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Technics SX-U90P

1981

You can love it or hate this design of the "professional" version of the U90. It is quite impressive and one of the widest organs - but electronically the same spinet organ as the standard U90.

Here at Tim Seifert's home page you can find a great description of all her functions, that I won't repeat now. Additionally my small impressions:

• Rock solid, after 25 years everything works fine. This might be the reason why it is so difficult to find a service manual - because it is almost not needed

• nearly no noise at the outputs!

• the sine filters are not of the expensive type, you can still hear the rectangle generator as the basis. Technics used only 3 sets of sine filters per tab, the higher tabs (<2') even have got only a single filter.

• the upper manual has 7 divisions which can sound in parallel, which makes a big sound, (the lower: 5 divisions).

• I counted 5 Phaser/Celeste/Chorus divisions which can work in parallel also. The Leslie imitation is unfortunately rubbish.

• the drum machine sounds funny. Own rhythms are easy to arrange, even with preset patters. I like the rhythms variations and the accomp. voices (filter gating!)