emulator II.

As mentioned in this forum, Doughty used it for the electronic sax solo on "Variety Tonight" from REO Speedwagon's 1987 album Life as We Know It.

From John's Tweet:

"Used one of these monsters live with Ozzy in the 80s. Seem to remember there were accusations about parts of the show being fake as someone reported hearing voices “coming from a keyboard”. It held a total 17.6 seconds of sample time! How fake would that be by today’s standards?"