Siel DK70 keytar Demo

Bob Weigel of http://www.sounddoctorin.com plays the DK70 to a background loop done with just a K1200 Kurzweil bass sound and Alesis D4 drums. This unit is fairly rare. Only a few thousand made. It has one SSM2045 VCF and one generator chip that is driven by the SSM2031 HF vco chip. And a TDA1022 BBD for chorus as I recall. Digital envelopes. The DK80 is basically twice the synthesizer except they only use 6 voices on each voice chip! THe DK70 is 8 voice. Not sure why they did that but anyway both units have basically the same sound engine, the DK80 is just bigger and is 'Bi-timbral' so it can layer the two sounds etc. The keytar necks are hard to come by. If anyone has one lying around let me know. I have two more of these I'd like to rig up for somebody. Of course you can play them without the neck just using the pitch wheel instead of the bender and the vibrato button that is on the machine..but you sacrifice the octave shifter and the hold button.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Progressive
• Rock
• Electronic
• Unsigned
• Analog
• Synthesizer
• Demonstration
• Demo

[keyportaccess]

where i can buy the slider on the left ? how is the name of that ?

[sounddoctorin]

@keyportaccess The goal is to finish my neck when I get back..it'll be *much* cooler :-). It's own lfo for thumb operated vibrato depth AND speed with just your thumb. And a tilt instead of slider for pitch control. Much better so you can hold notes while you bend for instance I'm going to outfit the few units I'll have for sale with them and make some extras -Bob

[twitterfied]

I want one!!~

Got any spare working units for sale?

[sounddoctorin]

I've got a few that I'm going to try to make custom 'stage set' units for. See the note below

[justino30]

lol that sounds sweet

would you be interested in selling?

and do you have any left with the original handle?

[sounddoctorin]

I will be setting up a few of this special grip for sale hopefully. I only have the one with original grip. I kick myself for missing bidding on some that went too cheap on ebay a year or two ago. (I think they sold for 10 bucks or something each. arghh. )

[sounddoctorin]

Hahah. Yeah I was just screwing around to demonstrate the features. That sound I started out with wasn't at all musically conducive :-) The one kind of in the middle was the only one I'd have tried to integrate into anything I think and the organ type sound after it. The others are more suited for different types of music for sure.

[chrishooper68]

Wow, that brings back memories.

I use to have one of those with all the accessories back in '89.

I sold it for $35 around 1995 just 'cause I got bored with it.

Was great fun while I had it though.

[sounddoctorin]

I have a few fixed up at the moment but I've scoped out the grip and I'm going to, when I get time, try to make some ones that have tilters instead of ribbons. While the ribbon is cool in it's own respect I believe I can engineer a tilting mechanism that will be much easier to control and will allow the other buttons to be controlled without feeling around for them etc. :-)

[justino30]

contact my account if you have one of these badboys for sale (preferably with the handle attachment)

ty