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Description	The Opus-3 is one great little synth. It was designed by Herbert A. Deutsch from Hofstra University who originally nudged Dr. Robert Moog into building synthesizers and later served as director of sales & marketing for Moog Music. Herb also wrote the owner's manual. The sounds are broken up into 3 categories: Strings, Brass and Organ. Strings and Brass have their own separate VCF (filter) sections, the Organ section has none. The Opus-3 also has 2 sound outputs for an early stereo effect with panning! It's a colorful little synth with clearly laid out sliders and is fairly straight forward. It has classic analog Moog sound quality and is a great source of some string and lower octave techno-organ sounds. The Opus-3 has a built in chorus effect which allows the user to run the string and organ section through. t also has stereo outputs which allow for stereo panning of each instrument.
Brand	Moog
Model	Opus-3
Device	Synth
Type	Keys
Engine Type	Analog
Engine	VCO
Voices (max)	49
Oscillators	3
Engine Detailed	Vco for Strings, Brass, Organ
Filter (VCF)	2 VCF's (brass/strings) Hi/Low/Band pass
Envelope (VCA)	Level and Panning for each instrument
FX	Chorus
Keys	49
Key type	Keys
Velocity	No
Aftertouch	No
Produced:	1980 - 1980

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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