From whroberts@iquest.net Sat Aug 28 08:50:35 2004
Subject:Re: quiz

No. Yamaha SK-20. The big brother was the SK-50 (and VERY heavy). It has an
analog poly-synth section that is pretty cheesy, but the organ section uses an
early version of Yamaha's digital FM technology. The SK-20 doesn't do FM, but
simply uses the digital oscillators' sine waves as the "drawbars". Of course,
the DX-7 had the same sine waves, but only six to use in FM.

Bill R.

Quoting tonysounds :

> Crumar T1? Oh no, you said no drawbars. YAMAHA YC1???
>
> T
>
> Bill Roberts wrote:Hi all,
> I just bought a clone on Ebay for $120.00. Your responses will probably
>
> vary from amusement to disgust, when you hear what it is. It has the
> distinction of being the first DIGITAL clone. It has a Leslie sim, but it
> sounds like a single rotor model, not unlike the built-in Leslies that
> Hammond
> put in the T-100 spinet organ. It doesn't have drawbars, but sliders.
> However, the sliders work like drawbars in that you pull them down to make
> them
> louder (like a drawbar), instead of up, like a mixer. It doesn't have the
> two
> drawbars between the 2' and 1' represented, so I only have 7 to work with.
> It
> doesn't have CV, but it does have vibrato with variable rate and depth, so I
>
> can sort of come close. It has 2nd and 3rd harmonic percussion, with
> variable
> decay. It does not have MIDI. And it has an 11 pin connector to hook up a
> real Leslie, and you can disable the sim. The sim controls will control the
>
> real Leslie if it's hooked up. The raw sound of the drawbars isn't half bad,
>
> IMO. It has a single 5 octave keyboard, but it had a big brother with two
> manuals. For the price, and the fact it's old, I don't mind taking it on the
>
> road. I have been told it sounds very authentic through a real Leslie.
>
> Any guesses?
>
> Bill R.
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