Sequential Circuits (SCI) MAX, analog synthesizer, similar to Sixtrak or Multitrak synth.

I'm just demonstrating this highly underrated analogue synth. This is a video I started shooting over a year prior to uploading it but didn't get to complete till now. I made a web page on my site for it: http://gcmstudio.com/max/max.html. Pictures at the beginning are from when I serviced it after just buying it, though some of the pics are new. I'm amazed at the quality of detail in the build for what was an "inexpensive" synth at the time. You see the labeling & a totally valid musical motif written on a part of the keyboard that nobody was meant to see aside from those who assembled it. Any way, it's a great little instrument with six voices, one oscillator + noise per voice, ADSR volume and envelopes, triangle wave, sawtooth, square wave with Pulse-Width Modulation, four-pole filters with feedback, capable of some really strong resonance. It's one of the first MIDI capable synths able to send and receive on any channel and the companion computer software is what really makes this guy shine. It was actually marketed as a computer peripheral for home recording in 1984. No doubt, it was way ahead of its time.

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[Payst]

What was that software that you are using ? I want to make a dedicated knob box for mine with a pic controller..until then using my oxygen 8 49.

[wado1942]

@Payst Follow the link in the description. I will take you to a page with the software linked to it.

[synthartist69]

Very underrated!! Thanks for posting!

[shayeasy]

great demo! i love my six trak very dearly.