images via this auction"- It has "Percussive" and "Ensemble" sections, with individual volume sliders. If the "Chorus Phase" butons for both are off, the go out the left and right channels separately. Putting on Chorus Phase "stereoizes" the sound, each can be set separately. There is also a mono mix out and a stereo headphone out.
- There are 2 tuneable oscillators, each can be tuned separately over quite a wide range so you can get nice phasing happening there, from subtle to pretty intense. Total tune varies both at the same time up or down.
- The accent section is straight forward, you can add key-click to the electric piano sound, and the brass "fC" is like variable treble filter to the brass sound. The tone section is simple brightness adjustments for the Ensemble and Percussive sections.
- There is also an octave switch, self-explanatory. I will also mention the joystick, left-and right are a spring-loaded pitch-bend control, and up and down mess with the chorus phase width.
- The Percussive section has a sustain switch, and toggles for Electric Piano, Clavi, Piano, and Harmonics (additional tonal sound many octaves higher). All sounds can be played individually or combined for thick, rich layering. The decay dial affects the 4 sounds, while the tremolo dial works on the sounds when the Tremolo switch is also on.
- The Ensemble section has Brass and Organ sounds, and Chorus (a little like a vocal choir), Strings 1, Strings 2 (an octave higher), and an Attack/Release switch and knobs, which affect the Chorus and Strings sounds only. All sounds layerable. For example if you play the Brass and Chorus with A/R set, the brass will have its usual A/R envelope while the Chorus one will be different, as you set it so it sounds like two keyboards.
Has some kind of natural sounding reverb after you let up the keys, not sure how they did that but it sounds good. Gets turned off when the Attack/Release toggle is on.
I tried putting all 9 sounds on at once, it's really wild, rich, deep and stereo. Lots of possibilities! The last thing I did with it was a 30 minute long jam to try out everything, glad I recorded it
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Here's a guy who really likes his Lambda ES50 synth, has nice description, pics and audio mp3 samples.
SonicState has a good overview, and the user reviews are mostly 5 out of 5"
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