Guess that string/brass synth

[clubbedtodeath]

Morning all,

Having spent a few days playing with my recent acquisition, I thought I'd treat you all to a listen, and entreat you to guess what synth it is.

The only external effects used were delay and reverb, after a touch of compression. It's a multitrack recording, one track for the strings and one for the brass:


Mystery string/brass demo (mp3)

Any clues as to what it is?
(A free foot massage from Tallow for the correct guess!)

Cheers

[OriginalJambo]

Sounds good!

Of course it's more than likely to be a certain string machine/ensemble keyboard, but I'm thinking it's probably something less obvious. I'm going with a Nord Modular.

[clubbedtodeath]

Thanks James! Good first guess, but sadly miles off the mark.

It's:
- not any kind of Nord
- not a modular synth

[space6oy]

there's an mp3 link button. oughta use it.

[pflosi]

sounds oberheimish to me... or yamaha cs 50/60

[tomorrowstops]

you're certainly making it tricky with the effects and layering! since you're using the word brass, i'm assuming its a orchestra or a prelude (which are pretty much identical anyways!), and not either of the solinas. i can't think of any other units off the top of my head. i'm skeptical that its any of these however, becuase i dont hear any filters, and i don't think you can hide the filters on brass section of either the orchestra or prelude very well.

so i guess - i dunno

whatever it is, it sounds great! i'd love to hear some dry, unlayered tracks!

[shaft9000]

So you got that GX-1 after all....bastard

[CTB]

ARP Omni.

[braincandy]

Coupland Digital Music Synthesizer all the way!

[clubbedtodeath]

whatever it is, it sounds great! i'd love to hear some dry, unlayered tracks!

Thanks! Here's the strings minus reverb and delay:


Mystery Strings - dry (mp3)

To clarify further, it's not a Yamaha, or an ARP, or an Oberheim.

It does have a unison mode and built-in chorus; I'm only using the chorus at the moment.

Cheers

[EmptySet]

Wild guess from left field: Polysix?

[adamstan]

Synthex?

[Hybrid88]

Roland RS-505 Paraphonic?

[clubbedtodeath]

Not a Korg, Synthex or Roland.

Some more hints: it's North American in origin. It has two oscillators per note, and a maximum of 32-note polyphony.

A bit of applied thinking might find the answer..!

[nvbrkr]

It's not Yamaha, alright. That much I could tell.

If it's American, all I can off the top of my head are the Multivox ones. MX-3000? Not sure what you mean by "unison" here though.