Rhodes Chroma (ex KRAFTWERK Kling Klang Studios) - first contact ! скачать в хорошем качестве

Rhodes Chroma (ex KRAFTWERK Kling Klang Studios) - first contact !

The Rhodes Chroma is a very rare, 16 voice fully analog synthesizer from the early 1980ies. A friend of mine (Bernd van Vugt) lent me his fully refurbished Chroma for a few weeks in order to explore its capabilities. Thanks a lot, Bernd 2 !! He told me that this particular instrument was given to him by a synth tech who worked at Kraftwerk´s Kling Klang studios. The Chroma suffered from battery leakage and a broken power supply (typical symptoms of the Chroma). I´ve spent a few weeks now with this instrument and in spite of a few superb factory banks I didnt find any patches that didn´t try to imitate real instruments like piano, organs, flutes and so on. So I put hands on and programmed my own sounds, which are basicly variations of sounds from factory bank 1. Programming this synth is not very easy, since there is only one slider for parameter change and a tiny display showing very abstract abbreviations and numbers. The aftermarket EES midi interface for the Chroma has got its own sysex format. The only available editor for this format is running on an Atari 1040. At the moment I´m trying to get it working on my PC with an Atari emulator. You name it, there are a lot of unforseen obstacles to overcome in order to bring this beautiful instrument into the 21. century. There are more videos to come including a "one synth one song" video with the Rhodes Chroma. Here are further details about the Rhodes Chroma quoted from http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/chro... "Quite a rare analog synthesizer from the early 1980's (only 3,000 made). The Chroma was originally an ARP project. However Rhodes picked it up after ARP dissolved in 1981. Rhodes, best known for its Electric Pianos released the Chroma (and Chroma Polaris) as their premiere analog synthesizers. The Chroma had 16 voices with 1 oscillator per voice (or 8 voices with 2 osc/voice), a 64-note velocity sensitive weighted keyboard, and a very complicated but powerful synthesis design. Programming was further complexed by a limited implementation of just 2 rows of membrane push-buttons. With few sliders to grab, hands-on control is cut short. However the Chroma is a very stable and elegant synth with complete auto-tuning, split-keyboard mode and the ability to link to a computer! Although the Chroma came before there was MIDI, all was not lost. Rhodes used ARP's proprietary Digital Access Control which was used in some ARP instruments for inter-connecting them. Midi retro-fits can be purchased these days which convert MIDI to ARP's DAC system. Perhaps its most advanced feature for its time was the ability to interface with an Apple IIe computer for sequence and patch storage using dedicated Chroma software! That may not be very practical today, but historically it was a significant example of how synthesizers and personal-computers could work together. Also on-board you'll find two arpeggiators, a graphic equalizer, pitch/mod and 6 other sliders. A keyboardless expander module of the Chroma was also made available. It has been used by Jethro Tull, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul and Oscar Peterson. "