Moog Moogerfoogers - New Flickr Shot

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Update: Click through the link for a shot of the BOSS DR-110 in the set.

Korg History CD

I was searching for more info on the Korg Donca-matic and ran into this. Interesting; I never saw this before. At $99 it seems a little pricey, but who knows...

"Big Fish Audio - History Of Korg (Akai)

History of Korg is an arsenal of original Korg Synths, organs and drum machines with a programming staff that knows how to get the best out of them. CX3, PS-3100/3200, PE-2000, M-500SP, Sigma, Lamda, Trident, VC-10 vocoder, MS-20, Mono/Poly, Poly-Six, Poly-61, Poly-800, DW-8000 and DD1/5, KRP-77, KR55B, Donca Matic and Stage Man drum machines."

Which Rhythm Ace started it all?

Update: The Korg Donca Matic DA-20 circa 1963, predates the Rhythm Ace by a year. Thanks 100M for pointing out the Donca Matic in the comments for this post. : )

I was reading about the history of Rebirth at http://www.rebirthmuseum.com. They have a good piece starting with Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi. In 1964 he presented the Ace Electronics Rhythm Ace at his first US tradeshow. Was this the first groove box? : ) Soon after he formed Roland Corporation, and was directly responsible for the Roland TB303, TR808, and TR909.

I found some shots of the Rhythm Ace on Audio Playground's Synth Museum. Two are pictured below. Anyone know which was the first model and which was presented by Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi all those years ago?

Fac makes a synth

Via Sonic State's, The Gas Station. Click through for the thread and bigger pictures. Click here for a nice little MP3 of it. Sounds like a synthy mellotron to start.

MOTM - New Flickr Shot

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Closeup of the MOTM.

Moog Etherwave Pro Theremin - New Flickr Shot

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Beautiful closeup shot of the Moog Etherwave Pro Theremin.

Various Synth Samples - FDISKC.COM

I was poking around Brandon Daniel's FDISK.COM after posting his Serge VCS demo below, and I found a bunch of other goodies including samples.

Instruments include:

ARP 2600
Korg MS20
Oasys PCI
Roland TR606
Akai ASQ10
Korg ER1
Roland SH101
Moog Minimoog

This picture, also from his site, is now my desktop wallpaper.

Serge VCS

In via AH. Brandon Daniel just got a Searge VCS. Click here for a sample. He gave me the go ahead to post this. Thanks Brandon!

"My Bananalogue Serge VCS module arrived yesterday.

I don't have any real experience with actual Serge panels, so I can't
really compare it with a DSG, but the short impression is that this thing
rocks.

It seems most useful to me as a lin/log shaper or an LFO or EG with
lin/log shaping. I doubt I'll be using it as a simple slew much, it would
be a waste!

It's modulating the frequency of the model 15 osc and the lowpass/vca of a
doepfer lpg. All the various shapes of the modulation you're hearing are
coming in via external modulation of the slopes, and as you can hear it
happily heads into audio rates.

-Brandon"

http://www.bananalogue.com/vcs.html