Maestro Soviet Synthesizer

Maestro Soviet Synthesizer

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• Maestro
• Russian
• Synthesizer

[Holzopel]

Haha Moog/303 Clone.........with wavetable inside? LOL! You are real synth experts! Also Polivoks has no Moog or 303-Filter (this also has NO filterCAPs inside--6dB per stage-->12dB ....is done by driving programmable OPamps at very low current, so high frequencies roll off) , only one of them Pnm2 or so has a moog clonefilter and sounds quite distorted, fat sound but lousy kbd. (and breath taking, stinky sovjet PCBs), Maestro is something totally different, this is why it is so wanted!

[zamisers7k]

@Holzopel it was more the looks and functionality that I think they where going for on them. Clone was a bad way to put it, maybe more like the idea was to be a competitor of those synths. None of them really sound alike either in my opinion, little to do with the filter or how the osc is generated.

[Keijz74]

Is this a clone Moog or is it "a typical Russian engineering example" -> part clone, part own improvisation? Shear randomness: I read an article about the development of a small Russian car yesterday -> They started with a Fiat 500 or 600 and then started changing all kinds of things: For the engine, for example, they tried a motorcycle engine, but it was not powerful enough, so they developed a VW-like engine but in V-shape. The actual model showed a Fiat like nose but had a look of its own.

[zamisers7k]

I'm not sure, but I think your prob right, they were kind of behind their own curtain with a lot of products, no corporate copyrights doodoo. I've got the feeling this was their attempt at a tb-303 clone, why I tried to do some comparing between the two. It was built by the same company that made the Polovoks which prob more a Moog clone. Formentia built it like it was going to be used for military applications. Very tough for its age, yet there are some very delicate parts in it too.

[Keijz74]

Thanks for your response. I have seen more examples of their engineering, like ZX spectrum clones with a clone processor, where they couln't clone certain parts, which were replaced by their own "elbow grease and sticky tape" solutions. Like replacing IC with a bunch of transistors and stuff, to emulate the functions of the ICs.

[zamisers7k]

Yup, it is intresting cracking it open to see how they engineer some things difrently in it. The buttons spring back back because they have foam rubber under them. I've never seen that before, and why not? It works. The magnetic reed switches under the keys are intresting too, I had to replace some that got damaged during shipping, and I sticky taped a couple extra on the inside of the case for next time.

[UnchainTheNight1]

in soviet RUSSIA the maestro plays YOU!

[MaJI0u]

охуенный аппарат!

[Holzopel]

Ohh with my last comment I wasn't so right. Know a little more about it, since I got one to service. It doesn't have ONE Fiilter, it has various!!! Yes, it has 4 DAConverters inside and what do they do? A binary counter feeeds them SAW or PulseWaves like an oridinary analog synth....like Crumar Bit. First5 sounds are clavi, piano, an other fixed resonat filter sounds, BP and passive high/lowpassF, that dont track with the tune. 2nd-Row: VCF-Bass with the POLIVOKs FILTER!!!

[theeltea]

@Monkmaster1969 We did? :) The Cold War ended with the Cuban crisis, you know...

[theeltea]

@MrBratkenSolov Вы, скорее всего, из другого поколения музыкантов.

[theeltea]

@zamisers7k How come this one doesn't have a step-sequencer like the 303 does? The filter doesn't sound that bad I would admit. Other soviet synths have worse filters.

P.S. I'm from Russia, and I've heard quite a lot of that soviet-era crap. :)

[synth77]

Sound like a sh 101..kinda

[helefitta]

I would kill for one of these! (this means hit me up on the inbox if you have one for sale)

[PauseTape]

Awesome.

[MrBratkenSolov]

Я хоть и лютый трешер и мне пох, что слушать и что использовать для написания своей музыки, но я не знаю, как бы я применил этот синт. Ей-богу.