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Monday, February 02, 2015

Kawai SX-240 vintage analog synthesizer

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"Vintage japan analog synthesizer - Kawai SX-240. It is 8 voice polysynth with good sounding DCO and nice SSM filters. So, it is big and good looking machine, with cool led display, which displays the name of patch and some other additional info. The sound itself is wide and big, and you can add onboard quality stereo chorus effect. It has stereo outs, so you can get real stereo chorus sound, or just two separate synth sounds from left and right channels, that is synth is bitimbral. You can split keyboard for two zones, to get one sound from one zone and other sound from other zone. You can even layer one sound on the other sound on all keyboard, to get some complex analog sounds in stereo, really imressive possibility. It has solid bass due to sub osc in dco section. Also there is the "brass" effect which is just ring modulation in fact, so you can extend your sonic palette here. It has onboard MIDI interface. For backup of patches there are tape interface, you can easy make bank of your patches as .wav files on your pc. Patch editing is quite easy and quick, there is one data wheel for data entry, and 4 buttons for goes from one parameter to another, and every parameter indicates by dedicated led. Also there is joystick for sound tweaking, you can point it to bend dco and\or to filter cutoff.

Synth professionally serviced, it is in fully working order, cr2032 battery with socket installed, so no problems with leaking battery in future. Cosmetically it is in exellent shape, just few dings on the sides. There is original Kawai soft bag also, i can include it if you want. AC voltage for synth is 100/110 volt."


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