MOTM

synth_guru@...

>>There's a sucker born every minute<<

lesmizz@... writes:

>>>Oh yea....
And if you go look on the Wersi site, the Galaxy is no longer in production.  
There's newer improved models!  Listen to the cheezy demo sound files by 
Claudia Hirschfeld, who is a competent "concert pop" organist. There's 
actually a lot of synth technology packed into these things....they load Akai 
sound disk, built in HD recording, full XG + GM standard.... About as much as 
your standard Yamaha or Roland synth these days!  <<<

Just to add something.  The reason I brought up the Galaxy in the first place 
was because others were bringing up acoustic instruments as the ultimate 
analog machines.  That was incorrect since they weren't analog.  But the 
Galaxy is the ultimate 100% analog machine as far as price, size and 
impressive looks.  There's a couple of 2044 filter chips in it, similar to 
what the MOTM filters were modeled after.  There's about 6 BBD delay chips 
for great chorus and rotary effects.  It's a good sounding organ / synth as 
can be heard in the MP3.

But like everybody else, Wersi went digital.  However with 208 voices of 
polyphony, built in vocoder, B3 modeling and a million other things, they are 
no slouches.  And their latest keyboard is the only one in the world I know 
of that can run PC applications like Cubase with it's onboard PC and burn CDs 
too.  It's a full music studio which allows you to go from 
composing/performing to finished burned CD without leaving the keyboard.

As for adding Midi to your old organs so you can in turn control your MOTM 
from them via Midi to CV, the other list member who also has a Galaxy pointed 
me to Doepfer.  They make a Midi control circuit board.  I may put one in my 
Moog Taurus bass pedals to give it Midi capability.  If anybody has used one 
of them, please let me know if all it needs is a closed non-debounced contact 
to trigger/gate a note.  The docs weren't very detailed about that.

-Elhardt