The Generalmusic S2 Turbo Demonstration

Uploaded on Nov 15, 2011 keyboardjeff·82 videos
via Synthex Jeff on Facebook in response to this post.

"This is my new S2 Turbo from 1993. It is made by Generalmusic (or GEM) in italy. The weigth is 16 kg, so it is a bit heavy. It can store up to 100 performances, it's 16 part multitimbral, 7 sliders and 7 buttons for real-time control, it has a built-in sampler/sample translator and it has 32 voices of polypohony. So there is plenty of stuff put in this synth.

The sound is made by 2 oscillators per voice (so that's 32 in total). The synthesis methods are : PCM, Wavetables, Multiloop, Crossfade Multiwave and Subtractive Synthesis. It has 2 filters per voice (so that's 32 in total again).
They are two 2 pole dcf's or one 4 pole dcf. Both the filters have 5 modes (Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Par. Cut, Par. Boost) It has a LFO with sine, triangle, saw, square, random and sample&hold waves.

It has plenty of patches and samples in it. You can load all kinds of data and audio in it via the floppy disk drive. It has very nice pith bend and mod wheels on the place you would expect.

The rear panel is very interesting it has these ins and outs (L to R):

2x Midi in
2x Midi out
2x Midi thru
2x Pedal footswitch
1x Pedal volume controller
1x Left and Right wet outputs
4x dry analog outputs (can be assigned to mono or stereo)
AC in

Because of the many midi ins/outs and thru's and 7 realtime-control sliders and buttons, it would be the ideal midi controller or master keyboard."