[sdiy] Holy onslaught of VCS diy...

[Fdi]

I think the matrix, the joystick and the keyboard-sequencer with pressure CV
out, made the VCS3 (the Putney) and AKS (and the 100) very expressive
instruments. (This said for pop/rock use as for electroacoustic music
composition, both live or in the studio)
Also they had two utputs, two inputs and an out for the oscilloscope!
I preffer 4 or 6 VCS3s or AKSs much more than a 100.
Also their Pitch-to-CV was great. May be not ultra precise but very
versatile. And the vocoder2000 was wonderful too. It also had a matrix.
All EMS gear was designed with the electroacoustic music lab in mind. That's
why there was a 100 at the BBC radio.

For educational pourposes they were great too. Well, the best for that
pourpose. That is because of the matrix.

They looked very sexy too. The AKS on it's suitcase, wow! Or the VCS3 on
it's wooden cabinet, it was quite ergonomic.

So, more than it's specific sound, I think that they were brilliant because
they were conceived as a very compact electroacoustic lab.

Fernando
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> De: Glen <mclilith at charter.net>
> Fecha: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:56:04 -0400
> Para: harrybissell <harrybissell at prodigy.net>, john mahoney
> <jmahoney at gate.net>
> CC: Tim Parkhurst <tparkhurst at siliconbandwidth.com>,
> synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Asunto: Re: [sdiy] Holy onslaught of VCS diy...
>
> At 11:35 PM 9/17/03 , harrybissell wrote:
>
>> Personally I have a sort of 'yeah... so' attitude to most of the features
of
>> the VCS synths.  Maybe because I was exposed more to ARP and MOOG on the
>> east coast of the USA at that time...
>>
>> Now I can join you in the flaming, as everyone yells about the special
>> 'features' of the VCS line....
>>
>> <flamesuit on>
>
> I guess this makes three of us in the line of fire.  :)
>
> Once upon a time, I was familiar with the names of Akai, Arp, Buchla,
Casio
> (I'm afraid), Emu, Ensoniq, Fairlight, "Fender's" Chroma Polaris, Gleeman,
> Korg, Kurzweil, Moog,  Oberheim, Roland, Serge, Sequential, Synclavier,
> Voyetra, and Yamaha. I had even heard of (and lusted after) Kinetic
Sound's
> PRisM, of which only two units were ever made, and only one of which was
> ever sold. I believe it had a retail price well over $100,000--might
> explain the low sales.  :)
>
> Anyway, I was aware of all these brands, and had even professionally
> repaired products from several of them. It wasn't till much later, that I
> looked at the credits on a Pink Floyd album and it mentioned a VCS. I
> wondered "What the heck is that?" It seems that they were probably the
last
> synth company that I learned about from that era. Why did it take so long
> for me to hear anything about them?
>
> To this day, I still don't properly know what is so special about them.
> Maybe someone can "enlighten" me?  :)
>
>
> later,
> Glen Berry
>
>
>
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