formant - the elektor synthesizer

Visitors to last year`s Hi-Fi exhibition in Duesseldorf, W-Germany, will have noticed something special on the Elektor stand: the first public demon- stration of the Elektor synthesizer. The photo`s will give some idea of what it looks like: a keyboard and a fair-sized box covered with knobs and patch- cords. It is more difficult to give an impression of the soul)ds coming out of the `Formant`. A reasonably skilled musician (or should we say `operator`?) can produce any number of radically different sounds, creating a totally new , musical `experience`. Suffice it to say that the Formant has the same capa- bilities as a medium-sized commercial synthesizer - at a considerably lower cost.