From tmoravan@netcom.com Fri Jul 26 09:34:04 1996 26 Jul 96 12:33:58 +0500 26 Jul 96 06:10:35 +0500 3: 58 -0700 id DAA21163; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:03:53 -0700 From: tmoravan@netcom.com (Tom Moravansky) Subject: Re: Gleeman Pentaphonic Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: analogue@hyperreal.com > > >heard of it before. I bought it because I got it for only $50. If >anyone > > Are you kidding? you just got the fattest deal in history(: > There are only about 50 of these in the world. The synth has more good > looks than anything else but does sound good in a Prophet 5, memorymoog kinda > way. Word has it there might be a midi kit for it. > The numbers I hear the most are -- approx. 50 Gleemans were made in the standard black plastic case and somewhere between 5 and 10 were made in the clear case. The internal circuitry was exactly the same. There were a couple updates over the life of the machine. Early versions had no patch memory and the joystick only moved left and right. Later models added a true X-Y joystick for combined pitchbend and modulation. It also added a patch memory/recall system. Using 2 thumbwheels you selected the patch and then pressed a recall button. There was a 3-position switch that allowed you to select Store, Recall (via button push), and Recall (immediate). The last update changed the way the "Octave High/Low" switches worked under the oscillators. The original method was designed to allow selection of 2 different octave ranges. The update changed this to a new feature. The High/Low switch under OSC 1 transposes all 3 oscillators and the switches under Osc 2 and Osc 3 are used to latch an interval. After setting Osc 2 and Osc 3 to whatever new notes you want, you can play a chord using just one key and then transpose that chord by playing different keys. There is a guy in California who bought the remaining parts/boards/schematics from the Gleeman brothers and this gentleman was woring on a MIDI retrofit - nothing complex, just note on/off. Haven't heard from him in a while though. -- ___________________________________________________________ Tom Moravansky tmoravan@netcom.com