via this auction. via phillip."The Poly-Box is an odd piece of synthesizer technology. It's basically a small-remote keyboard controller for ancient analog synths, but with a twist. It takes control of your analog synthesizer and, even though they're monophonic, the Poly-Box will create polyphony by programmable chord memory presets. Designed for use via CV/Gate with these Related synths. Here is how EML describes it: 'Poly-Box is a pitch following variable chord generator controlled by your synthesizer and Poly-Box's own keyboard with built-in memory. Poly-Box takes a single pitch from your synthesizer and creates two banks of pitch sources. Each pitch bank contains 13 simultaneously available pitch sources at precise semitone intervals - covering an entire chromatic octave. The pitch banks may be in the same or different octaves, and can cover the range from one above to three octaves below the synthesizer oscillator.'"
ISYWCMIIW*, but this thing doesn't take CV. It takes a signal from your monosynth and phase locks a top octave divider to it. I've got an old spec sheet for one of these somewhere...didn't someone post an mp3 of an old hissy cassette track that uses the polybox on AH a while ago?
ReplyDelete*I'm sure you will correct me if I'm wrong
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ReplyDeleteThe thing looks pretty cool. We need more one octave keyboards, I'm serious, not joking. Theres not a whole lot of them out there, and there is probably a good reason why, but I can't think of any right now.
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