gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor) (07/16/84)
Hi. Got some Electronic Music stuff for sale, in case any of you are interested: Korg MS-20 synthesizer. We sell this because we have two of them, and are striving to simplify. I am very fond of this machine, though it is not one of those micro-controlled polyphonic whizzes that the market favours of late. It's a 2 oscillator, 2 envelope generator (1 adsr, 1 ar) 2 filter (hp and lp with variable resonance) 37 note kbd. baby with a frequency to voltage converter (for your voice, your guitar, your saxophone), sample and hold, and complete patchability for everything. A very steady, no frills type of basic machine for the more academically inclined synthesist. If you want a machine for your next bar band gig that will *sound* like a synthesizer, pass this up. If you have the urge to play Brian Eno and process the sound of the Firesiren outside your apartment window, this is for you. Roland TR-808 Drum synthesizer. Again, a nice steady, intermediate bit of technology. The analog cymbals are really very good, and it has enough memory for seven of me (too much, in fact-now that I'm using digital delay treated tape loops, I'm not even using drums at all). Especially nice for programming very long, odd meter sequences, and messing with rather intricate gating voltages for your synthesizer. We should talk about whether you really need something like this or not. Casio MT-220. THis dates from the days before Casio put Horoscope calculators and drumboxes and heaven knows what other bells and whistles on their keyboards. 51 keys, all of which double as preset key selectors, 4 memories and vibrato. With a chorus on the out line, this really covers a wide amount of territory. I've fooled the daylights out of most of my multikeyboard pals with a real minimum of treating, and the presets really do offer a fair range of useful timbres (since the keyboard is digital, the bell and plucked type timbres are pretty good). I've loaded this listing with caveats. Fact is, I'd really like to sell some of this stuff...but not at the risk of unloading it on somebody who doesn't need it or wouldn't be able to use it. Being a poor person, I've tried to make do with as much "low-tech" stuff as was possible. These are all in that category, and as such I strongly favour their use over much more expensive stuff in terms of "bang for the buck." Drop me a line if you're interested in purchasing any of this. We can talk about it.