Eml synthesizers

Hi All,

A fellow group member suggested I join, so here I am. 

I have an EML 500 that I'm looking to use my Kenton ProSolo MK2 on; however, board has no indications as to what inputs are what AND there is something that I find a bit odd about the board too.

I checked out some other pictures in hopes of determining what was what but I noticed that my board has 6 inputs (1 mic, 1 sequencer, not sure what the others are) as compared to the 3 inputs I've seen in other pictures.  These do not seem to be mods made by the previous owner as the "overlay" (graphics) match the outputs.

So, that said:

a) Has anyone seen a version like this in the past, and if so, care to help me identify the jacks?'
b) Can someone point me to a manual for this machine?

I can post pictures of the board later on Friday.  If anyone has any thoughts/suggestions on how getting this going with the Kenton, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
Van

Hi Van, and welcome here. Maybe this will help:

http://www.cem3374.com/docs/Manuals/EML/400_SM.pdf

Or maybe it won't. There seems to be enough interest in interfacing EML synths with external controls that maybe someone good with electronics could design an interface module. It would do something like triggering the output of the correct voltage for a specific Electrocomp pitch in response to detecting a voltage that would produce that pitch on a standard-ratio volts-per-octave synth.

On the McLeyvier, which was digitally-controlled analog, we had essentially a lille volt-meter and a frequency detector on each of the voice cards. The user would run a calibration program from time to time that would loop until it had established a table of numerical offsets to the number being sent to the control voltage DAC that produced each desired pitch of the scale. That might of course be overkill for normal humans, but something should be possible for the Ecomps.

- Laurie

--- In emlsynth@yahoogroups.com, "van_m_santos" <van.santos@...> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> 
> A fellow group member suggested I join, so here I am. 
> 
> I have an EML 500 that I'm looking to use my Kenton ProSolo MK2 on; however, board has no indications as to what inputs are what AND there is something that I find a bit odd about the board too.
> 
> I checked out some other pictures in hopes of determining what was what but I noticed that my board has 6 inputs (1 mic, 1 sequencer, not sure what the others are) as compared to the 3 inputs I've seen in other pictures.  These do not seem to be mods made by the previous owner as the "overlay" (graphics) match the outputs.
> 
> So, that said:
> 
> a) Has anyone seen a version like this in the past, and if so, care to help me identify the jacks?'
> b) Can someone point me to a manual for this machine?
> 
> I can post pictures of the board later on Friday.  If anyone has any thoughts/suggestions on how getting this going with the Kenton, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Van
>

Also, though these docs might be in the group's files (I didn't look) there is an EML Owners Manual and a Service Manual here, along with other Electrocomp docs:

http://www.cem3374.com/docs/Manuals/EML/

--- In emlsynth@yahoogroups.com, "van_m_santos" <van.santos@...> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> 
> A fellow group member suggested I join, so here I am. 
> 
> I have an EML 500 that I'm looking to use my Kenton ProSolo MK2 on; however, board has no indications as to what inputs are what AND there is something that I find a bit odd about the board too.
> 
> I checked out some other pictures in hopes of determining what was what but I noticed that my board has 6 inputs (1 mic, 1 sequencer, not sure what the others are) as compared to the 3 inputs I've seen in other pictures.  These do not seem to be mods made by the previous owner as the "overlay" (graphics) match the outputs.
> 
> So, that said:
> 
> a) Has anyone seen a version like this in the past, and if so, care to help me identify the jacks?'
> b) Can someone point me to a manual for this machine?
> 
> I can post pictures of the board later on Friday.  If anyone has any thoughts/suggestions on how getting this going with the Kenton, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Van
>