Interesting. I've heard about these things, but this is the first time I've ever actually seen any. I'm guessing that the four pots on the keyboard interface module are perhaps coarse tune, fine tune, scale, and glide, based on the interface in the EML 101. (However, the 101 doesn't have a coarse tune in the keyboard interface.) If it's the same basic circuit as the 101, then it interfaces to an EML duophonic keyboard with Pratt-Read mechanicals. The circuit is rather trick and you have to know what you're doing to interface a non-EML keyboard to it. Also, if it's like most EML stuff, the output is scaled normally to 1.2 V/octave. The VCO is interesting to me because of the two DIP ICs (741s probably). My 101 was built without any DIP-packaged ICs -- all the ICs in it are in metal cans. I'm a bit curious as to what all those switches are for -- waveform selection? One of those metal can ICs is likely to be a uA726, which is a very valuable part. The ADSR caught my attention too. It must have been a more recent design, because the 101 doesn't have ADSR envelopes -- only ADS or ASR, depending on a switch selection. Incidentally, those pots aren't particularly rare or valuable, nor can they be easily fitted to a 101, because all of the 101's pots are panel mount. And finally, my guess is that the mystery boards are VCAs. The one with the gray caps looks to be a later revision. It would be great if they were copies of the fancy VCA from the 101, which has both two-quadrant and four-quadrant inputs, but they don't look "busy" enough to be that.
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Re: [emlsynth] Wild EML modules + parts on eBay
2006-05-18 by David Cornutt
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