Title link takes you to shtos via this auction."he Sequential Split 8 is Japanese produced analog synth marketed by Sequential Circuits. It is very similar in voice architecture and sound to the MultiTrak and SixTrak. All of these synths as well as the Akai AX 60 use one Curtis SENTE (CEM 3394) chip per voice. The Split 8 has eight voices where as the others mentioned above only have 6. The Split 8 seems to be designed for more use as a traditional analog poly synth like the Prophet 5 than as an analog workstation like the SixtTrak and MultiTrak. The Split 8 is capable of doing splits and layers and this is really its strength. As it has 8 voices, you can double up the oscilators and still have 4 note polyphony! By creating a split you can basically have a 4 voice synth with two oscilators per voice that can be detune really thickening up your pads. In split mode the Split 8 is also capable of Poly Mod like the Prophet 5 which uses once voice in the stack to modulate the other. Neither the SixTrak or MultiTrak have this ability. The Split 8 can also stack up all 8 voices to have one massive monosynth; great for supper thick leads and weighty basses!"
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same thing (after it became a small seller in Japan, SCI quickly took control back I think - one version was produced only by a japanese sub-company)
That's funny, I wonder good the new Prophet '08 sounds compared to this one.
ReplyDeleteoh the new prophet will be DIMESIONS better for sure. the old one (like those smaller digital Prophets i.e. pro 600, six-trak had a fairly slow adsr envelope and some voice issues...not really a substitute for the "real thing" (Pro 5) at the time
ReplyDeletebut one could get decent mono lead (VERY SCI quality)/ bass / fx sounds out of them
*dimensions*, and *digitally controlled by some crap chip like z-80* analog synth i.e. six-trak, pro 600
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I had one for 6 months, and I really regret getting rid of it, but, I had to at the time, sadly.
ReplyDeleteIt had an envelope bug where one of the envelope values (maybe attack) was out of order. I don't know if that was a CPU or a CEM issue.
It was a fun synth. I did one of my seminal serialist experiments with it.
Pulsations
Which you can read about on
My Music page of my website.
My recollection is that you can't route the LFO to the VCAs. To make this patch gate on and off, however, I used the LFO set to pulse wave, and made the pulse-width of the oscillators go from desired width down to so thin you didn't hear anything. An interesting work around that worked with that particular keyboard at that particular time!
hey, good one Loscha, i'm going to try it on my alpha juno 2.
ReplyDeletenevermind, aj2 isn't cool enough.
ReplyDeleteI've got one of these, love it. Interesting that loscha mentions the EG problem - mine does something like this, setting decay to 10 gives a quick decay, more like a setting of 1. True for VCA or VCF envelope. All the other values (0-15, excluding 10) behave themselves.
ReplyDeleteSome audio clips lower right of ricardipus.blogspot.com - some of those tunes use the Split-8, among other things.