[sdiy] siel mono

[John Henson]

I have just finished rebuilding a SIEL Orchestra 2 for a client, and I was
very impressed by the variety and quality of the sounds, not to mention it's
playability in a live scenario.
Despite what one web-site says about the sounds being mixable, they are not,
you select one of either Brass, Piano, Organ or strings at a time, but the
sliders associated with each section are very useful, and an equaliser which
can be switched in and out along with the chorus unit and the LFO make
drastic sound changes possible in a humble string machine. You could fool
most of the people most of the time into thinking you are playing an early
polysynth.
The faults, very dirty keyboard contacts, slider filth, and a dozen broken
tracks on the equaliser board which stopped the 4 left hand momentary
switches from doing their funky thing, and of course a lot of epoxy resin to
repair the almost all plastic chassis (a rare thing even in the synth
world).
This is not entirely a non sequitor, does anyone have any slider knobs or
inserts from a SIEL of this era, they are brown with a red insert, I just
feel it deserves it, I have photgraphed most of the endeavour if anyone is
interested. I just need one slider cap and 8 red inserts, which I might be
able to fab from... any suggestions!
Regards
John.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre Majorel" <aym-htnys at teaser.fr>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] siel mono


> On 2007-04-30 03:24 -0700, jo cool wrote:
>
> > Anyone know anything about the siel mono
>
> I have one.
>
> > I have one ,but sound output is becoming very erratic
> > and uncontrolable
>
> The schemos are online but could it be just an intermittent
> contact ?
>
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