[sdiy] An interesting 4 voice SCI pro one...

[Michael Bacich]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, JH. wrote:

> OB-8 does this. Not with a rotary switch, but with 8 individual  
> Buttons on
> "Page 2".
> Very useful. And not for monophonic playing only.
> Sometimes you want 2 or 3 voices, but the envelopes re-starting at a
> well-defined point,
> depending on when the key assigned to this voice has been released.  
> It's a
> bil like having
> 2 or 3 monosynths under your fingers. (For traditional polyphonic  
> playing,
> you want as
> many voices as possible of course; but not always.)
>
> JH. (am I in OB-8 advertising mood today?)

Go right ahead and advertise all you want, Juergen.  The OB-8 is  
still one of the finest synthesizers ever made.  They pretty much got  
everything right.  It was designed (mostly) by Marcus Ryle and Michel  
Diodic, who were very young engineers at the time.  They later went  
on to design the Alesis ADAT and many other groundbreaking products,  
then later started the Line6 company.