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MKS-50

MKS-50

ManufacturerRoland
FunctionSynthesizer
Produced1987-
Form Factor19" Rackmount
Signal PathHybrid Analog / Digital Hardware
Channels6 Voice
NotesThe MKS-50 is a rack-mount version of the Alpha Juno. It has the same synth engine and architecture, with some added features like 16 programmable chord memories, the ability to store velocity, volume, panning, de-tune, portamento and other similar parameters within each patch you create. The optional and highly recommended PG-300 will give you traditional slider type control of all editable tone parameters which include DCO (digitally controlled oscillators) LFO, bend, ENV, pulse, waveforms, noise, PW/PWM, high pass filter, VCF (filter) with freq/env/res/LFO/kybd, VCA envelope, chorus, and more. Polyphony - 6 voices Oscillators - 1 DCO per voice: Pulse, Sawtooth, Sub, noise waveforms. 1 sub-oscillator. Effects - portamento, 16 chord memories, transpose, chorus Memory - 64 User, 64 preset, backup to cassette Filter - 24db analog lowpass filter Envelopes - ADSR Envelopes for filter and amp Arpeg/Seq - None Keyboard - none Control - MIDI (w/ velocity and aftertouch mappable to VCF or ENV) Date Produced - 1987