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Adding sysex patch saverestore also seemed like a good idea. Demo of the kawai sx 210 vintage analog synthesizer available at. Kawai piano owners manuals kawai technical support division. View and download kawai sx240 owners manual online. Being a true analog machine and holding a set of features which many other single oscillator synths are missing, it is still a mystery why such a great instrument like the sx 210 has never been through the popularity of other equivalent synths like the juno 60106 and. It has a single oscillator per voice and 8 notes of polyphony in normal mode, but it also has a twooscillator 4voice mode and a monophonic 8oscillator mode. Someone recently suggested that adding cc support to the kawai sx240 was a worthwhile project, despite the relatively small number of units sold. The kawai sx210 also manufactured under the brand name of teisco is probably one of the most underrated analog synths ever.
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After nearly a decade of samplebased romplers, keyboardists were beginning to pine for the good ol days of simple analogue waveforms and interactive, knobbed front panels a fact evidenced by the success of companies like korg, emu, and clavia, whose instruments at the time recalled the sound and. Several things have changed from the previous model es100. Kawai sx240 1984 8 voice programmable polyphonic synthesizer. A very interesting analogdigital synth, the sx 240 offers powerful sounds. Kawai sx210 sm service manual download, schematics. An earlier version of the sx240, its very similar in design and construction but doesnt have a sequencer or midi. Program changes are entered using a global increment.
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