UM-2 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Sameli.

Much more on the UM-2 here. Specs and one shot pulled below just in case that site dissapears.



"Generally the concept of this stylish instrument can be best compared with a Casio Rapman RAP-1, although this thing has some more feature and is less keyboard oriented."

main features:

* 13 midsize keys (long, black keys need much pressure)
* 2 built- in 10cm speakers (with some bass, mono)
* stylish microphone & headphones
* keyboard polyphony 4 notes (only 3 with background pattern loop)
* 8 keyboard preset sounds (selected in 4 step sequences by 2 buttons, ignores key press duration, names choosen by me)
o 1-4 {banjo, bubbeling synth pad, tekkno chord, lead synth}
o 5-8 {piano, sitar, sitar+piano, ah scratch}
* 24 preset background pattern loops (mislabelled "rhythms", selected in 6 step sequences by 4 buttons)
* tempo +/- buttons (control sound loop sample playback speed)
* button controls in tape deck style {reverse, stop, play. pause, fast}
* master volume knob
* separate microphone and AUX/CD volume knobs (can not be set to 0)
* scratch disc
* 5 OBS disc scratch effect buttons
1. play effect sample 1/ play effect sample 1 backward (proportional speed)
2. play effect sample 1/ play effect sample 2 (ignores speed)
3. play semi- random effect samples (selected by speed and direction)
4. sound loop speed change (slowly returns to normal speed)
5. sound loop speed change (speed returns to 0, like manually turning a record)
* 20 disc effect sounds (selected in 10 step sequences by 2 buttons)
o 1-10
o 11-20
* "effect mixer keys" controller (2 directions play a different sample, 32 samples selected through 4 rubber buttons)
* voice changer switch {normal, low tone, robot, high tone}
* all preset sounds based on low & medium resolution samples
* CPU= "Potex Z0650AA7101, 4" (36+2 pin COB module) with DC controllable clock oscillator
* separate voice changer IC "Z0650AA7102, 16" (COB on small daughter board)
* auto power-off
* "speaker/ headphone" switches for main voice and AUX/CD (make loud popping noise)
* control panel illumination lamp
* extendable platform for portable CD player
* jacks for headphone, microphone, AUX/CD input