Vintage Synth Repair

Throw my roland SPV-355 in the mix and you'll be
laughing hehe


--- dwcalifornia <music@...> wrote:

> Thanks, Scott!
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> I'll keep an eye out for a vocalizer.  
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> 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. . .
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> Michael C.
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> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Scott
> Nordlund <gsn10@...> wrote:
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> > You should be able to get a Breakaway Vocalizer
> 1000 for not a lot of money (under $75 
> 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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> > To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
> > From: music@...
> > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:53:22 -0700
> > Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Hello and
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> > I am new to this group.  I am a vocalist and
> keyboardist in the  
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> > Sacramento area of California.  Most of the
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> > voice -to-MIDI technology.  I just bought a Roland
> VP-70 and got it  
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> > get a functioning pitch-to-MIDI system, then start
> using it with live  
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> > looping to create full arrangements and sing over
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> > does anyone have any pearls of wisdom for me in
> this pursuit?  I've  
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> > heard that the Voicetracker is probably the best
> pitch-to-Midi device  
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> > pitch-to-MIDI devices that they have found
> successful using voice?
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