***First impressions: it is indeed an early Kenton MIDI kit in there. It now works, but has to be set up each time you power the System 700 on. https://www.kentonuk.com/kitdocpdf/old_mono.pdf At the moment the power switch is loose, some sliders are iffy at the extreme ends of their travel, and the dual concentric pots on the VCOs are a bit too tight, so if you turn the fine tune knob without holding the coarse it can turn the coarse as well. ***We will deal with these small issues before delivering to the winning bidder.***

I think it should probably have been described as near mint, because apart from a small scratch on the VCO1 front panel near the waveform selector we can see hardly a mark in the very detailed photos. Even the metalware looks great - and even on the lid, which is yet more unusual. ***In our rush to get this published - it is pretty special - we missed out what the owner had said: 'The 700 lab is a standard configuration with one nifty addition (modified by previous owner): the patch bay in the bottom left accepts trigger and cv inputs via the top 2 jacks and then routes them throughout the unit, so the envelopes trigger, the cv goes to all 'key cvs'. It's not hard to patch this manually but it saves you some cables. (It will come with a decent amount of cables anyway.) Also I used to own two system 700 wings and this lab unit acted as the master using the original Roland interface/cables on the back of each panel. Otherwise it is a super simple modular synth which is quite like an arp2600 in the selection of modules & routing, but with a lot of modulation possibilities (things like delay and sync on the lfo) and the main thing is just how rich it sounds. Plus really snappy envelopes makes it great for making percussion samples.'***