FORMANTA EMS-01 - SOVIET ANALOG DUAL SYNTHESIZER ORGAN

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"FORMANTA EMS-01 is an electronical music instrument combining a polyphonic organ and a monophonic synthesizer. It was produced by Katchkanar radio equipment factory "Formanta", which is the manufacturer of such well-known makes of synthesizers as Polivoks, Formanta, Maestro etc. It bears the same logo on the package and retains some of its most impressive capabilities. It is designed to perform music of all genres and to create various sound effects while recording soundtracks for movies and plays, or studio recording. The organ has a 5-octave keyboard, 6 preset sound timbres, frequency vibrato with adjustable vibrato delay, decay adjustment and a stereophaser (both for organ and synthesizer). The "vibrato delay" scheme is activated again only after all the previously pressed keys are released. In the "legato" mode the "vibrato delay" scheme is not activated.

Synthesizer has:
- 3-octave keyboard;
- modulator, modulation voltage from which is applied to frequency modulator, width modulator, filter, and amplifier;
- broad band oscillators 1 and 2 (with various waveforms);
- mixer, designed for summation of signals from oscillators 1 and 2, noise generator, external source, and ring modulator;
- filter, designed for dynamic and static changing of the spectrum of summarized signal from mixer output;
- amplifier, designed for making the sound corresponding to various parameters of the envelope;

Organ has:
- 5-octave keyboard;
- 6 Waveforms;
- Freq vibrato with- Rate, Depth and Delay
- Stereo Phaser (For both organ and synth) with rez level
- Sustain level"