Via Craigslist, Vancouver BC
"-small and portable;
-cool "retro" fake-wood chassis;
-very expressive
-warm analog sound;
-sound "matrix" with 30 presets.
This is a little, fun synthesizer! I find it very expressive, and - after a bit of practicing using the Traveler and Modulation Depth sliders, you can get amazingly "felt" usic passages. Of course, being this small, it has many limitations: the attack and sustain knobs won't work with all families of sounds, and so the traveler (filter) effect.
The momentary Portamento-on switch is very useful - so you can add portamento only when you need it (i.e., on a trombone patch, only when you want it to "slide"). The Random Repeat feature is a "random vibrato" effect, but it subtle and chaotic-sounding. This synth can sound very similar to a Theremin, and it can definitely nail down the sound from "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.
Reportedly this synthesizer was used for the synth line in the '80s hit "Enola Gay" by OMD!"
I got the above off the internet. Really, this is an awesome keyboard that i don't have much use for anymore. If you're into spacey blips and bleeps, or into collecting cool keyboards, this is the one for you. As you can tell by the picture a couple of knobs are missing, but the last time it was played there was nothing wrong with the machine sound wise. "
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