mjn@teddy.UUCP (03/24/86)
Excerts and Information from NAMM: Happy Days are Here Again, Jock Baird, Musician Magazine, April 1986 Sampling synths: --------------- 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: ----------- Roland, MKS-20 Rack mounted module Structured/Adaptive synthesis (anyone know about this? -mjn) Sounds: Steinway, Bosendorfer, Harpsichord, Clavinet, etc. Price: $1700 Digital Synths: -------------- 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: ------------ 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: ---- 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 -- Mark J. Norton {decvax,linus,wjh12,mit-eddie,cbosgd,masscomp}!genrad!panda!mjn mjn@sunspot