[sdiy] Six/6 voice synths

[Graham Atkins]

Tom, Colin,

Yes and timewise JP4 was 1st, then JP8 was released and JP6 was
the most recent. Why did Oberheim make a 2-Voice, 4-Voice and
8-Voice but not a 6-Voice.....But then later, was it the OBx that you
could buy with so many voices, but add more to a total of 8 ?. Would
they have saved much by leaving out a couple of voices ?.

I think only the "marketing types" could answer that one.

Graham

On 30 Jul 2009, at 15:44, Colin f wrote:

>
>
>> Just a quick question; Is there any technical reason why so many
>> polyphonic synths have six voices?
>
> I think it's purely economics.
> Look inside a Jupiter 6. There are one full, and one half-empty 4  
> voice
> card. It could easily have been a Jupiter 8 MkII (in name), but the  
> extra
> bits must have pushed the purchase price too high for the marketing  
> types.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin f
>
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