Electronic Music Laboratories

Electronic Music Laboratories, commonly abbreviated to EML, was a synthesizer company founded in 1968 in Vernon, Connecticut, United States. It manufactured and designed a variety of synthesizers sharing the same basic design principles.

The company was founded by Gerber Scientific employees Dale Blake, Norman Millard, Dennis Daugherty, and Jeff Murray, who were due to be laid off from the company. Following the schematics of a fellow audio engineer, Fred Locke, the four made synthesizers that directly competed with those of Moog and ARP. Although their synthesizers were not as sophisticated as those of their competitors, they were marketed as being much more reliable, in part due to their use of op-amps instead of discrete transistors.

The company's original EML-200 was designed in part for Connecticut's "Pilot Electronic Project" as an educational tool for secondary school students. The program was created by then-State Music Consultant Lloyd Schmidt.

Although the company stopped manufacturing synthesizers in 1976 following the departure of two of their employees to found Star Instruments (makers of the Synare line of drum synthesizers), EML continued to operate until 1984, designing and manufacturing products for others and repairing their synthesizers.