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Electronic Music Studios EMS VCS3

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"A vintage EMS VCS3 Putney synthesizer.

One owner since 1976

Full Synthology on request.

It is featured on recordings by Here & Now, Planet Gong, The Entire Cosmos, Satan's Mates, ATV & others.

This Synth has had 15 years of hard roadwork and bears the scars.
If you would like to hear this one playing (do you actually play a VCS3 or twidle knobs?) please go to www.youtube.com and type in Fantasy Shift, and look for the tracks 'Ways to be Free' or 'Secrets'."

Roland SH-101

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Ensoniq Fizmo

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If you ever consider picking up a Fizmo, be sure to read The Fizmo Fix.

The Ensoniq Fizmo is a transwave synth, similar to a wavetable synth. Rather than a set waveshape for it's oscillators, you can sweep through various waveshapes via the available modulations sources.

"Specifications
* Polyphony - 48 voices
* Oscillators - 4 MB of 16-bit internal wave ROM, featuring Transwaves (created through digital synthesis and resynthesis technologies); 2 osc for each of 4 presets - total of 8 simultaneous - 58 waveforms
* LFO - 8 LFO's (7 waveform choices, can sync to Arpeggiator or external MIDI clock)
* Filter - Resonant LP & BP 4 pole filters. Non-Resonant 2LP+2HP, 3LP+1HP, 2LP+2LP, 3LP+1HP filters.
* Effects - 41 digital VLSI 24-bit effects (8 Global Reverbs, Chorus, Flanger, DDL, Distortion, Tunable Speaker, Chatter Box, Vocal Morph, Auto-Wah, Vocoder); Processes incoming audio
* Keyboard - 61 semi-weighted keys (velocity and channel pressure sensitive, 4 programmable key ranges, 4 possible zones)
* Memory - 128 ROM sounds, Up to 128 RAM, 64 Presets
* Control - MIDI (up to 4 polyphonic channels)
* Date Produced - 1998"