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Sunday, March 16, 2008
ARP Quadra
Update: Looks like this one already went up here on March 5 via a different seller. The Buy It Now note is obviously suspicious although the seller does have a number of positive ratings. As always be careful on the bay. Always purchase through Pay Pal with a credit card that will refund your money should the deal go south. Never give the seller your CC or any personally identifiable information. via this auction
"The Quadra is pretty much a hybrid version of the Omni II and the Solus synths. It's a four-section synthesizer consisting of a Bass synth, Poly synth, Lead synth, and String synth. It is quite good at emulating each of these sounds and can function in any of its four modes at a time with the ability of layering the different sections! Sounds you create in any of the four sections are instantly recalled from memory by the push of a button! There are 16 program patches for storing your sounds. Other major features are the incredible phase shifter, tons of balanced audio outputs for each section, dual portamento controls and a superior arpeggiator...that's pretty good for 1978! On the downside, it has a fragile mylar front panel, very limited programability and a weird feature that autotunes the keys to play weird intervals.
The Bass synth section is monophonic and can be programmed to occupy the lower two octaves of the Quadra's 5-octave 61-note keyboard. The bass sounds pretty good and has 16' and 8' presets each for Electric and String Bass sections.The string section is based on the Omni II String synth. It sounds excellent and implements a phase-shift effect that is sort-of like a chorusing effect that thickens its already great string sound. In Polyphonic synth mode there are more effects available such as sample-n-hold and the phase-shifter. String and Poly Synth sections have 8' and 4' Polyphonic Waveform Generators each along with a preset called Hollow Waveform.
In Lead synth mode the Quadra becomes a two voice screamer with aftertouch sensitivity in the upper octaves of the keyboard! It's duophonic (like the Odyssey). Get a bass sequence going, switch over to another section and play along! The Quadra is a synthesizer well suited to live performance use and has been used by 808 State, ELO, Genesis, The Human League, Pink Floyd, New order, Joe Zawinul, and film-maker John Carpenter. The 16 patches of memory aren't true memories, they simply recall which parameter sliders are active (and thus need adjusting!) and which are standards settings."
Yamaha TX81Z
via this auction"The Yamaha TX81Z was one of the most popular synth modules built in the late 80's due to the vast array of different sounds it can produce - it's a very flexible synth, adapt to many different music styles and genres. It is a typical late '80s Yamaha FM synthesizer, with powerful bass, cutting synths, and glassy electric pianos. One particular sound this module is famous for: "Lately Bass", which was used extensively during the mid 90s in a lot of rap, hip-hop and dance songs (i.e., on Madonna's "Vogue" ).
The TX81Z is a 4-Operator synth with quality and versatility you will enjoy. Worthy of notice is also the fact that you can control this module via breath controller (a few of the presets are already set up for this), adding even more expressivity to the sound.
There are many software editors available for the TX and DX series synths as are thousands of free patches."
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