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Electronic Music Laboratories ElectroComp 500
Analogue monosynth, 1973–1984. Analogue subtractive: two VCOs into a 12 dB/oct multimode filter and VCA, built around op-amps rather than discrete transistors. A low-cost performance synth with a 'science lab' character unlike Moog or ARP; Devo used it for the whip sound on Whip It.
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- Freedom of Choice
Devo · Album, 1980
- Synthesisers · InstrumentReportedJournalist says it created the whipping sounds on Whip It.
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An analogue-modelling synth that can be set up as a two-oscillator monosynth with a 12 dB multimode filter like this one; it is not a model of this unit.
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