What can I say? As a Hitachi employee I wanted to get Hitachi’s only ever synthesizer, the exceedingly rare Lo-D (as in ‘low distortion’) HMS-30. It took many years of checking Yahoo! Auctions Japan to finally get one. It’s fully polyphonic (each key!), all analog oscillators and filters, with a rhythm accompaniment and digital programming panel I never truly figured out. I think if this were modified in such a way to increase the depth of the modulation it would be even more crazy, but I didn’t go down that rabbit hole. The fake wood sides are coming off in a few parts, see the pictures. This is a weird, rare chapter in synth history.
Demonstration by the talented Daniel:
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