[sdiy] Siel LX series... really exist ?

[Bob Weigel]

OH  aaohhhh! OHhhhhhhhhhhh!  :-)

Seriously Scott...I'm going to have to do a 'Siel symphony' just for 
that.  Hehe. 

Some overlooked 'nuggets' are

1) The Siel Mono is not a bad sounding monosynth for the cheap thing it 
was I've heard.  No 1st hand exp. though.

2) The Siel Orchestra/ARP Quartet and Siel OR-400/SCI Prelude/Orchestra 
II really for their day were one of the better sounding analog piano 
sounds I think and the mix on the later model with Organ and brass is a 
very cool sound with the ability to EQ and flange it etc.  Fun little 
units really and some good quality sounds for the technology.  The 
interconnects suck but as long as you change them to flexible ones hey 
they're not bad reliability wise again for what they are.  Standard 
parts inside pretty much.

3) The DK600/opera 6 while problematic once the battery spills really 
have their own realm of dominance.  Rarely a problem on the analog 
board.  A 100% analog synth that says "DCO" because it had divide down 
from two analog oscillators like I said recently in the wiki thing.  But 
you can really pull some rich sounds out of it.  And the DK70 and 80 
while paraphonic also do some decent sounds.  I am going to do a siel 
symphony  You have thrown down the gauntlet of shame!  :-) I must. hehe. 
  SAVE THE SIELS! :-) -Bob

Scott Nordlund wrote:

>Well, all their products were "bad or zero" in one way or another.  
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>(and I say this as the owner of a DK 600, Expander, MDP-40, ARP Quartet and Keytek CTS-2000).
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>>Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:39:17 +0100
>>From: damsagain at free.fr
>>To: dragon.servicing at googlemail.com
>>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Siel LX series... really exist ?
>>CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
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>>Peter,
>>Thank you !
>>The flying serie you said... hum...
>>I don't know it either but there is some documentation on the web.
>>I am surprise Siel don't mention it nowhere. However they built and sold Flying
>>and LX ! Would they ashamed cause thoses products were bad or zero ? Strange,
>>isn't it ?
>>:-/
>>
>>cheers,
>>Damien
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>>Selon dragons :
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>>>Hi,
>>>firstly happy new year to you all.
>>>I think the LX-61 and LX49 have some resemblance to the flying 49 and
>>>flying 61.
>>>as far as I know the Flying 49 uses a sgs ic for the tone generation,
>>>and is sort of like a portable home organ. various stops allow different
>>>sounds to be available.
>>>one of the the only reference(s) to the Lx-49 is at
>>>
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>>http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Keyboard+And+MIDI/product/Siel/LX.49/100/1
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>>>regards Peter
>>>
>>>damsagain at free.fr wrote:
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>>>>Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>>I wish you a happy new year !
>>>>
>>>>I have a Problem to share :
>>>>I can't find any documentation about Siel LX series (LX-61 or LX-49).
>>>>
>>>>Even the official Siel Website don't mention them, but I am shure that
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>>>exists !
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>>>>I am not crazy (I hope...)
>>>>
>>>>Have you heard about those two models ? (Analog or not ? Marketing year ?
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>>>etc.)
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>>>>Could a Siel LX-61 be compared to a Siel Orchestra or an Opera6 or a DK-600
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>>>?
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>>>>Thank you for your answers.
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Damien.
>>>>;-)
>>>>
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