GeneralMusic (GEM) S2R Rack Synth

For sale: Fully functional GeneralMusic S2R Music Processor Rack Synth with owners manual and one original floppy disk. It has been maintained in a non-smoking environment. Everything works (including the floppy drive) and LCD is bright and clear. Very few scuffs or signs of wear on the synth unit itself.

The S2R Music Processor is a digital synthesizer workstation with 6 MB of sampled waveforms as the basis for the oscillators which are processed through two Variable Filters and a programmable envelope. The S2R came standard with 2 MB of sample ram and the "Turbo" feature which allows sample data to be loaded from floppy disk without having to be converted on a computer first.

Features

• 32-note polyphonic 
  
• Two oscillators per voice which can use one or two of the 209 waveforms included in ROM or any of the multisamples loaded into RAM. 
  
• Two 12 dB/Oct. resonant filters per voice which can be independently set as: Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Parameter Cut, or Parameter Boost. (If the setting on both filters is exactly the same, they work as one 24dB/Oct. filter.)
  
• Three 10-segment envelopes (Amp, Filter, Pitch) with the ability to create a continuous loop on any portion of the envelope. 
  
• One LFO with Sine, Triangle, Saw, Square, Random and S&H shapes, and a Panorama function with its own additional envelope for stereo imaging.
  
• The sample edit function will read and edit samples in WAV, Akai and AIFF formats loaded in from DOS-formatted floppy disks
  
• All the basic editing functions of a sampler, including sample truncate, normalize, loop, etc., and can build a multisample from up to 16 single samples. Once the sample is created, it can be used in the same manner as any of the sounds from the ROM. 
  
• 2MB of RAM (volatile) dedicated for samples.
  
• Performance mode of up to 16 Sounds or Patches. There are 100 patches for Performances automatically loaded when the instrument is powered-up. 
  
• The effects section consists of two blocks. The first of them includes different Reverb and Hall effects and a few Reverb/Delay combination effects. The second block includes Choruses, Flangers, Rotary Speaker simulations and some Pitch/Delay combinations.
  
• The on-board Sequencer has up to 250,000 notes capacity, Quantization, Macro edit, Undo/Redo, Clipboard, Copy & Paste functions, and more. It can record all realtime controller movements including the polyphonic aftertouch and it can control two additional sound sources independently thanks to two independent MIDI interfaces. There is another 2MB of RAM dedicated for sequencer data. It can store 10 songs with 10 sequences per song. 
• It is a solid 19-inch, 4U rack-mount unit with multiple outputs for processing the sound. The unit also has buttons and a jog wheel for working and editing on the unit's 240x64 LCD screen. 

The last two pictures are of the actual unit and are taken from the original listing when I bought it some years ago from TechnoEmpire. Unfortunately when they sent it to me, it did NOT have the rack ears in their picture, so the unit comes with rack ears that I acquired (pictured). The left rack ear is a bit beat up, but fully functional. 

(Lastly, only the S2R unit featured in the photo is for sale of course. The K2000R and V-Synth stay with me.)  :)

About Shipping

Price quoted is to the continental US only. Alaska and Hawaii will be additional. I take the unit to UPS and have it professionally packed, insured, and shipped. This is a very heavy and substantial piece of equipment. The shipping price quoted reflects this.

About Me

This is my first auction on Reverb, but I have a long and 100% positive history on eBay (as 'gnapier3'). Feel free to check it out.