MATRIXSYNTH: EML-200


Wednesday, February 14, 2007

EML-200


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Details:
"A very old-school semi-modular synthesizer expander module designed as an expander to complement the EML 100 and EML 101. It's monophonic with dual oscillators for a fatter tone. Truly an old school instrument which is as old as 1969! It's not too pretty (they can be found in either blue or silver) but nicely designed and laid out. There are 31 knobs and over 60 patch points! With a little patching, even people new to analog synths will be able to start getting sounds out of the 200. Some additional features include two ring modulators and a spring reverb.

Note however that the EML 200 was designed as an Expander module to interface directly with other EML synthesizers. Today, you can use it with analog synths other than EML with the properly modified CV/Gate connections and converters (its oscillators are a non-standard 1.20v/oct). More valuable today as a collectors item rather than a piece of studio kit.

The Electrocomp 200 is a 2-VCO monophonic synthesizer expander module. It did not come with a keyboard but as an expansion module for the 100 or the 101, which included a keyboard. The Electrocomp 200 features two VCOs, which have outputs for sine, triangle, and pulse waveforms, and a noise source. There is a spring reverb, a low-pass VCF, a high-pass VCF, an ADS envelope generator, a ring modulator, a mic preamp, and a dual 3-channel stereo mixer.

The eml-200 came in 2 colors, blue and silver. The later ones were silver and the original ones were blue. The blue 200s were also built into larger cases and were a bit heavier than the more recent silver ones."

4 comments:

  1. I'm listening to Laurie Spiegel's Electrocomp cuts from "Obsolete Systems" and sleet is hitting the windows outside.

    Trippy.

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  2. I don't think it actually contains a high or lowpass *VCF* since, as far as I know, the filters aren't actually voltage controlled. MCF (manually controlled filter) anyone?

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  3. The filters don't have resonance either. :(

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  4. Well since it's a semi-modular you can always just try to patch the resonance. How good that sounds is another story. No idea myself.

    But there's no getting around neither filter is a VCF unless you can devise a hardware mod adding a vactoral or something

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