Pete Cannon in Synth City (UK's Largest Collection of Synths)

Pete Cannon in Synth City (UK's Largest Collection of Synths) from Behind Closed Doors DVD Magazine on Vimeo.

Don't miss the elusive Thunderchild SZ3540 at 2:28. Apparently only two in existence. Followed by the MIMIC, E-Mu modular, EML Synkey patchcard synth, giant educational KORG MS20, Polysynthi, CLEF and more.

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"Here's Pete Cannon's full section from #BCD2!

Watch this video as Behind Closed Doors Vol.2 take Pete Cannon on a secret and surprise trip to the UK's largest collection of Synthesizers in Bristol. Synth-Nut Pete get's a tour from collection owner Andy Horrell and can hardly contain himself. Andy's collection has over 400 synths pre-dating 1984! This is what we call Synth City.

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Behind Closed Doors Vol.3 DVD (2012) is now available and features: !llmind, Khrysis, Househoes, Samiyam, Rhettmatic, J.Bizness, Aspect One, Kelakovski, Mr Thing, Myke Forte and more! www.louisden.com/bcd to find all the details, watch the trailer and order!"`

The PPG 1003 "Sonic Carrier" - World's First Programmable Synth?

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Be sure to see the video below.

"This was the first programmable synthesizer (1977)."

Programmable as in patch memory. The 1003 was a programmable monophonic synth with two oscillators, digitally controlled keyboard, and it was duophonic.

But was it the first?

Excerpts via Part 4 of the PPG Story:

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1978 EML SynKey Ad

via Retro Synth Ads, where you'll find the write-up.

1976 EML Synkey Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the full write-up.

EML Synkey 2001 Vintage Synthesizer

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SN 10750

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EML Synkey Syn-key vintage analog synth

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1976 EML SYNKEY SYNTHESIZER PRINT AD

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"Ad measures approx. 8"X 10.5" inches."

EML Syn-Key SynKey 2001 Programmable Synthesizer

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1976 EML SYNKEY SYNTHESIZER PRINT AD

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"Ad measures approx. 8"X 10.5" inches."

EML Synkey 2001

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EML Synkey 2001 - part 1

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"A short presentation of EML Synkey 2001 synth - part 1 (glide effect, stepless waveform selector, different modulation, stepless multimode filter, noise, ring tone)"

EML Synkey 2001 - part 2


"A short presentation of EML Synkey 2001 synth - part 2 (semitone chord system)"

EML Synkey 2001 - Close-Up

EML ELECTROCOMP 101 MODULAR SYNTHESIZER

YouTube via electricinsect1
".... Sorry for the poor video and sound quality. The growls sound much better standing in front of the mini Paia Pygmy amp. I know, its not that good... Not even breaking the surface. I just had to upload something. This setting reminded me of an EML Synkey my old roommate use to own. I hope to have time for a full demonstration soon. Waiting to get a better camera first. I haven't found to many videos that even begin to dissect the capabilities of this beast. More to come...."

EML SynKey

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"vintage (c. 1976) EML 2001 Syn-Key Programmable Synthesizer... Included with the synth is the orginal owners manual, a synth Primer published by EML, a full set of factory schematics and the original 50 punch cards for the card reader. (A few extra cards made it into my collection over the years, so there are a total of 67 punch cards.)... Original full-page magazine advertisement for the Sny-Key from 1976...

The Syn-Key was the world's first programmable synth."
Remember, you can search on Synkey for prior posts featuring this synth.

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The Only Synthesizer You Can Program

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1976 EML SynKey
Check out the patch card.
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EML Synkey

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"Vintage Electronic Music Lab (eml) SynKey 2001 synthesizer. The eml synkey is a 44 note (f-c) 3 1/2 octave, programmable analog synthesizer has a total of 13 oscillators!"

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EML Synkey

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EML Synkey OVATION

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"Rar, fancy: vintage EML Synkey vintage analog punch-card programmable synthesizer in recently adjusted; absolute top condition. It's the top rar: OVATION - version. Fully works and sounds incredible: The low-pass filter goes to high-pass filter and the band-pass in between and this is extremely effective. It has ringmodulator and some arpeggioator-like LFO-waveform varies due to the speed. It's unique and you can make some unpredictable polyphonic arpeggiations. Dealing with punch-card makes this machine very exotic! So maybe you bid on technically one of the best Synkey of the world! Pitty, it runs on American standard current 110 V , so there's a 220 V -adapter in need or comit me to do the modification for some extra (ca. 35-50EU depending on trafo)!"

"... these came out as early as in 1976, not 1978/79 as stated on most synth-sites out there. At least, this is what I was told by one of the founders/owners of the EML company - States Mikael. Thank you for the info! "

Update via the comments: "The Synkey service manual I have dates the individual drawings from about April 1974 to March 1975. 1976 therefore seems about right."