Vintage Synth Repair

Thanks, Scott!

I'll keep an eye out for a vocalizer.  

I've got a Roland VP-70, and some singing friends and I had a lot of fun with it tonight.  
our soprano was singing an awesome fretless bass part, and the bass and i were singing 
saxophone.  Now if i could just get three more of these things. . .

Michael C.

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Scott Nordlund <gsn10@...> wrote:
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or so).  They occasionally come up on ebay.  I can't speak for how well they work, but it 
should be a reasonable introduction without much financial risk.  Incidentally, they use 
the same Ensoniq DOC chip as found in the Mirage and ESQ-1/SQ-80, as well as the 
Apple IIGS.
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> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:53:22 -0700
> Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Hello and voice-to-MIDI
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> I am new to this group.  I am a vocalist and keyboardist in the  
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