Vermona Piano-strings demo

Just trying to let you hear some sounds coming from this wonderful string machine, coming out of Germany in the late seventies. No external effect is used in this recording. What you hear is just the sound coming out of the keyboard Of course this video is not about my playing non-skills. Also, the video gets out of sync soon, I&do better in the next videos. A brief description of the keyboard: It has two sections: "percussion" and "strings" . Each has three sliders controlling respectively piano,clavichord,spinet levels and cello, viola and violin levels. Unlike other similiar machines of the time, the three sounds of each section are not entirely different sounds, but are rather three different global eq&of the same basic sound , this means that these sliders do actually work as a three band equalizer for the basic percussion and strings sounds. Only one of the sections can be active at a time. The basic underlying sound is the same for both sections. They differ in the envelope of the sound: "percussions" decay soon, even holding down the key, and the decay time is to be set by the "sustain" slider(here the sustain slider acts as the decay control of a classic ADSR generator). The toggle switch "sustain long" enables the sound of the "percussion" section to decay more smoothly while the key is depressed, and to decay completely only after the release of the key (this turns in fact the sustain control into the release control of a classic ADSR envelope generator). On the...