"As it turns out Chris [Muir] worked on the design and manufacture of the SMS synths back in the day, and this was his personal system. Nowadays it gets a little bit neglected in favour of the Buchla, but it sure looked pretty. SMS's most successful product was the Voice 400, pictured at the bottom."
If you are not familiar with the Mungo Enterprises State Zero synthesizer, see the Mungo label at the bottom of this post. Update: this synth was announced around Winter NAMM 2010 and had an estimated street price of $12,000. http://mungo.com.au/
A characteristic sound of the State Zero synthesiser, a symphony of PWM and sawtooth symmetry modulation spread across the stereo field by 4 envelopes and 2 LFOs cross modulating many many parameters.
Mungo Enterprises - SyncZ
Uploaded by MungoEnterprises on Aug 14, 2011
"Demonstration of SyncZ device. Sequence of events:
1. Sync to RM1x Master
2. Start TR606 slave
3. Stop RM1x Master
4. Restart RM1x Master
5. Stop and unplug TR606 slave
6. Start Cubase Slave
7. Stop and Restart RM1x Master
8. Stop Cubase Slave
9. Restart Cubase Slave
10. Stop and power off RM1x Master
Now its possible to start and stop both the slave and master in a midi stream. The impossible made possible by Mungo Enterprises."
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