Basically I got very lucky…
There was a system listed on muffs (where I haven’t really been frequenting for some time) by someone I’ve dealt with a bit in the past at the same time I periodically checked in to see if I had messages…
I asked the question about trades and it turned out I had something he wanted… so after much deliberation my end, I finally jumped (flopped!) on it!
The rarity is interesting, since it seems there’s more E-mu in the UK than anywhere else now, thanks largely to Tony Wride who bought in a huge system some time back (pawn shop find in the states is part of a bigger/better story!) and subsequently befriended Dave Rossum and the rest of the crew, who donated a load of ‘scrap’ parts and PCBs…
Tony, who’s ridiculously experienced in terms of this kind of thing, has done something of a MEMS project on the format, servicing, finishing, reissuing and even releasing a couple of new functions to the system around his day job, from which he’s now retired. You can actually buy new repro systems now via him too - I’ll post a link below. Turns out he lives nearby too!
So yeah, I got lucky and now have a small ‘wing’ system, with a mostly original circuits, overhauled (new) panels and controls, alongside a few repros and a couple of new bits - two voice midi control being one of them.
It’s an interesting thing to patch, since there’s lots of normalling, built around two pre-patched voices, which can be taken anywhere you want. The oscillators, while somewhat basic outside the big one in terms of waveforms, sound huge, as do the filters. All of that stuff in the set is me just messing live as I get to know it… just jamming the system live.
I’ll see if I can find a pic…
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