images via this auction"The Synergy II + was made famous by Wendy Carlos on the legendary recording "Beauty in the Beast", the Synergy essentially replaced her Moog modular system. The Synergy is a Phase Modulation/Additive synthesizer. Phase Modulation is very similar to FM found on the Synclavier and Yamaha DX style synths. The main difference is that the Synergy has FAR more parameters and features when it comes to creating sounds. For
example the Phase Modulation algorithms are user defined with up to 16 oscillators available. The envelopes have up to 16 stages/per osc, and are loopable. Each program/sound consists of 2 'boundaries' which are essentially 2 separate timbres. You can morph between these timbres via velocity and key number. Voice allocation is very sophisticated, allowing for very complex 'floating' keyboard splits/layers/voice cycling. One can easily say that there are many amazing features on this instrument which have never been equaled or surpassed in other synthesizers."
I love the Synergy. It's still one of the best digital synths TONALLY. Warm and punchy, certain sits well in a mix - not all thin and buzzy. Too bad about this one though - the keyboard only has two dozen sounds built in. You really NEED the cartridges or a KAYPRO computer with discs to make it viable. And this one seems to have the Tolex peeled off the bottom half. Some are Synergy II+ with MIDI...
ReplyDeleteAh - I reread the auction; no internal voices there. No sounds at all. Hmm... but it does have the MIDI option added, which is good.
ReplyDeleteTried e in a shop once in the 80's. Very nice, but the need for the Kaypro computer was a no-go.
ReplyDeleteIs there an editor/librarian for the MIDI version?
Tried e in a shop once in the 80's. Very nice, but the need for the Kaypro computer was a no-go.
ReplyDeleteIs there an editor/librarian for the MIDI version?