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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

M&A Analog percussion synthesizer

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"Up for auction is a very rare M&A Electronic Percussion Synthesizer K2. Made in England in 1982 . It was part of an electronic drum set. This module is comparable with a Simmons SDS-8 Drums, but this module has 8 VCO's over 8 different channels, which can be controlled by manual mode or preset mode. Onboard presets are: 1.B-Drum: 2.Snare: 3.Hi-hat: 4.Cym-1: 5.Tom-1: 6.Tom-2: 7.Cym-2: 8.Tom-3. The manual mode has a Pulse, Trigger led, Decay (which also works on the presets), Pad Sens, VCO Sweep, VCO Pitch, Noise, (can be balanced between VCO and Noise ) Noise filter and a Click. Every channel can be balanced and has an independent volume control and a direct output. Speed can also controlled from slow to very fast, manual mode as well preset mode. Also onboard are mix outputs to pan stereo with level, bass and treble control. There is a Micro Sequencer with different patterns. It is not really a sequencer but it has more a demo function. Unfortunately the switch is broken, but can be fixed easily. Every channel can be controlled by an Aux Trigger signal. If you like Kraftwerk you will like this machine (used on the Kraftwerk album Trance Europe Express) and if you tune all channels together by taking off the back panel (power turned off )and adjusting the trim pot’s you can create real heavy monster basses and sounds!"




1 comment:

  1. Anyone know where I might get a schematic for one of these?

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