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Saturday, September 22, 2007
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ReplyDeleteIt's got an FM Sound chip.
ReplyDeleteYM2420 - OPLL2 Sound Chip, an 18 pin DIL which has individual outputs pins for the Drums and Melody. It's multi timbral (the Unisynth can play bassline, drums and your notes, it's got a Casio style auto accompaniment thingy).
Same sound chip as in a Yamaha SHS-10, and PSS-140.
The frets are rubber pressure switches.
Each string is a short piece of wound guitar string that loosely goes over a piezo pickup, which converts to voltage and notes.
The whammy bar bends up in semitone steps, not smooth graduations. You can't do "Learning to Fly" very well on it at all.
There is a mute button in the plastic cover under your right hand to cut off notes (pulling your finger off the fret doesn't work for zero fretted notes).
I'm pretty sure Steve Vai doesn't have one. You can't do tapping on it, you can't play really fast, either.
That all said, it's a very interesting instrument. We've already got one (and the model that's just got Midi out, which has it's own set of weaknesses, like you can't mute notes, there is a "note length" knob on the front), or I'd be buying it.
It's an innovative toy format, and, like many other things; it is in equal strides a valid musical instrument, and an educational toy.