The Vintage Keys is a digital rackmount synthesizer that emulates the sounds of classic vintage synths. It is also one of the first cool sound modules with good samples of vintage synth sounds. Just like the classics it has portamento, a VCF filter and a chorus effect. It has a lot of modulation capabilities which are all real-time and MIDI controllable. It has the typical brittle digital sound module sound qualities, but it makes nice pads, punchy bass and cool filter swept leads and works great for background synth sounds. It is used by Hardfloor, The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, Meat Beat Manifesto, Goldie, Olive, Faithless, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size, Future Sound of London, Depeche Mode, Laurent Garnier, Yesterdays and The Shamen.

14 VISITOR COMMENTS

mike

July 20, 2011 @ 9:36 pm

beatlefan I'm interested in purchasing this. How much?

BeatleFan

June 25, 2011 @ 9:57 pm

This is a cool little synth....I've got one for sale if anybody wants it.

Shrunken Head

January 10, 2011 @ 4:59 pm

Mister Littlejeans,
I just reset the factory presets this evening. Follow the steps below. From http://www.emulatorarchive.com/ModuleOverview/ModVintageKeys /modvintagekeys.html

To enter diagnostics mode, power on with both cursor keys held down. There are 13 modes, which test out all the various components inside the module.

To re-initialize your module, if it locks up, scroll down until you get to the "initialize" option. Hit enter and you will wipe out your user-definable patches and reset the module back to its factory state. Beware! Save your patches first!

Robert J

December 14, 2010 @ 2:10 pm

I also recently purchased one used, but oddly I get no sound whatsoever from the outs or the headphones. I have done an initialize and it shows the instruments on teh screen. Its like its on a hidden mute.

Help is appreciated.

mister_littlejeans

November 30, 2010 @ 5:37 pm

If anyone here owns one of these, I need your help: I recently purchased one off eBay and cannot for the life of me figure out how to find the factory presets. I can only access 127 VERY mediocre sounds and that's it...there's nothing else! None of the ROM or RAM presets that the manual talks about are anywhere to be found. Have I purchased a module that had all its glorious sounds erased? Is this even possible?

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