MATRIXSYNTH: Moog prototype SL-8 synthesiser


Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Moog prototype SL-8 synthesiser

flickr by Neil Vance
1983 - full size

You can find more info and another image here.

Update via Jared in the comments: "A nice first hand write-up of its development and how quickly it met its demise at NAMM can be found here."

Update: one more scan via Niel here. This one is a full article.

Update: another panel shot via Niel.

Update via rick in the comments:
"more pics here: Audities Foundation
its currently not on display."

4 comments:

  1. A nice first hand write-up of its development and how quickly it met its demise at NAMM can be found here:
    http://moogarchives.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9

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  2. Wow! And I was just thinking last night that I would do a blog post about the SL-8, if I could find any info on it. Prior to this, the only place I'd ever heard or seen of it was in Mark Vail's book.

    jared's link has a lot of the technical details. That "variable harmonic" thing looks interesting; I'll have to read that some more and see if I can figure out exactly what it did. Actually, with some updates, the SL-8 sounds like something that could sell today.

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  3. Wow, the DX-7 was great, but this was only going to be $500 more and had hands on control + split/layer...

    I guess we now know that there are many valuable types of synths, but I guess ppl thought VA/Analog style was dead...

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  4. more pics here: http://www.audities.org/audities/collection/archive/moog_sl8_a.html

    its currently not on display.

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