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Pioneer DJ TORAIZ AS-1

Monophonic Analog Synthesizer

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Pioneer DJ TORAIZ AS-1
Pioneer DJ TORAIZ AS-1
600.00 street price

This mono synthesizer had every chance to become a bestseller. The reason is simple - it is assembled by a well-known Japanese company producing audio-video equipment with the same components that are used in the Prophet-6 which is Dave Smith Instruments top synthesizer. AS-1 became the second in the line of Toraiz along with SP-16 sampler, which was also created in collaboration with the legendary American synth maker (Dave Smith was responsible for the analog filter technology, also taken from Prophet-6).

In fact, AS-1 is an “extracted” from Profit-6 voice enclosed in a compact keyboardless housing. At the same time, the famous low and high pass filters are kept the way they were, there is an envelope processor, a chain of effects and, which is important, a sequencer and an arpeggiator.

Of course, AS-1 is, in some way, a tribute to the fashion of recent years for analog synthesizers and the fight back to competitors - KORG monologue and Novation Bass Station II. On the other hand, AS-1 is an entrance ticket to the world of classical sounds of the famous Prophet at an attractive price. If earlier many of us could only watch the video about Prophet-6 and dream that “the day I will buy it will come”, now this day became 5 times closer – that’s the price difference between Prophet-6 and Pioneer DJ AS-1.

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Usage area
Sound Module/ Tone Generator 
Usage Design/ Form Factor
Without Keys, Desktop 
Archetype
Analogue (A) 
Polyphony
Monophonic 
Multi Timbral Capacity
Monotimbral 
Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis
Synthesis Method Analog Subtractive
Oscillators overall2
Oscillator Type VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator)
Oscillators per voice2
Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) Square
Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) Triangle
Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) Saw
Programs/ Voices/ Timbres
Single Voice Preset495
Filter
Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF) 
High-pass Filter (HPF) 
Low-pass Filter (LPF) 
2-pole 
4-pole 
Resonance 
Envelope Generator (EG)
AD 
AR 
Modulation
LFO: LFO Count1
Effects
Chorus 
Delay 
Phaser 
Distortion 
Ring Modulation 
Sequencer
Step Sequencer 
Max Events Count64
Arpegiator/ Portamento
Arpegiator Mode Latch
Arpegiator 
Portamento 
MIDI
General MIDI (GM) 
MIDI in/ out
IN 
OUT 
Display
Display type OLED
Built-in controllers
Ribbon Controller1
Audio out
Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm)2
Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) headphones preamplified1
Computer Interfaces
USB USB PC Link
USB MIDI through USB
Power
Power Supply External
Amperage1.5 A
Dimensions
Height68.6 mm
Width267.4 mm
Depth177.7 mm
Weight1.4 kg
Color
Black 
Production start2017

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