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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Roland Juno-106

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"The Juno-106 is a six voice polyphonic and programmable analog synth with one digitally controlled oscillator per voice. Complete Six-voice Synthesizer, 6 VCF’s, 6 VCA’s and 6 ENVELOPE’S (ADSR). Digitally Controlled Oscillator's (DCO) guarantees extremely stable pitch.

A Portamento Function. Chorus effect produces rich, expansive sounds. Transposes To Any Key! by simply pushing a “Transpose” button, plus desired key. Foot Control of Patch Shift. (One Patch is Advanced for Each Depression.) and Pedal Hold.

Memory capacity retains up to 128 different patch programs. Battery backup system retains programs when keyboard is switched off.

There is an excellent 24dB/oct analog lowpass filter with plenty of resonance and self-oscillating possibilities and a non-resonant highpass filter.

The programmable pitch/mod bender can control the DCO pitch, VCF cutoff, and LFO amount, all at once, or individually.

This synth is very straight-forward and very powerful. Use it to generate lush pads, filter sweeps, and funky bass lines and leads.

It’s one of the most loved and used synthesizers by professionals and hobbyists alike."


RedSound DarkStar

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"here’s a quote from a synthesizer website: 'Made by British company Red Sound, the Darkstar is a table-top 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer. Analog sounds are created by DSP-based analog modelling which means you'll get reliable and clean analog-type synth sounds. The Darkstar features 2 oscillators per voice, 5-part multitimbral set-up, joystick mixing for oscillators, ring modulation, filter resonance and pink/white/blue noise generators. Its unique look is modeled after RSS's other DJ tools. There are 14 knobs, all of which transmit MIDI data and provide instant hands-on access to the filters and envelopes. The two LFOs and two envelope generators provide plenty of modulation abilities for the oscillators, pulse-width and filter. The filter offers high-, low- and band-Pass filtering with a 12dB/oct slope. It's fairly flexible since both the cutoff and resonance can be modulated by either LFO and EG for a wide range of filter-sweeping effects.'" Anyone know the site?