MOTM

Both the Music Easel and the VCS3 MkII had boards for "storing" patches.  On the
EMS, the "Presto Patch" cards stored a configuration of the matrix pins.  You still
had to set up the knobs yourself.  On the Music Easel, you could set up patch
interconnections and slider values (with resistors!) on the program boards.  Music
Easels came with a set of the boards and a few boxes of resistors for common slider
values.  Cool ideas for the first "programmable" synths but you'd better really like
a patch in order to match resistor values and solder them onto a board.  The Easel
had a three position switch to select the front panel, the program card, or both.

Eric

--- davevosh@... wrote:
didn`t vcs3 and buchla music 
> easel have something like this ? i don`t know how well it worked but it was a 
> precursor to the now common digital patch memory in midi type kybds.

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