elka ek44 - information ?

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i've just been given an elka ek44 which appears to be a (shit) competitor for the dx7. it was first made in about 1986.

it seems to be very a very mediocre sounding fm synth with one redeeming quality that was that the keyboard was very well made (not the rest mind, just the keys) :hihi:

i can find very little about it through google, can't really imagine why anyone would want one and will probably bin it if no one suggests differently.

i wondered whether anyone had any experience of it, had ever heard anything about it and, those of you with any experience, had any suggestions what i might do with it.

i quite like the idea of "wrecking it" in a controlled manner in order to get some interesting sounds out of it but have no experience of this sort of thing, no idea whether it would be worth it and barring some electronics classes at uni 10 years ago, very little skill :hihi:

any advice (including throw it away its a pile of bollocks) would be greatly appreciated.

cheers,

steve.

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little bump here.

looks like it's heading for the tip.

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I was about to buy one way back in the mid 80s. It was marketed as an easier form of FM synthesizer (probably 4 OP FM) just after the patents for Yamaha had run out.
The price was around 1500 dollar new.

Don't throw it away. It had some decent basses if I recall, but DX slapbasses are maybe not that hot nowadays...

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invitia wrote:I was about to buy one way back in the mid 80s. It was marketed as an easier form of FM synthesizer (probably 4 OP FM) just after the patents for Yamaha had run out.
The price was around 1500 dollar new.

Don't throw it away. It had some decent basses if I recall, but DX slapbasses are maybe not that hot nowadays...
i've been messing with it tonight, when you dive in you can actually get some decent sounds, but with a 2 line lcd and one data entry slider anything more than very, very arbitary editing takes an age. i've definately been spoilt by softsynths and my nord.

its also quite large and very heavy - i'm afraid it does seem that its destined for the tip.

cheers,

steve.

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