via this eBay listing
"There weren't many more than a couple thousand made. The Mark Vail book goes into some detail on the company's history. It functions very well for its age, smaller electrolytic caps have been replaced, pots and switches have been cleaned. Like anything this old, it has its quirks, but this synth when new was kind of its own special thing. No Modifications or custom "Improvements". Missing handle. Otherwise in pretty nice shape.
Has not been calibrated recently, but span and octave tuning are close enough to play fairly well. (keys per octave fine tuning has to be full sharp for accurate octave, I think it was just mistakenly set that way when tuned last) A pot or two might still be a little scratchy from sitting, but you'll have that. I may clean it while packing if I find time. Full service manual, schematics, and documentation are available online.
Features:
4 VCO's 2 can be LFO's, all have some degree of continuously variable waveform blend -runs 1.2v/Oct
Tons of odd as well as conventional internal modulation switching and routing options
4 channel source mixer
VCF (Love it or hate it, its tame and musical) has a continuously variable mode control LP/BP/HP
2 AR generators with Sustain
Ring Modulator
Sample/Hold
Onboard Preamp
White noise Gen
Keyboard Glide
Dupohonic (Ok, 2 note -Paraphonic?) Keyboard controller
Limited external 1/4" patching, semi-modular
It all fits in its own neat little box. The top half is the synth, bottom half, the keyboard"
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