MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, December 18, 2005


Sunday, December 18, 2005

TB-303 Package

No title link. I recently posted on the Roland TB-303 Bass Line Chordwheel. echo7even of The Electric Music Box sent the following shot of a TB-303 and all accessories. You can see the chordwheel in the shot. Sounds like he got a killer deal on this package as well. One man's garbage is another's prize. Lucky man.



"HI Matrix,

I just posted a comment about the 303 Chordwheel.. I have all the 303 Accessories.. the guy I bought it from bought it in 1983, brought it home,, HATED it and stashed it in his closet.. I found out about it several years ago but just bought it from him recently.. pretty much brand new.

attached is a pic. the pattern sheets I got arent pictured. he found them in his stack of old synth brochures.

-r"

Roland SH-101 Remake - Holiday Synth Project

Interesting holiday project. Mush has decided to use some of this holiday time to create a new case for his SH-101. The case will be solid oak with a new face-plate. Title link takes you to the thread on VSE with more info and pics. Can't wait to see how this turns out.

The Ambient Ping - Analogue Oil Projectors and Synths

Interesting discussion going on AH regarding analogue oil projectors. David Evans posted a link to "The Ambient Ping." Some amazing visuals. Title link takes you there.

Mystery Modular

Lester Barnes posted this on AH asking if anyone on the list knows what it is. If you do, please share. Title link takes you to more shots.



"From what I've worked out the thing has 6 VCOs with various features, 3
VCA, Noise/S+H, 3EGs with toggles for speed, 2 filters: one is Low pass or band pass with subtle cutoff slope and doesn't self oscillate with reso at max the other is a multimode but without Resonance. It also has a 3 input sum mixer, VC Reverb, VC Echo - with 3 separate echo return times and controls. VC Vowel Filter - Bloody Lovely, Equalizer, inverter Divider, Counter clock. It has a two manual keyboard each with a joystick and the cabinet has two separate keyboard control sections as well as a basic CPU ? There seems to be an input for 'GUIT' guitar ? and a din input marked 'Micro 15'

Patches are made on a 60 x 60 patch matrix and there are ten output faders as destinations on the row E - 5 for Left and 5 for Right -

The most unusual thing and the thing I haven't sussed out yet is the functions of the Sequencer: Its a 3 x 10 analogue sequencer. rows A+B are clocked together but row C can travel at any subdivision of the upper rows clock speed. As you'll see in Picture 3 on the link, at the far right of the cabinet are 4 groups of 4 controls - each group has a Left and Right control and two dials above - - in picture 4 you'll see another 10x10 patch matrix which has something to do with the 10 stages of the the sequencer and L+R outputs of each of these groups of four dial named GC,CY, CC,B and 58 - putting a patch pin into column 4 row 1 produces a beep clocked every time the sequencer passes stage 4 but altering the the voltage on that stage of the sequencer has no effect on the beep. One of the unknown controls above the L+R of GC alters the gate time of the beep - the other seems to alter the pitch - I have no idea what this is for. Row CY has a multi-step dial and toggles .. . ?"

Roland TB-303 Bass Line Chrodwheel

Now this is something I've never seen before. A chordwheel for the TB-303. Title link takes you to the acution for this. Image and text saved below for when the auction dissapears. Click the image for a larger version.



"The ULTIMATE TB-303 rarity!!

I've not seen one of these for sale on ebay before. This particular one stayed behind when the original Roland TB-303 Bass Line (bought for around £100 from London Rock shop) was sold on in 1985 for £50! It has spent the last 20 years packed away in some music equipment documents.

This is the one to have to complete your set.

The top rarity, rarer than the TB-303 pattern data sheets that Roland issued at the time.

Go for it!"

Korg EX-mas Shot and Sample

Thought this was a nice X-mas shot of a Korg EX-800 (desktop Poly-800) up for sale. Title link takes you to an mp3 posted in the auction. As usual, I have no affiliation, just like the shot.

Carbon111 on Analog Industries Gear P*rn Friday

Title link takes you to Analog Industries post. Cool to see Carbon111 featured.

Synth Books

No title link. With the recent book posts for Essential Retro and Real World Digital Audio, I thought I should put up a list of synth books. A friend of mine joined the Amazon affiliate program and started putting up book ads in posts where he reviewed the particular book. I actually liked the look of the ads because they include a small snapshot of the book. So, I figure why not. I joined and added a few of my favorites to the right pane (just scroll down and look for the books on the right). I also found one I hadn't heard of before called "Quick Guide to Analog Synthesis." Anyone know if this one is any good?

BTW, if you know of any others I should add to the list on the right, please post them in the comments below and I'll put them up. I checked Amazon for A-Z of Analog Synthesis but surprisingly it wasn't there. BTW, I don't want to limit the list to just ads, so if you have any links for synth books not on Amazon or other, send them my way. I just think it would be cool to have a list of all synth books on the right. And yes the Amazon ones are ads, no trickery there on my part. And obviously, if you are interested in picking up one or more of these books, feel free to support my site by ordering through one of these links. : )

Update via Peter Forrest in the comments below : )
"Hi all - very nice to be a toilet stalwart! I'm Peter Forrest, writer of the A-Z books. Sorry, but Amazon demanded such a ridiculous price to stock my books that I won't do it through them. Luckily you can buy them direct through me if you want :o) The easiest way is to email me at pforrest@vemia.co.uk, and I'll send you the details. I also still have some copies of the Synthesizer Museum books (and videos if anyone wants a nice retro original vintage 90s etc. etc. version of Bob Moog's speech and a bunch of incredible synths)."
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