EML SynKey Owner's Manual page 2

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Introducing SynKey. The first
synthesizer you can program.
Until now synthesizers were a lot more
complicated than your average musical
instrument.
To play them well required a solid
knowledge of electronics. To create music on
them took plenty of knob twiddling and fine
tuning. And to recreate a musical sound on
them demanded a complicated system of
notation. •
SynKey by JEML is different. SynKey is
made for the musician who doesn't happen
to have a degree in electronics.
To play SynKey takes musical ability
not electronics training. To create music on
SynKey requires musical imagination not a
technician's skill. And to recreate a sound
you've created is as simple as plugging in
a SynKey Program Card and playing the
keyboard.
The SynKey programming feature
gives you more time to create,
more flexibility in performance.
Spend your time creating. Once you get
the sound you want, punch out
the control positions in a SynKey
Program Card and file it. Then
start creating again. No need to
spend time writing down dial
positions and patches.
Every SynKey comes with a set of
twenty-five blank cards and a cardpunch plus
twenty-five factory-prepared cards with some
voicings to set you to thinking.
When you want to recreate a particular
sound on your SynKey, just plug in the card,
punch on the reader and your controls are al
ready set. You just play! On stage, that can
mean more imaginative arrangements, faster
changeover from sound to sound and a
tremendous new potential for the synthesizer
as a performance instrument.
SynKey is the most
playable synthesizer ever built.
We've simplified the synthesizer. SynKey
is easy to understand, easy to play. You can
manually set the controls just like other
synthesizers. The keyboard is a full 44 notes.
Second-touch is available with a variety of
effects. And the clearly marked, white-on-black
control panel with color-coded buttons cuts
out a lot of the confusion you may associate
with other synthesizers.
A sound like thirteen oscillators.
The more oscillators, the richer the
sound. Most portable synthesizers have, at
most, three oscillators. That limits the sound.
But to duplicate the SynKey sound you'd
need a synthesizer with thirteen oscillators,
and there isn't one made.
The SynKey sound is generated by a
unique top-octave divider which produces a
basic tone plus the next twelve higher semi
tones in precise intervals.
All you do is select the semitones you
want by punching the semitone select buttons.
No multiple oscillators to tune. No compli
cated setup time.
Carry a synthesized orchestra
under your arm.
SynKey weighs only twenty-nine
pounds. Which means you can travel light.
The SynKey system may just replace
two or three other keyboards you
may pack. So SynKey may just be all
you need to make all the music
you want. t
The first synthesizer you can program.
A Kaman Music Product made by Electronic Music Labs,