Vintage Synth Explorer

this little synth is very good for reproducing natural instrument sounds..especially bass..the bass sounds great on this. the filter isnt so great and there really isnt much of an ADSR section at all..which would have made this much more useful. but it is fun..good horn sounds..brass woodwind etc..and the modulation is pretty good. it has a very nice sounds..just very limited. i got one really cheap, so it was worth it for me. i have a lot of fun with it.

Actually I agree with Felip and Vudu12 - this is a steal if you can pick one up for cheap. Stuff you have control over: //
* Oct down, 2 oct down
* Resonance (slider)
* Cutoff frequency (slider)
* LFO rate and depth (sliders)
* LFO sine/square
* Route LFO to VCO pitch (on square at 100% depth it jumps octaves)
* Route LFO to VCA
* Portamento (slider)
* Portamento on/off
* Add sustain to the VCA (switch)
* The 'presets' give you actually quite usable combinations of VCA env, VCF env, VCF bp/lp, and VCF res/cutoff settings - instead of messing with the ADSR to get those settings you use all the time, you just flip a switch. //
If you spend a bit of time learning how to get the best out of this little guy, you have basically got yourself a ruling little single-VCO Moog! If you have some guitar effects to run it thru, you'll find some extremely evil noises ;-) //

I used one of these for several years in the 70's. It worked very well for me - I couldn't afford an Arp or Mini, and this little guy did the job. It was based on organ technology, for sure, but it had a surprising amount of flexibility, and I used it to good effect. I'd love to have one now! I think you're being too critical. For the money, it did a lot.

I got one a year ago and have used it tons, I find it great for bass despite other comments I have seen on it. I've used it for bass on about 15 tracks already. Its my $100 1974 moog sound bass machine, haven't used it for much else. Looks all beat up but cheaper than a mini!

I owned one of these back in the 70's, and only threw it away a few years ago. It had a great sound for a preset, but was notoriously unreliable, even though I only ever used it in a home studio. It used the same key contacts as my Thomas organ and I bought it from a Thomas dealership - I am pretty sure they manufactured them under licence from Moog. The key contact was made by a light wire for each key hitting a metal rail and therby completing the circuit. The slighest bit of dirt between the two and no sound! For those who have this problem, try pulling it apart and using a soft pencil eraser to clean the contacts. Strangely, I rarely had the same problem with the organ, even though it used the same method.