A user-friendly polyphonic analogue synth with a few nice features, acceptable sound, and more than bare-bones MIDI implementation. Unison (monophonic, all 8 oscillators stacked) is possible, and programmable. Patches may be 'linked' in memory so that calling up one automatically calls up the second for a split or layer. Korg), asked for some design changes and a name change, and sold the Japanese-made synth as the Split-8.įeatures And Cabinet Brief Summary of Features: Relatively uncommon 8-voice polyphonic, bi-timbral analogue synthesizer with the ability to split or layer two patches ('double' mode). Sequential, liking what the Japanese manufacturer had done with their design and worrying that they might market their synth with one of their competitors (ie. They added a 5-octave, 61-note (C-C) keyboard to it and sold it in Japan, calling it the Pro-8. This Japanese company created an 8-voice bi-timbral version of the Six-Trak. It was their plan to have that that manufactuer design a synthesizer more targeted at the Japanese buyer. Image from a Sequential Ad, courtesy of Benjamin WardĪround 1983-84 Sequential Circuits, in order to break into the Japanese market, shipped the Curtis SENTE (CEM 3394) chip and the firmware for the Sequential Six-Trak to an other Japanese manufacturer. Search the Classifieds for this instrument.

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