John sent in this image and was wondering what was sitting on top of the PPG 100 Series and below the RSF Expander. You can barely see it but John thinks this might be rare E-mu Audity.
"If it's what I think, well the owner of the studio, is the happy owner of very historic module.I belive it is the Emu Audity module, that was in the possession of Chris Franke of Tangerine Dream in the early 80's and it was included in his modular rack."
If anyone knows please comment or send me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site. Also, if anyone knows the source of this image please let me know. I usually like to link to the source but in this case we do not know.
Update: be sure to see these posts for more including the E-Mu Audity keyboard with a link to samples.
Update via translucent_nick in the comments: "The photo belongs to Mr. Thomas Henze:
http://www.myspace.com/henzman/photos/1164851
thanks to contributions of a huge Tangerine Dream fan, Andy King, I can assure you that it is a basic architecture monosynth module (two OSC's, LFO, filter, two ADSR, glide).
It is very possible that the actual unit it is the Chris Franke's one."
From what I heard the Audity was supposed to have really huge PCBs. Whatever it is doesn't look very deep to me.
ReplyDeleteTo me it looks more like a Friendchip Synchronizer for SMPTE to clicks. Such a thing was in Mr. Franke's rack in the mid eighties.
ReplyDeleteNice to see a PPG HDU under the PPG EVU. But is this really working today? Remember those Winchester Drives (today called hard disks).
Sure the friendchip sycnronizer was in the CF rack, around 1983, Greece/Poland tour, but the thing was the racks long before that -think 1981/82 tours- it was below the Sequential programmer
ReplyDeleteThe photo belongs to Mr. Thomas Henze:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.myspace.com/henzman/photos/1164851
thanks to contributions of a huge Tangerine Dream fan, Andy King, I can assure you that it is a basic architecture monosynth module (two OSC's, LFO, filter, two ADSR, glide).
It is very possible that the actual unit it is the Chris Franke's one.
it's more likely that the monosynth is builded around this Emu Voice card somewhat of an "Audity Lite" voice card:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.emulatorarchive.com/Synthesizers/SSM/SSMVC/ssmvc.html