"this was gone over during the past month and fully cleaned, and tested.
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"this is an original RA moog 960 sequencer modified a long time ago by project electronic for EDGAR FROESE (TANGERINE DREAM). thats why the different knobs but i have some original knobs from another one if the buyer wish to have it with the original knobs. these are getting very hard to come by and this particular one has a great history as well. it has been serviced by audio care.gr I WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE AND THE PRICE WILL BE DETERMINED BY WHERE YOU WANT THE ITEM TO BE SENT AND WITH WHAT SERVICE BUYER PAYS FOR SHIPPING."
Signal is mono via headphones. Has built in cable and housed in its own carrying case. Optional voltage converter will be included for free, along with your regional adapter plug, if necessary. All keys and functions tested and found to be fully functional."
It gives you a good number of MIDI control: 5 sliders, 1 button, 1 footswitch input, and 1 proportional pedal input (voltage or resistance). You also get a pitch wheel, increment/decrement buttons to switch songs, banks, and programs , a MIDI Beat Clock feature, 13 transposable velocity-sensitive "drum pads" that is also a one octave keyboard, and a bank of 6 buttons that can be in either "transport mode" (sending MMC/Sequencer Control SysEx) or "trigger mode" (locking on notes to play background pads or rhythms, assignable to any note and channel).
The Liberation is virtually identical to the Moog Prodigy, and includes all the same waveforms and functions PLUS a 44 note keyboard, ring mod, polyphonic mode, noise, and auto-triggering S&H. The oscillator synch works fine and the Moog filter sounds great. The modulation switches and wheels on the neck work for volume, filter, glide, etc. The pressure sensor does not work, therefore the wheel for pressure sensitivity doesn’t do anything; turning on the pressure sensor simply turns on the selected function 100%, which is musically useful so not a problem. This is still completely usable, you just can’t get the “expressiveness”, and I think it’s an easy fix. Other than this I would describe it as functionally excellent with all keys playing in tune and triggering as they should.
Cosmetically it’s very nice but vintage; the white finish has crazing, small chips, and imperfections as shown in the photos, but overall this Liberation shows very nice for a vintage keytar. No cracks, no damage, the keys are all perfectly straight, smooth and perfectly functioning. No signs of it ever being dropped, abused, no key misalignment, etc. The sliders and knobs all move smoothly and work fine, but they could use a cleaning because when you look inside each slider you can see some some dirt and debris. This doesn’t affect the function at all, but it’s something I would do if I were keeping it.
This one is interesting and different from most other Liberations that I’ve seen because it has the following FACTORY installed differences: a pitch bend wheel instead of a ribbon controller (I prefer the wheel over a ribbon); an extra ON/OFF switch on the neck to for sending CV/trigger to an external synthesizer (this is slick if you’re using this to control other gear on stage); there are two 1/4'’ inputs on side of the synth. These outputs are not standard and I don’t see them on most Liberations on the internet, but I believe they are a factory mod. I believe they’re inputs to modulate volume and filter using a foot pedal controller. I wasn’t able to fully test them because I don’t have the correct pedals – probably needs either a variable resistance pedal, or possibly a variable voltage pedal (like a Moog 1120 pedal). An ordinary on/off pedal does cause changes – it worked to switch the volume on/off from one of the ports, so I believe that input controls the volume and the other one controls the filter."
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"When The Peasant started to plan the building of the SynthBend Controller, a comprehensive and innovative design was envisaged. The intent was to create an extremely versatile analogue synthesizer controller for driving the SynthCase System.
