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| Unfortunately the Moog Corporation couldn't sustain its early success.The Polymoog,theoretically the first practical polyphonic synthesizer,was in fact more like an organ with a filter section;and by the time the Memorymoog,in effect a polyphonic Minimoog,appeared in 1982,the company was on the rocks.After a stint with his own company Big Briar,designing unusual performance controllers,Moog moved to Kurzweil where he heads the design department.Oddly enough,the father of the synthesizer can't |
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| Or Master keyboard.With the advent of MIDI,it's no longer necessary to buy a whole new keyboard when you want a new set of sounds;just get a cheaper MIDI sound module,and control it with a single mother keyboard.The mother keyboard needn't have any sound-producing circuits itself,so long as it has good MIDI control facilities.After a premature stab at the market which resulted in a lot of overpriced,underpowered mother keyboards,most of the major manufacturers have now retrenched with more |
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| flexible,value-for-money units.A good buy,though,remains the Cheetah MK7VA,which for around 400 pound offers seven octaves of velocity and aftertouch-sensitive keys,four MIDI outputs and several programmable split/layer patch memories. |
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| A multi-timbral instrument is capable of playing several different sounds at once,usually by virtue of operating in Mono mode under the control of a MIDI sequencer.One of the first multi-timbral synths was the Sequential Six-Trax,launched in 1984.More recent multi-timbral instruments include the Roland D10/20,Casio CZ-101,Yamaha D110,Cheetah MS6 and Yamaha TX81Z.Multi-timbral instruments sometimes allow you to assign different sounds to different zones of the keyboard,for instance the DX11;or Continue |
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