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"1979 Analog & Polyphonic Synth made by EMS. Serial n° 18 out a serie of 51 units produced"
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I always thought it was one of the best looking synths. I especially like the fonts used on the panel. The colors and layout are great too!
ReplyDeleteSomeone has to make videos of this synth.
@xonox - agreed! Still intrigued by that architecture. Voltage controlled treatments around a top-octave-generator/divider polyphonic sound source. Not so good if you want 'conventional' polyphonic synthesis, but I'm betting that for distorted organ-type sounds, or tone clusters, there was some mileage to be had. I wish one could still buy top-octave-generator chips!
ReplyDeleteI played one of these many, many years ago. I was all set up for it being the most amazing thing ever - I mean, it's an EMS, right? - but it was pretty bad. The main thing I remember is that there was this unpleasant squarewave-ish character, no matter what you did with the sliders. The looks are undoubtedly stylish in their way, and it's an undeniable rarity, so I guess it'll go for loads, but it's a clunker in my experience.
ReplyDeletei had one for a weekend many years ago and agree with n_phay that it's a clunker.
ReplyDeleteI owned one of these bad boys (s/n 31) for a few years and it was in much better condition than this one. Its a basic synth and better suited to effects more than polysynth sounds. It effectively (no pun intended) had an electro harmonix memory man built in which was fabulous. The whole keyboard assembly used to rock to get the aftertouch/filter/lfo to kick in. You could get some amazing weird effects with it and also some great bass sounds but to get them you had to crank the parametric eq/filter onboard, without it, it was a bit weedy and thin sounding without it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I had one but part exchanged it for a mk1 Fender Rhodes Stage 73 and haven't missed it since. It is absolutely massive though - it must be a contender for the deepest regular synth panel ever, despite its size, it wasn't very heavy.