via Reed:
"After eleven years of not using enough SEM's in our tracks because the 4-voice was all the way across the room, my business partner decided to rack mount 2 of the voices.
The first challenge was finding a big enough box. Two SEM's side by side are wider than most standard rack boxes will accomodate. When Greg St. Regis built the Obie Rack at Studio Electronics, he opted to cut part of the sides off the actual SEM faceplates to make things fit. Since we want to keep the option of mounting the SEM's back into the 4-voice, we decided to pay a few hundred bucks to have a company build a custom steel box.
As you can see in the picture, Phil took the power supply from the 4-voice & carefully mounted it to the new chassis, putting the big transistors on the outside of the case. He then literally screwed an MPU-101 in there for Midi. At a moment's notice the whole thing could be restored to its original condition as though nothing ever happened.
There are no extra bells and whistles on the front panel. You tend to get the sound you want out of an SEM without any extra patch points or toggle switches. Bravo to Mr. Oberheim for getting it right the first time."
Official product pages:
Alex: "I had a go on a demo one today - feels really solid, and does everything it says on the tin."
via Reed:
via this auction. Note the box design is similar to the Yamaha CX5M.
images via this auction
"I've had the Yamaha Tenori On for about five days now, so these are first thoughts. Summary version: It's awesome that this thing exists, that Toshio Iwai got a chance to make it. It's intuitive (in the pic on the right, Alex isn't just jabbing buttons, he's holding down a function key and selecting sounds). Does that mean you'll want to spend £599 buying one for yourself? Well, I can think of better ways to spend the money. Epic list of pros and cons after the jump." click here for the full review.
