1979 Roland Vocoder Plus VP-330 Vintage Analog Synthesizer & String Ensemble w/ MIDI Mod

Up for sale, a 1979 Roland Vocoder Plus VP-330 in excellent condition and in perfect working order. Only offered from 1979-80, this VP-330 has been given a thorough checkup by our techs here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, and all features and functions work as intended. This particular VP-330 has also been cleanly modded with the VP330-KBD MIDI interface. Artists from Phil Collins to The Cars to Vangelis have found utility in the warm analog sounds of the VP-330, which are based on a three oscillator circuit. Combining a paraphonic ten band vocoder and string machine (which also features some unique synthetic choir voices), the mere presence of a conventional keyboard on the VP-330 put it ahead of its vocoder contemporaries. A user of the VP-330 has only to plug in a microphone (via standard 1/4" or XLR) and their voice can be synthesized for all manner of vocoder-related shenanigans. In addition to vocoding and string ensemble sounds, the VP-330 can also play four different choir sounds, each of which uses four bandpass filters, shared from the same pool of seven total. Like Roland's other string machines of the era, such as the RS-202, it features a BBD-based ensemble effect that thickens the strings, and optionally the choirs and vocoder. The keys are level with sparingly little aging, and the orange and white graphics are in excellent shape. All original knobs and slider caps are intact, and the wood paneling framing the VP-330 shows only a few very minor nicks and scuffs.