Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi!

I'll add some gear to the very interesting list... Korg's DSS-1 and 
Prophecy are pretty unique to, in my opinion. They're digital / 
analog hybrids with very cool features and very personal sounds. Ok, 
they're Korg, but they're not typical analog or VA synths. Oberheim 
Matrix serie is pretty cool, too. I had a Matrix 1000 and it was 
awesome.

Very similar to the Matrix is the Cheetah MS-6. Now, this is a sad 
history. I was working for a musical software / hardware distributor, 
and some guy in the company asked me if I could put one of his 
Cheetahs in Ebay, or something. The company used to sell Cheetahs 
years ago, but the product was of course outdated and there was no 
way to put them away except by Ebay or other second hand stores. He 
sended one Cheetah to me via mail so I could check if it worked ok, 
in order to put an auction for it. So I did, but nobody ever e-mailed 
me about the Cheetah. I had some time to play with it and it was 
very, very cool. In some sense it was a poor man's Oberheim Matrix, 
but it was a solid synth that sounded alright and at least was 
different from what everybody else was using. When I had to leave the 
company this guy asked me if I wanted to buy the Cheetah in order to 
keep it with me, and I was going thru bad financial times so I 
said "no". Later, they told me that, when he received back his 
Cheetah, he took this one and another 5 Cheetahs, and threw them to 
the trashcan. He could have told me that he planned to do that, and I 
have taked a train to get all his Cheetahs and give them a better 
life. He could have told anyone. But he just threw them away. 6 
Cheetahs, can you imagine if you ever find 6 synths in a trashcan, in 
an isolated street!? Even if they were Casios, for god's shake!!!

Adieu!

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Raj" <rajah_patel@y...> wrote:
> I have an Yamaha fs1r
> 
> I'm selling it. I'm gonna sample all the stuff i've done on it.
> 
> Yes formants is nice but its such a pain to program
> creating your on Formants via Fseq editor is also labourious
> Effects are very good. 3 insert one global i think
> 
> Yamaha should have supported it better. An OS update making LFO's 
midi sync'able would have been nice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Lud 
>   To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:20 PM
>   Subject: Re: [elektron] UNIQUE Hardware Synth?
> 
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   Yamaha FS1R.
>   Yes, it's Yamaha :} but the concept of "formants" used in this 
synth is
>   great. it creates very strange, unique sounds.
> 
> 
>   Lud - but I love my micro modular too :)
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