Siel Cruise Demo

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"Available here: dbs-gear-bazaar Reverb"

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Up for sale is one of the best Siel analog synths. Poly section serviced calibrated and cleaned works perfect, mono section serviced and has only issue with one mono preset not tuned correctly (picollo) you can hear it on the video example from 5:30.

Thanks for looking.

The Siel Cruise is a really interesting instrument. It helped Siel branch out of the Organ building business and into synthesizers. Besides the Sequential Circuits Fugue version, the Cruise’s two sections were also available as separate synthesizers from Siel—the Orchestra and the Mono. The Cruise’s Poly section, the Orchestra, was also released in the USA by ARP as the Quartet. So there is plenty of this synth to go around under various names and forms out there. It is quite capable of some really nice Mellotron-like strings, a fair good piano, though the single-oscillator driven Mono synth is a bit slim due to being a single oscillator, but still quite capable of decent bass and lead sounds.
Polyphony - Monophonic / 49-note Polyphonic"

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Siel Cruise Vintage Italian Synth (aka Sequential Circuits Fugue)

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"Made in Italy, circa 1979.

I first came across this synth after hearing Adrian Utley of Portishead fame raving about it in the below YouTube video from 2008. It’s a lush poly synth and fat mono synth in one and sounds fabulous. The synth was used extensively on Portishead’s album Third (see “The Rip” and the John Carpenter-esque outro of “Machine Gun” in particular).

Totally nails Solina string ensemble as well as John Carpenter-esque sounds, but on top of that you have a bunch of great poly synth sounds and a tweakable monosynth with very fat sounding filters. (Add a dash of effects and this thing really comes alive.) The below AnalogAudio1 videos are great examples."

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Sequential Circuits Fugue

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Sequential Circuits Fugue

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Love the LEDs. Details on synthmuseum.com.

Update: I do not want to get into the habit of policing auctions, but as always be careful. The odd thing about this seller is zero feedback with the claim to having an old account with tons of positive feedback. Then why not use the old account with the positive feedback? On the other hand, all of the images for the sellers other auctions seem to have the same lighting, leading one to believe either he took them or he managed to find them somewhere. BTW, if you ever catch images from another location, please comment and I'll update the post.

Crumar Synergy

flickr by Neil Vance

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"32 partial oscillators FM additive"

Anyone know the relationship between Crumar and DK if any?

Update: I did a quick search here and found this post. The DK Synergy was based on the Crumar GDS. There is also reference to Crumar GDS on sequencer.de. It is interesting how different manufacturers overlapped. There were others. The Sequential Circuits Fugue for example was actually manufactured by Siel.

SIEL CRUISE vintage analog synthesizer

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"The Siel Cruise is a very interesting, great sounding and unusual machine. It's the combination of two Siel synthesizers in one: the Siel Mono (monophonic section) and the Siel Orchestra (polyphonic section). In those days this machine was so appealing that Sequential Circuits acquired its license to release their own re-branded and re-painted version of the Cruise known as the Sequential Fugue. The Poly section was also licensed to ARP, who released it under the name of ARP Quartet.

Interface : The Cruise is a masterpiece of vintage Italian design: beautiful to see, effective and very intuitive. The front panel has a lot of graphical information printed on it to clearly designate the Mono section functions from the Poly section features, as well as signal flow charts to help the user understand how the sounds are internally routed.

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Alkex Instruments Professor Prophet-5 MIDI Controller

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"You must already be familiar with the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 and it's legendary sound - if not, read the description below!

The is a beautiful custom midi controller hand crafted in the USA for virtual instrument users who have the sound, but need the feel of the Prophet5.

The will make you re-discover the virtual instrument that you already know and love. This is as close as you will get to the real thing!

All the fun in synthesizers lies in the ability to create your sounds with easy to reach controls.

This baby offers 27 knobs and 25 switches to play with!!!

It was designed for Arturia's PROPHET 5 software but can be re-mapped to any hardware or software emulation using the included patch management software ( OSX/PC/LINUX)

Specs:

-Midi Out
-Midi In (forwards incoming messages to save a midi port)
-Usb (to power the unit from a laptop/computer)
-9V in for supplied PSU
- Software (mac/pc/linux) to upload different midi setups to the unit
-Re-send button (updates all knob/switch positions after a patch change etc)

This machine is a labor of love and I stand by my work. I'll offer full support and be sure to have you up and running in no time"

Prophet 5 Midi Controller: Alkex instruments Professor playing Focus Carnival Fugue

YouTube Uploaded by alkexinstruments on Apr 16, 2011


Alkex Instruments PROFESSOR ProphetV Midi Controller playing Super Mario Bros Bowser Castle Theme

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With appologies to Rick Wakeman

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