The Ultimate SynthDB | Generalmusic (GEM) Equinox

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Description	The Equinox is a full featured music workstation with 16 MB of waveform ram with a powerful editable synth engine, excellent resonant filters, a 250,000 note sequencer, ability to load samples, groove library, and, a drawbar organ. The instrument also has four effects blocks. The Equinox has 76 keys with Aftertouch, Velocity, Pitch and, Modulation Wheels. It also offers hard drive options, floppy drive with OS updates done with floppy disks. It also has 32 megabytes of SIMM memory and 8 megabytes of battery backed RAM. Like previous instruments from GeneralMusic the Equinox is made for being a MIDI Master Keyboard with two sets of MIDI ports.
Brand	Generalmusic (GEM)
Model	Equinox
Device	Synth
Type	Keys
Engine Type	Digital
Engine	PCM, Sample
Voices (max)	64
Multitimbral	16
Oscillators	6
LFO	3 Sample & Hold, Saw Up, Saw Down, Sine, Square, Triangle
Engine Detailed	16 MB Rom waveforms
Sampler	16 bit, 44.1 kHz, 8MB RAM, 32 MB SIMM memory
Filter (VCF)	2 Band Pass, High Pass, Low Pass, Resonance, Parametric
Envelope (VCA)	2 ADSR
FX	4 fx blocks
Memory	2000 patches, 112 multipatch
Arpeggiator	16 Presets
Recording	250,000 event sequencer
Keys	76
Key type	Keys
Velocity	Y
Aftertouch	Channel
Audio	Stereo I-O
Midi	2x I-O-T
Produced:	1998 - 2004

Legend:		Obvious	Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO	Voltage Controlled Oscillator	DCO	Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO	Low Frequency Oscillator	Sub	Sub Oscillator
VCF	Voltage Controlled Filter	VCA	Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity	As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key.	Aftertouch	Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

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