OldSynths

Wow, I didn't you made that one, Marvin! Cool...

Speaking of string synths, I scored a couple lately. The Korg Lambda 
is like a piece of furniture (lots of wood!), but sounds sublime! The 
keyboard feels really nice, and the sounds are all very warm. I 
always use a muted electric piano that ends up sounding like a nice 
muted warm pad, and some strings w/ a very slow attack so that they 
swell up if you hold the keys down -- very nice. My friend got it on 
eBay for $150, near mint, and sold it to me.

The Crumar Orchestrator is not as nice, but that's cool. The brass 
can get squelchy if you get under the panel and turn up the resonance 
trimpot. (Both synths use SSM2040 filters -- or was it 2044? I 
forget.) The presets all have levels plus on/off switches for each 
side of the middle split point. The 'Bass' button can really make it 
farty at the, uh... bottom. (Sorry ;)

The Korg Delta is like a Lambda but more synthy, w/ noise and a lot 
of more typical synth controls, and more access to the great filter, 
plus it's mostly metal and plastic. The joystick is really nice and 
much more powerful/non-subtle than the Lambda's. 

I'd love to get a Stringz n Thingz! 
Anyone else have any other string machines? What are they like? I 
guess I'm getting addicted to that sound...

Scott

--- In oldsynths@yahoogroups.com, Marvin Jones <mjones@s...> wrote:
> Fans of older Paia gear may be interested in Mark Vail's Vintage 
Gear 
> column in the June 2003 issue of Keyboard.  He has selected the 
Paia 
> Stringz 'n' Thingz unit as this month's feature.  
> 
> The Keyboard website has the column posted online now:  
> 
> http://www.keyboardmag.com/0603_c4.htm
> 
> mj