An 8-voice
polyphonic analog synthesizer with a 61-
note keyboard and full
MIDI support, released in
1985.
Very
similar to the
Juno-106 from
Roland.
The Split-8 is one of the many
synths from
Sequential Circuits using
CEM 3394 chips. There's only one
VCO per voice, with
waveform switchable between
sawtooth, triangle and
square. A
chorus mode is available to
thicken the single-
oscillator sound.
A
resonant 4-
pole low-pass 24
dB/
octave VCF serves as the
filter.
The
LFO has controls for
rate ((0.25 - 20
Hz) and
depth, and can be switched between
triangle and
square waveforms. It can be
routed to the VCO, the VCF or
pulse width modulation.
There are 2
ADSR envelope generators on the
VCA.
The keyboard features
splits and
layers, which are saved along with
patch data. An
unison mode tansforms the S8 into a
thick 8-VCO
monophonic synth.
There is
space for 61 patches and 64 performances in the
internal memory.
Programming the S8 can be slow since it allows only one
parameter to be edited at once with the single
data knob.
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