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2008-11-25 by Travis Shire

Here's a bit of trivia for you.....did you know there was an arcade game in the mid 80s that had a real 6 ch 100% analog synth for sound? It was the Bally Sente SAC-1 system....which was like an early ancestor to the Neo Geo cart based system of the 90s. It used 6 CEM3394s under software control. I have several of the soundboards from that system...and, you can easily hack them to accept midi note on/off/pitch! I know all this because I was an arcade game repair technician years back.

I forgot to mention that this board with the CEM chips was made by......drumroll......Sequential Circuits! Says so right on it. I believe the Six Trak/Multi-Trak and Max are based on it.



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