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    E-Mu Systems SSM Voice Board Pictures

    E-Mu Systems SSM Voice Board

    Above The SSM (Solid State Music) Voice board by E-mu Systems from 1978

    On this SSM Voice board

    - Two SSM 2030 VCO chips- Oscillator

    - One SSM 2040 VCF chip- Filter

    - One SSM 2020 Dual VCA chip - Amplifier

    - Two SSM 2050 VCTG Envelope chips

    - Built in power supply

    - 100 pin interface

    - 6 inch by 7 inch dimensions

    This SSM chip set is the same one used in the original Sequential Prophet 5 released in 1978

    More information on SSM and E-mu here

    http://synthark.org/Archive/EmulatorArchive/SSM.html

    At top a SSM 2040 Filter Chip and a SSM 2020 VCA, and at the bottom Two SSM 2030 Oscillator Chips

    Filter section with temperature compensating resistor to left of 2040 and op-amps for input and control

    Two SSM 2050 VCTG chips. Board date  4/24/78. Odd numbered connectors on top

    Bottom of E-Mu Systems SSM Voice Board

    E-mu Systems SSM Voice Board Information and Schematics

    Silicon Breakdown posted in 2008 all the information for the E-mu SSM Chip Voice Board

    in dedication to Ed Rudnick. A great boss and a greater friend.

    Ed Rudnick drew up these schematics in April 1978. They were designed by Dave Rossum.

    More info on Ed here

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