Rare EDP WASP Vintage Analogue Synthesizer. Used by: Hardfloor, Orbital, Ozric Tentacles, BT, Jean-Michel Jarre, Asia, Ultravox, Stevie Wonder. Only 2,000 OSCar synths were ever produced. Legendary monosynth from Oxford Synthesiser Company, and one of the most advanced programmable monosynths of its time. If you are interested in buying and are not in the U.K. Ive just had it fully serviced for sale by Jim McKenna at The Singing Cat at a cost of £165. Featured a proprietary control that predated MIDI and allowed users to connect Gnat to other Gnats, Wasps and EDP gear. I intend to fit a WASP MIDI interface, this will be internally fitted and using one of the 7 DIN sockets, the other 7 Pin DIN socket will now be redundant. I've put a couple of useful links here, one for a fairly comprehensive article by Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle is here and another link for the complete WASP service manual is here thanks to Laurie Biddulph. I have made a Flight Case for this instrument, although I don't know why I bothered, I never take it out of my studio. I did notice that if the keyboard sensitivity pot is adjusted wrongly, the synth just doesn't make a sound at all, maybe that was one reason they were unreliable, and the other maybe that due to the low cost of these synth's, that some people that bought them didn't understand how they worked, the user manual supplied with the instrument was very basic. The downside was reliability, there was a rumour that the basement in Macari's Keyboard Shop in Denmark Street was full of dead Wasp's, shame that no one gave me a ring, I'd have fixed the little blighters. When hooked up to a decent sound system, the sound is astounding. and even a MIDI type system for linking more than one Wasp together.

dedicated to Modulation, Noise Generator, Random Voltage Generator, Portamento, Pitch Bend. Which is remarkable, in such a low priced synth (£199.00 in 1980's). The filter although not able to self-oscillate (just), is switchable between Low (LP), Band (BP) and High Pass (HP). The synth is often thought of as a toy, but it is surprisingly well designed, with many features that most classic synth's could benefit from, the electronics uses standard CMOS IC's. The now defunct company was founded by Adrian Wagner, most of the initial electronic design was done by Stephen Evans, then helped by Chris Huggett, who later went on to design and produce the EDP OSCar. Electronic Dream Plant Ltd first started production of the Wasp in 1978 and continued into the early 1980's, about 3500 were produced in total, the company was based in Oxfordshire, the full address was, Red Gables, Stonesfield Road, Combe, OX7 2ER.

Edp wasp for sale