In the beginning of the 80's Kawai began manufacturing synthesizers under the company name of Teisco. Their early designs resulted in synths like the S110F above. The Synthesizer 110F is an upgraded S60-F, with dual analog VCO's and an updated look. It has a small but usable 37 note keyboard. Classic analog sawtooth, square, and triangle waveforms plus noise are on-board and can be mixed with external sounds run through the 110F's filters and envelopes. The oscillators can be de-tuned for duophonic textures or phatter leads and bass sounds.

There's plenty of modulation ability and classic analog effects in the 110F to really liven up the sound. There's an LFO which can modulate the VCO and VCF and can trigger the EGs. The VCF resonant low pass filter is great too. There's also a VCA section with Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release controls and finally there's a Hi-Pass filter. There is also a portamento effect, a ring modulator, vibrato and sample-and-hold for those classic analog synth effects and tricks! Lots of pretty blinking lights, a sleek and straight-forward layout and very nice analog bass, lead and synth sounds are all a part of the Synthesizer 110F experience.

4 bit rev

May 9, 2010 @ 6:15 am

Very very underestimated synthesizer with an unique sounding filterbank usually found only on modulars.
Nice and thick VCOs with ringod and a neat signalflow indicatorsystem with LEDs allover the panel.
i'll have a 110F one before a MS-20 or a Pro One anyday

Peter

May 11, 2009 @ 4:59 pm

I love this synth! It is really a shame that it is in the shadow of synths like MS-20 and Peo-ONE - this is a better synth, but allmost forgotten. Much better! Very versatile - nice fx and lovely drums and percussions - but the basses... The bass-sounds of this synth is only beaten by the OSCar...

MartinL

April 2, 2009 @ 5:42 am

I try 110F after 1985 ( friend composer )
a good synthetiser .Like Roland juno 106 or sh101
I like fader very quickly for built sounds.
Small sounds very funny with release .
Good for solo et bass. Monophonic & small keybord.
This analogic synthetiser are simple very fun...I like.
Sorry for my bad english! bye!...

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