[sdiy] RE: [AH] TRANSCENDENT 2000?

[Chris Crosskey]

There are NO CEM's in a T2K...it's completely discrete design and
everythingis still available....the Polysynth was CEM though...

chrisc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sevo Stille [mailto:sevo at radiox.de]
> Sent: 28 September 2001 14:58
> To: steve thomas
> Cc: analogue at hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [AH] TRANSCENDENT 2000?
> 
> 
> steve thomas wrote:
> > 
> > I think the transcendent 2000  was one of Tim Orr's (famous analogue
> > designer who worked at EMS) designs?
> 
> Yes. However, bear in mind that it was designed for easy kit
> construction and catering for a market into something pretty 
> basic. Tim
> Orr made a very good job of that, the kit synths seem to have mostly
> been put together successfully - the ones I've seen so far did not all
> sound nice, but all of them worked, while more than half the Formant
> synths I've seen so far were broken due to faulty assembly or poor
> components, or weren't ever completed. 
> 
> That is, if you are looking for any of the things in there 
> that made Tim
> Orr's work at EMS famous, you should get an EMS. The Transcendent is
> somewhere in between Pro-One and MG-1 in specs and features, with a
> rather flat filter. The factory assembled ones may sound 
> better than the
> kit ones I saw, but even a perfect model would only be a 
> straight small
> CEM-based monosynth without unique features.
> 
> Sevo
> 

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