Vox Jaguar
DiscontinuedReleased 1966
The budget Continental: same case, but four rocker-tab presets (Flute, Bright, Brass, Mellow) instead of drawbars and a single key contact fed with pre-mixed footages, so it is brighter and more lopsided across the range. The switchable bass octave is monophonic with its own output. Italian-made throughout, and the organ behind OMD's early singles.
Specifications
General
- Manufacturer
- Vox
- Status
- Discontinued
- Released
- 1966
Keyboard
- Manuals
- 1
- Keys per manual
- 49
- Key action
- Waterfall
- Keybed
- 49 keys (C to C): reverse-colour treble with a normal-coloured 12-note bass octave; unweighted spring-return organ keys, one contact per key
Sound
- Drawbars
- Tab switches
- Sound engine
- Transistor top-octave divider organ; each key contact carries a fixed mix of two to four footages that changes octave by octave
- Organ models
- Voice tabs: Flute, Bright, Brass, Mellow; Contour knob (V304/E2 onwards); monophonic 12-note bass section with low-note priority and a Bass Chords switch
- Polyphony
- Full polyphony (bass octave monophonic)
Connections
- Outputs
- Separate bass output
- Pedal inputs
- Expression
Features
- Features
- Rocker-tab voices, Monophonic sub-octave bass, Bass Chords, Vibrato, Contour tone control (later models), Also sold as a Heathkit (TO-68)
Size & weight
- Colours
- Red, Grey
Heard on
Artists and records that used it, as Vox tells it.
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, “Electricity”, “Messages”, “Enola Gay”