mjn@teddy.UUCP (03/24/86)
Excerts and Information from NAMM: Happy Days are Here Again, Jock Baird,
Musician Magazine, April 1986
Sampling synths:
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Sequential Circuits, Prophet 2000 and 2002
12 bit sample
4 pole low-pass VCF, VCA, velo controled 4 stage envelopes
8 voice, 16 samples on line at once, MIDI Mode 4 (Omni-off/Mono)
Stereo, can load directly from CD's
Memory upgrade to 512K (36 seconds of sample)
Keyboard version: $2600 (2000)
Rack version: $2300 (2002)
Korg, DSS-1
12 bit sample
Keyboard version: $2000
Roland, S-50 (sound a like a data bus -mjn)
12 bit sample
16 wave oscillators
48 evelope generators
512K memory, 17.2 seconds of sample at 32KHz.
Video monitor output for visual editing
Casio, SK-1
Chicklet keyboard, no MIDI
Price: $99 (For a sampling synthesizer???? -mjn)
Yamaha, VSS-100
FM presets, drums
8 seconds of sampling
Samples can be mixed with FM presets
Price: $230
Piano Boxes:
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Roland, MKS-20
Rack mounted module
Structured/Adaptive synthesis (anyone know about this? -mjn)
Sounds: Steinway, Bosendorfer, Harpsichord, Clavinet, etc.
Price: $1700
Digital Synths:
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Ensoniq, ESQ-1
3 digial osc. on each of 8 voices
8 track sequencer, 10K notes
80 character display, 32 waveforms, velocity sensitive
Price: $1295
Sequential Circuits, VS
Vector synthesis, 4 osc. on each of 8 voices.
128 waveforms, stereo panning, chorus, voice osc. mixing
200 programs, velocity sensitive
Price: $2600
Roland, JX-10
Roughly two JX8P's, digital/analog hybrid
24 DCO's for twelve voices, analog filtering
Small sequencer
MIDI Guitars:
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Kramer, IVL Pitchrider 7000
Pickup strip retrofit for guitars
Pitch transpose, separate string assignment
Octave shift, pitchbending, unkown tracking speed.
Price: $1000
K-Muse, Photon Guitar
Prototype demonstrated using Infared reading system
16 bit frequency convertion at 10KHz,
Uses own transmission net (M-NET) 16 times faster than MIDI
96 channels, handles SMPTE, MIDI interface capability.
Price: $2000 Available: April
Misc:
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Yamaha, SPX90 Multiple Effects Generator
Reverb, early reflections, delay, chorus, stereo flange
pitch change, gate reverb, ADR noise gate, auto pan,
digital parametric equations
39 programs in ROM, 60 in RAM, MIDI IN, THRU
Price: $700
Linn Electronics, MIDIstudio
Splits Linn 9000 into remote pad/control module and mixer/disk drive
32 track sequencer, drum sampling
Sample time at 32KHz is 10 sec, dividable among 16 voices
Drums sounds can be loaded from disk, SMPTE option
Price: $6000
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Mark J. Norton
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