OBERHEIM SYNTH

> 
> Well, the Systemizer was basically an XK without the keyboard.

Possibly, but the Xk has no midi in port.


> 
> The XK was a MIDI controller that did some rather nice stuff. It was
> originally designed as the controller for the Oberheim 
> Xpander, but MIDI
> being what it is it worked with all kinds of keyboards.
> 

Now see, when I bought mine, the sales guy said it was the "other half" of
the Matrix 6R and had come out at the same time.

Figures.


> It was quite light -- it was very shallow, with a two space 
> LED display and
> not much else on the case except some buttons to program it. 
> It had, IIRC,
> 76 keys and the obligatory two wheels.

tut,tut!!
No wheels, champ!!
Oberheim didn't transact wheels!  Wheels were for dinosaur Moogs and Moog
wannabes.  Oberheim had those incredibly cool LEVERS (that I still prefer to
most others).  

61 notes, only.

> The systemizer is a combination of the 
> wonderful key
> mapping options of the XK along with some additional 
> functions. I used one
> live for a while to very good effect. What I wanted was a 
> Systemizer with
> two MIDI in ports and 4 MIDI out ports, as my rig got too big 
> to just use 16
> MIDI channels. 

The Xk *did* have cool mapping features.  Way ahead of its time, IIRC.  3
zones

I still use one.

L.