SEMtex XL
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.

You kids know about this thing? From Anyware Instruments of Germany, this is a 2-VCO patchable analog, in the same neck of the woods as an Oberheim SEM module (hence the name, I suppose.) It has a whole slew of MIDI->CV stuff, and doesn’t sound half bad, according to the samples on the website.
It is apparently 1200€, and I’m pretty sure I could get at least one real SEM for that, but then what do I know? Vishay pots, Neutrik & Switchcraft connectors, and there is at least one in actual existence.
UPDATE: one of the creators of this critter wrote to tell me the following: “uhm, the semtex is not a “SEM”, it is more a modular system based on a SEM plus lots of things.. like
the semtex has 2 Vcos plus 2 Subs and 3 very fast envs..
(the SEM has no subOSCs, the semtex has 2 of them)“ Apologies, but I call ’em like I see ’em. A two-vco tabletop synth with the name “semtex” is gonna be compared to a SEM module by a lot more people than me.
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