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Kachkanar | Maestro

Description

The Maestro is a four voice analog/digital synthesizer. It offers 20 presets arranged by style on the front panel. An on board X/Y joystick allows the player to manipulate pitch and vibrato depth. The instrument was the first soviet synthesizer with a microprocessor and was manufactured in the mid to latter 1980s at the Kachkanar military radio plant where the Polivoks synthesizer was manufactured. The instrument allows you to play 4 voices at once and use the knobs and a joystick to edit and change the sound in real time.The unit has a resonant analog filter as well as an arpeggiator/tremolo effect with speed control. The LFO has a triangle waveform to modulate pitch, while the arpeggiator has a hold function to let the player change make live edits to the sound including changing the speed of the arpeggiator and LFO.
BrandKachkanar
ModelMaestro
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeDigital
EnginePCM
Voices (max)4
Oscillators1
LFO1 Triangle
Engine Detailed20 Preset voices.
Filter (VCF)1 12dB Slope (2-pole), Low Pass, Resonance
FXChorus
Arpeggiatorarpeggiator/tremolo - rate, up/down, single/double, note memory
Keys36
Key typeKeys
VelocityN
AftertouchN
AudioMono otu
Produced:1986 - 1986
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.

Manuals, patches etc.

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