I always liked my Crumar Orchestrator. The strings were clean and adjustable
enough and you could always blend in the brass for a little bottom to them.......
Vance....now I have my Synergy for non-tape string (and other) sounds
Mark Glinsky wrote:
> At 10:56 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Tony Moffett wrote:
> >How about the Freeman string symphonizer? Anyone remember, own or use one?
> >I fixed a few and for it's time (already had my Mellotron too), the sound
> >was interesting. IMHO it far out did the ARP string ensemble, but was
> >substantially larger like something else we cherish.
>
> I have two Freemans, that I was going to make into a double unit, but now I
> think I'll
> just sample them.
>
> I always liked the Freeman much more than the Solinas, ARPs and especially the
> Omni (IMO one of the worst keyboards ever made), and bought my first Freeman
> new in 1978. The Freeman weighs 77 pounds, so it was a handful, but the
> package was well designed for setting up quickly, and it's a great
> instrument to
> stack others on.
>
> Wish I could track down one of Ken Freeman's original prototype units (or the
> prototype unit, since he kept cannabalizing one unit to make the next), but
> I don't
> think it exists. As a matter of fact, I own Ken Freeman's old Korg M1
> module &
> sound cards, and tried to find if he remembered any of his old modifications
> for the Freeman circuitry (as well as the Yamaha CS-80 unison modification
> mentioned in Peter Forrest's A-Z Synth book), but apparently they're lost
> in the mists of time.
>
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