Elka Twin 61 + Alesis Quadraverb

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"The Elka Twin 61 is a rare Italian string/organ/bass keyboard, built in the early 1980s. Fully polyphonic strings, organ, and other sounds, with monophonic bass section. It has 2 separate sections (A and B) with identical features. The sections can be combined and mixed together to create a huge wall of sound. It sounds super lush and early 80s – unlike typical 70s string machines. It has a great CEM3320 based phaser built in.

In this video both A and B sections are used – Organ for the part A and full strings for part B."

Elka Twin 61 (1981) + Farfisa Syntorchestra (1975) Quick demo

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"Lovely Italian vintage synthesizers.

FX used: Alesis Quadraverb plate 2"

Farfisa Soundmaker Farfisa Soundmaker – strings + piano + saxophone + accordion + piccolo

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Playlist:

1. Farfisa Soundmaker – strings + piano + saxophone with aftertouch

Just a simple quick sound demo. The Farfisa Soundmaker is an Italian divider-based combo synthesizer released in 1979. It consists of three distinct synths, a monophonic synth, a polyphonic divider synth and a string synth. The monophonic synth is based on an M110 keyboard scanner/oscillator and a ca3080-based lowpass filter. The keyboard has a channel aftertouch that can be routed to LFO (Oscillator), mono brilliance, mono glide and brass brilliance.

Mono sounds are very delicate and expressive. Strings sound glorious.

Voices used:
Piano
Strings 8"
Saxophone mono preset in free mode

FX used:
Alesis Quadraverb
Valhalla Vintageverb
UAD Galaxy Tape Echo

Recording:
Recorded through Mackie Onyx 1620 Firewire mixer to Logic Pro

2. Farfisa Soundmaker – strings + piano + accordion

Voices used: Piano
Strings 8" and 4"
Accordion mono preset in free mode

FX used: same as above

3. Farfisa Soundmaker – strings + piano + piccolo

Voices used:
Piano
Strings 8"
Piccolo mono preset in free mode

FX used: same as above