via ben:"I did a little 'sketch' on my EMS polysynthi yesterday and thought you might like to hear it. The polysynthi as you probably know is a very unusual synth:
a] its the only british polysynth [as far as I know]
b] its the first ever synth with built in delay [voltage controlled - very cool]
c] only about 30 were made
d] all the knobs are backwards [they go from 10 to 0 anti-clockwise]
e] it has an odd form of after touch whereby the whole keyboard pivots
down and sends out a CV
f] it looks like something out of playschool
g] its the hardest synth I have ever tried to fathom
actually, its a very limited synth because it uses divide-down technology [a bit like the polymoog] but I like it's quirkiness and put through the lexicon 224 [which came out the same year - 1978] it makes quite a racket"
Title link takes you to the sample. Thanks ben!
i think it sounded kind of cool but that may be due to the reverb... pity that the recording had distortion in the reverb input tho.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have links to better photos of this?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, but as anon1 was saying, it's harder to judge with the reverb.
ReplyDeleteI found a picture using this site called goggle:
http://www.keyboardsrecording.fr/IMG/k36-130.gif
Off the top of my head the Cheetah MS6 is a British analog polysynth. Of course the Novation has virtuals too.
ReplyDeletecool post. I'm pretty sure I saw one of these at Vince Clarke old studio in Amsterdam..
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear a dry sample of the Polysynthi, this sample (as cool as it may be) says very little about the sound of the synth.
ReplyDeletefx does 500% of the sound in that mp3
ReplyDeletei ve used one years ago, and it sounds like a bad organ stuff, but with a thin/agressive tone, very strange
it s so bad it could become interesting ....
i agree douchemole, thats why i put the reverb on ;-)
ReplyDeleteit is an 'interesting' synth as i said in the blurb, but infuriating
at the same time. i will try and record something later thats pure
polysynthi
ps, the world of next tuesday, i stand corrected. but it was the
first? [maybe the digisound modular?]
ben
haha douchemole
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