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GEM General Music Equinox Pro 76 Key Synthesizer - $595 (Queensbury)
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All is functioning and it is very clean with just a few minor cosmetics. It has a draw bar organ mode with the sliders, 16 track sequencer. Splits, performances, quite a bit of versatility and it's nice to have the extra keys a 76 key synth offers. Crisp digital to very fat analog...quite a sound beast. I did not test the disk drive as I don't have any sound disks for it. I did insert a blank disc, but it was of the wrong density and format. It appeared to read it and gave back the message "disk not formatted."
Included is the synthesizer, power cord and owner's manual.
Here's a link to some decent videos I found on YouTube demonstrating the sounds of the Equinox:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gem+Equinox+synth+workstation+-+Jamming+part+2+&spfreload=1
Specs from General Music:
• An immense database (16 Mb samples) with over 1000 preset
Sounds and user memory locations to store more than
2000 new sounds. 112 Performance memories and a Groove
machine featuring over 1000 user-programmable Grooves.
• Unique Drawbar mode for instant access to vintage electronic
organ sounds using the 8 panel sliders as drawbars with
key-click, percussion, overdrive, etc..
• 250.000 event, 16 track sequencer with advanced song editing facilities.
• Advanced Sound editing facilities with 64 note polyphony,128 digital filters with resonance, up to 6 oscillators per voice, 3 Lfos and up to 21 independent Envelopes with 10 segment resolution.
• Sample Translator to create user-samples and load new samples of the most popular formats (Wav (PC), Aiff (Mac), Akai™, Kurzweil™, Smp, Snd. Future os versions will allow loading of Roland™, Ensoniq™ and Emu™ samples.
• Full MIDI implementation - The Equinox is the perfect Master Controller for advanced MIDI set-ups (32 MIDI Channel control, 16 programmable Midi Zones, 8 programmable Sliders, 2 programmable Wheels, 3 assignable Pedals).
• Flash-ROM memory which allows the instrument's memory to be instantly upgraded by simply inserting a special floppy disk in the drive.
• The Equinox can be fitted with optional memory (8 Mb backed Sample RAM and up to 32 Mb SIMMs), an internal Hard Disk (2 Gigabytes) and a SCSI port (compatible with CD-ROM, Zip™, Jaz™ external hard drives).
$595 OBO...Cash and Cary only Located about 5 minutes off exit 19 of the Northway.