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"The MS6 is a late '80s, 6-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer module from British company Cheetah.
Similar to the Oberheim Matrix-1000, like its American counterpart the MS6 offers a huge amount of preset and user voices. Sounds are broken down in five Preset and two User banks, and are grouped in categories such as Strings, Brass, Bass, Effects and so on.
This is a great-sounding, classic DCO analog synth: plenty of warm strings/pads, acid basses, excellent synth leads, and all kinds of special effects.
Moreover, the MS6 is multi-timbral, and features aftertouch, and is very responsive - that makes it a very expressive instrument for leads.
Update with SIX individual outs, one for each voice, so you can mix each voice to your liking. The original ms6 only has a stereo out so this is an amazing and powerful mod.
Also has been updated with the maad.net firmware upgrade which adds:
• Remote control of all tone edit parameters using CC messages, both in tone and performance mode
• Three more DCO shape settings, both for DCO A and B: off, pulse + triangle and pulse + sawtooth. The new pulse shapes can use PWM as well.
• Extended SysEx support: single patch and edit buffer dumps + requests, full dump and status requests.
• Mono mode, per-part, with a choice of always retriggering the envelopes or to not retrigger when playing legato (i.e. pressing a new key before releasing the current one).
• Portamento, per-part, constant-time (0.015 - 18.3 s) or constant-rate (400 - 0.44 semitones/s). Full-time or fingered (i.e., only in mono mode when playing legato).
• Support for bank 7 tones in performances.
• MIDI bank select (CC #0), globally and per-part.
• Program change per-part.
• No more partial drop-outs at bottom C (130.8Hz).
This basically turns it into a whole new synth, and can now be completely controlled from Ableton or a hands on midi controller."
Similar to the Oberheim Matrix-1000, like its American counterpart the MS6 offers a huge amount of preset and user voices. Sounds are broken down in five Preset and two User banks, and are grouped in categories such as Strings, Brass, Bass, Effects and so on.
This is a great-sounding, classic DCO analog synth: plenty of warm strings/pads, acid basses, excellent synth leads, and all kinds of special effects.
"This is the original all analog EWI that was based on Nyle Steiner's original Steinerphone design. The controller is entirely touch sensitive, and the module is pure analog. Includes a full bank of wind synth ready sounds. Everything is fully functional. This unit has a couple mods that may be of interest. The very hard to find proprietary cable was removed and replaced with a straight-through 15-Pin SVGA cable. This makes finding a replacement cable easy and inexpensive. Another mod that was done is that the two front panel ports, audio out and audio in, have been duplicated on the back panel. If you rack mount it, this makes keeping connecting cables out of the way on the front. Included with the unit are the original owner's manuals, as well as a small library of programming tips and tricks. Send me your email, and I can send you for no additional cost a PDF of the full service manual as well. Also included are the factory rack ears and attachment screws."
