360 systems – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:24:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Obscure Synths+Keys of the early 80s, part XIV https://www.preservationsound.com/obscure-synthskeys-of-the-early-80s-part-xiv/ https://www.preservationsound.com/obscure-synthskeys-of-the-early-80s-part-xiv/#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:24:43 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7652 ARP_SOLUSToday: just some offbeat keys+synths that caught my eye; i’ve never come across any of these in the shops+stages+studios of my corporeal reality so I think perhaps uncommon items?  Srry, it’s early.  About to head to the LAST FLEA MKT OF THE YR.  Bittersweet times.  Aie, I recall salad-days when April was young and barkers descended on New Milford plain to hawk goods of dubious origin.  Like the sun, the tide, and the pork-belly market, that time will rise again I suppose. Below: the Akai AX-80 synth c. 1985, the Crumar Rhody ‘electronic piano’ of 1980,  the fascinating Casio 8000 modular…casio…system of ’84, the 1980 ARP Solus (also above), and the 360 Systems ‘Digital Keyboard’ of 1984.

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DOWNLOAD: 360_EQ

Four channels, fully parametric, with filters that offer +12 db/ -infinity (notch) operation, and 28 memory locations.  The pre-plug-in plug-in.  Anyone?

360_2800_eq_specs

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