[sdiy] siel mono

[Bob Weigel]

John,
I have what appears to be the same unit; the Sequential Prelude.  On it, 
the sounds are mixable.  You can get a great funky organ by mixing brass 
and organ. Perhaps this is the source of confusion.  Perhaps Siel's 
version didn't enable that feature and SCI's did!  If so I'd love to 
know for sure.  To enable two sounds on it you just press two select 
buttons at a time as I recall.

You do know how to fix that broken board I assume? I don't have any 
parts extra for those things.  It has the round knobs as I recall.   
Mine is downstairs waiting for a day when I can put new capacitors in.  
The decay times have drifted substantially on some notes.  1 sec to 5 
sec decay time variations for instance on a given setting. -Bob

John Henson wrote:

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