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The Opus-3 is one great synth. It was designed by Herbert A. Deutsch from Hofstra University who originally nudged Dr. Robert Moog into building synthesizers and later served as director of sales & marketing for Moog Music. Herb also wrote the owner's manual. The sounds are broken up into 3 categories: Strings, Brass and Organ. Strings and Brass have their own separate VCF (filter) sections, the Organ section has none. The Opus-3 also has 2 sound outputs for an early stereo effect with panning! It's a colorful little synth with clearly laid out sliders and is fairly straightforward. It has classic analog Moog sound quality and is a great source of some string and lower octave techno-organ sounds. It is used by Stereolab, Kraftwerk, Zonetech, 808 State and The Rentals.

Specifications

Polyphony: Yes

Oscillators: Strings, Brass, Organ

Memory: None

Filter: 2 VCF's (brass/strings) Hi/Low/Bandpass

VCA: Level and Panning for each instrument

Keyboard: 49 keys

Arpeg/Seq: No

Control: None

Manual

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