Aelita (synthesizer)
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Sometimes refered to as the Murom Aelita, the Aelita synthesizer is a monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured in the Soviet Union in the 1980s[1].
History
Manufacturing started in 1980 at the Murom radio plant[2]. The electronics was revised in 1986, but the features remained the same.
Features
It has 44 keys (F to C), 3 oscillators with 3 fixed waveshapes and ring modulation (a 4th oscillator is activated in "unison" mode), a low-pass filter (12dB/octave with resonance), one LFO and two envelope generators, all arranged in a fixed architecture[1][3][4]. It has a maximum range of 7.5 octaves[1]. It is monophonic, meaning that it can play only one note at a time[2][5].
It has two special modes: the "unison" mode creates an unison-like effect on each oscillator (reducing the range as a tradeoff), and the "strings" mode creates a vibrato effect independent of the LFO[3].
Although of a sturdier construction, it lacks several features commonly found on American and Japanese brand synthesizers in that decade, such as : portamento, velocity response, memory, and MIDI implementation[5][6].
It has a dark aluminum body[5], big distinctive colored plastic sliders and round buttons, and full-sized plastic keys[2]. Its upper control panel can swivel over the keyboard, thus protecting the switches and sliders and preventing accidental settings changes during transportation, and changing the general shape of the instrument to one that is not playable but more transportable.
Character
Its sonic qualities have been consistently qualified as "fat"[2][3][4][5][6], "agressive"[4][5] and "impressive"[4][5], both at the time and recently.
References
- ^ a b c "Museum of Soviet synthesizers". www.ruskeys.net. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
- ^ a b c d Moogulator, Mic Irmer,. "Murom Aelita Analog Synthesizer". www.sequencer.de. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c "Russian Vintage Synthesizers". Oocities (Geocities archives). Retrieved 2018-10-23.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c d "Aelita 3-VCO rare vintage Soviet analog synthesizer". www.matrixsynth.com. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g "AELITA Monophonic Synthesizer". Encyclotronic. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
- ^ a b "Aelita, Queen of the Soviet Analog Synthesizers". Retro Thing. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
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