This keyboard is having an issue with 1 of the voices. Each of the 8 voices has OSC1, OSC2 and Noise, and one of the 8 is just outputting OSC1 and Noise. Everything else works. That means if you use it with dual oscillator patches every eighth note only produces 1 of the 2 oscillators. Has no real effect on single oscillator patches or Unison patches (which are huge). Works great as a drum sampler (I’m including some of my vinyl drum samples and other ones on disk).

This is a Straylight Engineering modded DSS-1 with 16mb of RAM. This was done by Straylight himself (I bought the keydoard with mod installed from him) and has a multi input Floppy Drive replacement that takes SD cards, floppies and other formats. It has analog filters and a great stereo delay with 2 LFOs to modulate the delay time. Of course it is a 8 voice 12-bit sampler and can do the whole DW-6000 and DW-8000 thing as well as scratch that S-950 crunchy drums itch. It even has a setting to reduce the bit rate by single bits all the way to 6-bit! Multistage envelopes, 3 LFOs, autobend (and portamento on the Straylight version). The modded version holds up to 64 Multisounds at a time and up to 16mb. Also, the dual digital delays can each be modulated by 2 dedicated LFOs so you can get stereo chorus or flanger style effects or massive dual delays which all save the settings per patch! This has tons of the factory sample disks on the internal USB thumb drive as well as custom disks I sell. Includes about 15 disks including 2 of my custom disks I sell.


Please reach out and ask me any questions about my huge and heavy baby that I am reluctantly selling.

I am in North Bay and willing to travel up to 100 miles to meetup somewhere. I can shoot videos showing the unit operating as well. Thanks for looking.

Listed8 months ago
ConditionFair (Used)
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Brand
Model
  • DSS-1 61-Key Digital Sampling Synthesizer
Finish
  • Black
Categories
Year
  • 1980s
Made In
  • United States
Number of Keys
  • 61 Keys
MIDI I/O
  • MIDI Through
  • MIDI Input
  • MIDI Output
Polyphony
  • 8 Voices
Key Size
  • Full Size
Analog / Digital
  • Digital

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