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I'll fill in what little more I know about this synth: It is here - the only Con Brio sold. It was the second unit they built (there was an earlier ADS100 unit that was cannibalized to make this). When this one was sold to composer/arranger David Campbell (Beck's father!), they built one more unit - it was never sold. One later unit was tried - a slightly portable unit with single detachable keyboard. Again, no market. Unfortunately, the designers felt that sampling and waveform drawing were not important to such a powerful synth engine... Fairlight and Synclavier did, and this won over the customers. For pure synthesis, the Con Brio is vastly superior to the cuncurrent Fairlight and Synclav synths. As an example, imagine the 6-operator DX7 algorithm - the Con Brio allows 256 operators in ANY configuration. The designers tried to incorporate a button or switch for each of the most common functions of the synth. They disliked jumping through "pages" and layers of menus. When she was inspecting it, Wendy Carlos declared it the most sensible human interface yet seen on a digital synth: No matter what "section" you work on, the relevant controls will light up! For example, when in the sequencing mode, all the sequence-related buttons light and all the sound-editing functions go dark. The designers tried to incorporate a button or switch for each of the most common functions of the synth. They disliked jumping through "pages" and layers of menus. One amazing feature not usually noted; the ConBrio has 4 channels of analog CV and Gate "outs" on the back, allowing you to easily and nicely interface to any analog systems from the ConBrio's sequencer or keyboard.
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