Description | The EMS Vocoder 3000 was built and released by EMS Rehberg. EMS Rehberg is a German company that was licensed to manufacture and sell EMS products. The Vocoder 3000 has 16 filter bands each with a flexible new feature of individual control knobs for making separate settings for each filter band. It's other features are largely the same as the Vocoder 2000 The filter types are Bandpass, High Pass and Low pass.
The single oscillator is a pulse VCO that is the same design of oscillators available in other EMS synthesizers. Noise is also an audio source for mixing in with the oscillator or external audio sources.
4 available mic/line inputs are available on the front panel for inputing voice/audio plus 2 additional XLR inputs on the rear panel along with an XLR output. There are also two 1/4" outputs for pan and swell on the rear panel that are the same as on the Vocoder 2000. |
| Brand | Electronic Music Studios (EMS) |
| Model | Vocoder 3000 |
| Device | Misc |
| Type | Rack |
| Engine Type | Vocoder |
| Engine | Vocoder |
| Oscillators | 1 |
| Noise | Y |
| Engine Detailed | 16-band vocoder. White noise generator and pulse oscillator (0-1 khz). Both may be gated by the voiced/unvoiced detector. Oscillator frequency fixed or amplitude modulated. |
| Filter (VCF) | FILTERBANK: 16 Filters - 14 x 6th order active bandpass. 1 X lowpass, 1 x highpass. 16 Envelope followers and modulators. |
| Controllers | Slew / Freeze |
| Keys | 0 |
| Key type | N/A |
| Velocity | N/A |
| Aftertouch | N/A |
| Audio | 1/4 inch input for Speech and Excitation sound sources |
| Extra info | individual level controls for each band and newer knobs & switches on the front panel, plus a new LED signal meter |
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Produced: | 1987 - 1989 |
| Legend: |
Obvious |
Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable |
| VCO |
Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
DCO |
Digital Controlled Oscillator |
| LFO |
Low Frequency Oscillator |
Sub |
Sub Oscillator |
| VCF |
Voltage Controlled Filter |
VCA |
Voltage Controlled Amplifier |
| Velocity |
As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. |
Aftertouch |
Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel. |
| Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise. |
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