Product: Logan String Melody
Price Paid: 27,50 (Euro) used
Submitted
11/13/2003
at
05:32am
by
rainer aka trouby
Ease of Use
:
10
plug the cables, switch it on, slide some faders and play
Features
:
5
anno 1978, no midi
has a splitted polyphony keyboard and 8 vol. faders: the upper 2",1",1/2"; the lower 8",4",2" and 16" monobass & perc. bass. Original 1 preset sound (orchestra) - strings complete. Strings & monobass routed thru a 3x noisy FM-chorus (ITT-IC).
upper & lower keyb. has sep. A-R ENV faders as voltage reference.
internal technology: Main top octave divider= Mostek MK50240N + ~2MHz LC osc.;9x SAJ110 7stage freq. divider -> ENV generator (AHD)with diode gate (makes with RC-part an integration, square to peak) and transistor VCA -> Mixer (passive highpass for lower tones to get corners on signal) -> presence filter -> 3x Chorus -> OutAmp with low peak; Perc. bass taken from lower keyb. thru a serial 24x transistor switch -> ransistor freq. divider to get 16" -> monobass out & decayed perc. bass (A=30ms, D=700ms), active lowpass filter -> OutAmp
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
5
at first the sound is habitual, very mid (320-5kHz),good for dirty techno, in using with ext. FX and filters it sounds good, own chorus very noisy (30-40dB SNR) and the VCA never full closed -> called Bienenschwarm,too.
Reliability
:
10
I think so, need some secs while starting. iTs very heavy (for me) 23 kg I think (I broke my spring weighter) incl. 10kg case, 5kg keyboard, 5kg electronics, 3kg trafo. Keyboard needs sometimes contact spray.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
whats this??? my models SN was 2097, 110x45x20cm
unfortunaly I broke my while modding: shortcut from VCA diode gato to ground; VCA-voltage had 18V (15V power supply); it had the variant chorus mod: slow LFO hub, fast LFO freq. & hub, 3x chorus out, Vol. out
Overall Rating
:
6
It's difficult to get one, I sampled the perc. bass (www.oneshotsamples.com);
tracks used this (www.slr-cdr.de.vu): Trouby - Sunrise on the Beach, A day on the Beach, Sunset on the Beach-String Melody Mix; Dr. tape - Furzfabrik (fart manufacture, chords), auto song (car siren)
