More technically correct, I am selling another of my vintage synthesizers, the venerable Kawai K3M. Rackmount, digital/analog (DCO/VCF/VCA), 6 voice polyphonic, MIDI, and almost as old as my wife. You can make fairly fat sounds with it, not as much as a true analog synth but fair for what it is. What it isn’t, these days, is fitting in with my concept of a micro-studio (of course, the Juno-6 I just got on loan doesn’t fit in with that concept either, but fuck it man, JUNO-6!!!!). It does have monophonic mode so all 6 voices (2 OSC per) can sound at once, thus fattening for fatty fatness, but Moog it ain’t. Part of this problem lies in the oscillators, none of which seem to be very simple oscillators (sine, tri, PWM/square) though some are close, and if you have the patience (I don’t) there is actually an editable waveform that you could probably tune to your simple form of choice.
The programming is actually easy if you know what you’re doing with a synth, no knobs (sans the pitiful volume knob) for easy tweaking, but each parameter has its own button, so there’s no menu hunting, but there is a lot of button pushing because each value has to be incremented or decremented via… yup, pushbuttons (holding them does work for speed-crementation). Tweaking for happy accidents is unlikely (does happen, you just still kinda have to know what you’re doing).
But… rack mount! So awesome! And after all these years, everything on it works like a charm (probably even the memory cartridge but I can’t test it, lacking one) and it’s ball-out gorgeous on the inside, and dust-free as shit. Like, amazingly clean in there. I opened it up expecting a nightmare and got a museum piece of electronics work instead. Hoo-fucking-ray for no fans!
srs pristine.
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