This potentially wonderful instrument is silent at the moment. We have had it here for two years or so, but time has run out and it needs to go to another person who can finish off the process of getting it 100% again. STOP PRESS: the great French tech J-B Emond says that he would be very willing to work on this. He told Pascal at Spheremusic that he did a lot or repairs for the same type of Acxel Resynthesizer owned by Jean-Michel Jarre and he knows everything about it and even still has some spares that could be used to repair this one. He said it is a really difficult piece of technology and he spent a lot of time to understand how it was built in order to repair Jarre's. VEMIA could get it shipped to him on a pallet pretty simply and economically.
This one at VEMIA had power supply and disk drive issues. We have replaced the disk drive with an HxC drive, which contains everything that was on the floppies. Most of the OS floppies seem to have been corrupt or non-functioning. There is more work that needs to be done to the power supply / supplies. Both supplies are switchable 110/240V. The gas struts which should support the Grapher at an angle have given up holding up anything, and need to be replaced.
Cosmetically there is one superficial scratch above the Grapher's LED matrix, and the Solitary case front is not in brilliant cosmetic order.
It is serial number 990-0004-151. As there were apparently less than 40 of these made, I'm not sure why it has a long serial number. It has its original manual, original floppy disks in a case, the stunningly solid (military-grade?) custom flightcase, and the redundant (faulty) disk drive.
We believe this version is a Studio System, with eight voices (all with individual outs) and including the all-important Acxelizer for control and creation of voices.
There is some good info online. For instance EMEAPP published this great rundown: https://emeapp.org/2019/11/19/the-technos-acxel-resynthesizer/
Palletising: 60GBP.
