MATRIXSYNTH-B: 08/10/13

AKAI AX73 6 VOICE POLYPHONIC VCO PROGRAMMABLE ANALOGUE SYNTHESIZER

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"A 73-note velocity sensitive keyboard

It has one oscillator (VCO) per voice and allows for 3 playing modes: Poly mode uses one VCO per voice for six voice polyphonic pads, chords and strings. Dual-VCO mode stacks 2 VCOs per voice for a thicker three-voice sound. Unison mode stacks all six VCOs onto one monophonic voice for a screamin' lead!

The AX73 has a simple 24 dB/oct VCF (filter) and it has an interesting feature that allows the cutoff to be modulated by the VCO. It also has a flexible LFO with many variable waveforms, chorus, portamento, and a standard ADSR VCA envelope generator. But unlike many other analog synths, this machine is MIDI equipped for easy integration and use in today's modern studios..."

Yamaha TQ5 FM Tone Generator / Synth / Sequencer with Original Box & RAM Card

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"The TQ5 is a FM Workstation in a keyboardless, sparsely decorated desktop unit. It takes after the line of FM synthesizers like the DX-100, DX-21, DX-11, TX81Z, and FB-01. These featured 4 FM operators per voice, and 8 voices of polyphony. And like the latter three, 8-parts multitimbrality was featured. The TQ5 also has easy "Quick Edit" keys to access some basic parameters for instant tweaks.The TQ5 is capable of many of the good sounds FM synthesizers made.

The TQ5 featured built-in digital effects and an 8-track sequencer (with 8 song capacity) rounding out the "workstation" aspect of this machine. Designed for use as a stand-alone FM workstation or as a MIDI module, the TQ5 was poised to bring high-end FM sounds to entry-level users."