This video shows the Farfisa Polychrome played with a Roland DEP-5 FX processor for delay effects.
The Farfisa Polychrome from 1979 is one of the rarest Farfisa keyboards. It is a flexible string ...
This video shows the Farfisa Polychrome played with a Roland DEP-5 FX processor for delay effects.
The Farfisa Polychrome from 1979 is one of the rarest Farfisa keyboards. It is a flexible string synthesizer / string ensemble with a very characterful, musical sound.
It has a PERCUSSIVE section, a STRING section, a ENSEMBLE section and a VOCAL CHORUS section. The most sections have VCF cutoff / resonance controls. It has a great phaser (with SPEED, EMPHASIS and TREMOLO controls), a noise generator, single outputs, an external input jack (for external signals, which can be treated with the Polychrome's chorus and phaser) and a lot more... It even has aftertouch! And it's fully polyphonic, too...
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With the control over the envelopes and filters, it reminds me more of the Polymoog than the Arp/Solina String Ensemble. I suppose its 1979 Arp contemporary would be the Omni-I,
Every time I heard about String Machines being a replacement for a Mellotron, I'd be confused as I'd never heard one really sound anything close to a 'Tron. This definitely fits that bill. If only my RS 202 could do a 10th of this!!
The delicate nature of some of the sounds going through the phaser section sounds JUST like the swirly intro/outro bits on the original Charlie's Angels episodes. I would bet that this is what was used - such a unique sound, nothing else would have been as good.
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