[fit2rule]

The Emulator was a pretty decent early commercial sampler product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_Emulator

It was called such, because it could be used to 'emulate any instrument' by recording it, and playing back the samples ..

[DanBC]

E-mu made my favourite drum machine, the drumulator.

If you open it up you can lift then reseat an IC (I think it's the only one in a socket) and you get random drum patterns and sometimes those a great.