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"Rar, fancy: vintage EML Synkey vintage analog punch-card programmable synthesizer in recently adjusted; absolute top condition. It's the top rar: OVATION - version. Fully works and sounds incredible: The low-pass filter goes to high-pass filter and the band-pass in between and this is extremely effective. It has ringmodulator and some arpeggioator-like LFO-waveform varies due to the speed. It's unique and you can make some unpredictable polyphonic arpeggiations. Dealing with punch-card makes this machine very exotic! So maybe you bid on technically one of the best Synkey of the world! Pitty, it runs on American standard current 110 V , so there's a 220 V -adapter in need or comit me to do the modification for some extra (ca. 35-50EU depending on trafo)!"
"... these came out as early as in 1976, not 1978/79 as stated on most synth-sites out there. At least, this is what I was told by one of the founders/owners of the EML company - States Mikael. Thank you for the info! "
Update via the comments: "The Synkey service manual I have dates the individual drawings from about April 1974 to March 1975. 1976 therefore seems about right."
The Synkey service manual I have dates the individual drawings from about April 1974 to March 1975.
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i have just about all the eml line and i have to say the synkey ain't so hot... but you can hear it a bit on this remix we did.
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I owned one of these in 1978, it was a fun synth. One particularly cool thing was an amazingly slow portamento. It could take 30-40 seconds to sweep from the lowest key to the highest. Very useful for some ELP stuff, and the tone assignment buttons made for some cool solos with 4th's and 5th's added in. The filters were nice, and the unit had a very solid feel to it.
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