MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, October 26, 2005


Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Yamaha CS50 Synth Shots

Title link takes you to some nice shots of the Yamaha CS50 from Heath who also has it up for sale in the Boston area. More below including a Polymoog up for sale as well.



For local pick up only:

--Yamaha CS-50: It's in excellent shape, tolex is great, Lid,
everything works great. -$450. This is less than I paid for it.

Pictures: http://www.heathfinnie.com/cs.htm

--Moog Polymoog 203A with stand and polypedal. - $450

I'd say 95% functional. Which is very high given the polymoog's
history ;) I don't want to sell it, but I need to make room asap.
Serial number is 3811.

It comes with the polypedal and original stand. It's in great cosmetic
condition. The only issues with it are a few keys sit a little higher
due to needing new bushings, but they all work. It also needs one
voice card as the last note on the synth does not work quite right.
All slider caps are present. Also the attack/keyboard dynamics need to
be calibrated, but it still works fine.

For pictures I'm going to link to my Craigslist ad:

http://boston.craigslist.org/msg/106650611.html

I need to sell these ASAP which is why I'm lowering the prices. If
you're interested in both I'd sell both together for $850. I'm really
looking to sell in the next day or two. Again these are too big to
ship.

It actually does happen?

Update: And it was for real. : ) The seller speaks via Music Thing.

Roland TB-303 sold with a buy it now for... $150. : ) Real or scam? You be the judge.



From the auction:
"This unit is the best bass player you will ever play with! Roland's computer controlled unit to add incredible bass lines to any song. Play bass lines on the unit separately, or midi link unit to your keyboard and control from there. This unit has keyboard type of front panel to literally program in the bass lines part by part. It has a 4 track section pattern group, write or play modes, wave form setting, midi patch bay. Setting include tuning, cutoff frequency, residence, envelope modulation, decay and accent. It has tempo and volume controls, time mode, tap control, headphone out, cv out, gate out, output and a 9 volt dc jack. Flawless, mint condition, in the original wrapping and box for 23 years! It comes with original owners manual and warranty registration card. It also incudes an instrument cable. Manufactured in Japan by the original Roland Company! MSRP $395.00"

Specdrum

Via MusicThing. Title link takes you to the Analog Industries site with some samples and thoughts on the piece. Make sure to check out the Music Thing link for more info on what it is.

SCI Remote Prophet

The Remote Prophet was a Keytar MIDI controller from Sequential Circuits. It did not produce any sound and was meant to hook up to your Prophet 5 for remote keytar action. Title link takes you to two shots. You can find more info at SynthMuseum.com .

Various Synth Demos

Another "post a demo of your synth" post on VSE. These are great because you get to hear what a given synth is capable of without other synths in the mix.

CMS Modular

Just a nice CMS Modular shot that came up in my random picture viewer.

More Minimi Madness

Minimi123, aka 123synthland, that is. Title link takes you to his hord of gear for sale. Sheesh. Hopefully he will still be around when I have that kind of cash to burn. The one good thing about premium priced dealer gear is you can usually be relatively sure you will get what you pay for. Now if I can only convince minimi to give me this Oberheim FVS for plugging his auctions... ; ) I'll be the first to let you know if it ever happens.

Moog Song Producer

Update: Interesting comment in from Bohus Blahut:
"These aren't actually rare at all. I've seen them on Ebay dozens of times. I think that I got mine for $30 a few years back. I haven't used it yet (know how that feels?), but it is an amazing package. The thing that wouod make it even more amazing is if Moog had ever come out with the device mentioned in the manual; an analog sound module. How hip would that be?"

That would be pretty hip. : )

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Interesting bit of gear up on the *bay. Title link takes you the auction pictures saved for posterity. I found this via the C64 Blog. Pretty interesting piece.



Notes from the auction:
A super-rare Moog Song Producer MIDI and Trigger interface for the Commodore 64, with sequencing and MIDI-processing software. The Moog Song Producer boasts:

· 1 MIDI in

· 1 MIDI thru

· 4 (!) MIDI outs

· 8 drum trigger outs

· 2 Footswitch ins

· 1 Clock/sync in

· 1 Clock/sync out

Wow! That means the Song Producer’s capable of interfacing your MIDI and pre-MIDI gear. What’s most amazing about this package, though, is that it’s mint in box. Just check out the photos. It comes complete, with:

· Song Producer hardware interface

· Connection cable (it plugs into the Commodore 64’s expansion port)

· Ring-bound manual with software disk

· Original warranty card

· Technical service information leaflet (includes schematic, picture of circuit-board layout and complete parts-list)

· Quick-start/introductory guide

· Service-locations poster/leaflet

· Original quality-control slip (yes, it passed!)

In its condition (immaculate), the Moog Song Producer simply makes a great piece of memorabilia (as one person said: “I cannot imagine anything with a higher coolness factor: Something for the Commodore 64 with the Moog logo.”), but I used it with its supplied software. Perhaps most excitingly, though, is the possibility that – with the detailed technical information included – a competent C64 programmer could use it to control the C64’s SID chip through MIDI, as it just runs on a stock Commodore with a stock interface (the cartridge – ‘expansion’ – port).

Accentor Tool 1

At first I thought this provided the accent along with the distortion, but I beleive it's only distortion. If anyone knows please feel free to comment. It is a damn good distortion I must say. Rumor has it was designed to specifically give that 303 sound. Title link takes you to more including video and samples.

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