ROLAND RS-09

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"The Rs-09 is really cool, it was Roland last string synth. This was offered on the market when the only other options for polyphonic analog synths were the expensive beast such as the Jupiter 8.
This small synth is still a serious contender for analog strings. Its chorus ensemble makes it sound lush, rich, heavenly! The chorus is available to the organ and string section as well as to the external input!!!

The Rs-09 was used by many artist in the 80s like The Cure and Cybotron.

The organ section has 4 drawbars and to combinable organ type, it also has its own seperate output.
The synth section (available simultaneously) has two combinable string sounds at 8' and 16'.

Both parts can be modified by the tone control and vibrato (with delay) can be added to add emotion to the sounds, this little vibrato feature makes for a very expressive isntrument.

The Rs-09 sounds great, looks great and is very portable, it's from the same family of isntruments as the Tr-808 and Sh-09 and shares the same sides and a similar design."