[sdiy] siel mono

[Jason Proctor]

hmm weird. every Siel Orchestra i played, 
including the ARP Quartet which is kinda a 
re-badged version with different organ section 
voicing, had mixable sections. you simply press 
the section buttons simultaneously.


>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
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>I have one.
>>>
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>>>>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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