MATRIXSYNTH

at 12/17/2006 08:09:00 PM

No title link. Just the shot pulled via this auction. I haven't seen this one before.

via brian comnes.

at 12/17/2006 07:42:00 PM

YouTube via milla202. Inspired by this thread on VSE. So is it a Roland SH-09, SH-2 or actually an RS-09? Although he's playing more than one note at a time in the vid, which would default to the RS-09, I'm seeing the SH-09 based on the knob placement. What the hell is it with people playing chords on monophonic synths?

at 12/17/2006 05:11:00 PM

YouTube via gearwire. Via Music Thing. Tom of Music Thing says Gearwire is like Wayne's World for synths. I didn't make that connection until now. Funny! : ) You can see more of their videos here. You be the judge. Regardless, good stuff. Here's the Vocoder video they refer to.

at 12/17/2006 05:04:00 PM

See if you can guess what this one is. ; )

via Greg.

Update: Alex got it right in the comments. It's an ornament.

at 12/17/2006 04:49:00 PM

"DIY synth AMS-16 and drums ADS-8 presents www.enmusic.by.ru"

YouTube via enginmusic. Sent my way via frederic.

Update: I sent an email to AH asking if anyone had more info on these. The following are the replies:
Florian

"The Drumsynth reminds to a tama TS305/306 series.
The Monosynth is according to a link in the kyrillian text an adaption of Ray Wilsons Soundlab Minisynth and the sequencer is derived from Thorsten Kloses software projects."

Synth Ollie:
"the drumsynth is based om some old e&mm diy-syndrum articles, synbal and syntom II"

at 12/17/2006 04:25:00 PM

Remember these posts featuring Plexus and his PAiA 4700 modular? Title link takes you to a new page featuring tons more.

This one via Plexus,Tor Olav, and Cynthia.

at 12/17/2006 04:00:00 PM

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Note this Synergy is not working.

Details: "The Synergy II+ is famous as the synthesizer that Wendy Carlos used on the legendary recording "TRON" [actually it might have been the GDS according to this] and "Beauty in the Beast", the Synergy took place of Wendys Moog modular system on these recordings. The Synergy is a Phase Modulation/Additive synthesizer. Phase Modulation is similar to FM found on the popular synthesizers like the Synclavier and Yamaha DX instraments synths however the Synergy has FAR more settings and tones when it comes to crafting the ultimate in synthesized music.
The Phase Modulation algorithms are user defined with up to 16 oscillators available.
The envelopes have up to 16 stages/per osc, and are loopable.
Program/sounds consists of 2 'boundaries' which are 2 separate timbres.
The keyboardist can morph between these timbres via velocity and key number.
Voice allocation is highly advanced, allowing for very complex keyboard splits/layers/voice cycling.
There are many advanced features on the DK SYNERGY II that have never been equaled or surpassed in other synthesizers of the era. The DK SYNERGY II synthesizer originally retailed for around Six Thousand 6$K and the adittional kaypro II computer to accompany it around Thirteen hunderd dollars $1.3K."

Sent my way via Matt.

at 12/17/2006 03:00:00 PM

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

at 12/17/2006 02:49:00 PM

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

According to the auction this is serial number 1. Some Details: "The Vocoder 1000 is a 16 band model and has great intelligibility, along with a lot of cool features like adjustable and VC slew rate/shape with freeze input, pause stuffing from either input with adjustable release time, built-in oscillator, etc. In short, this is a serious big-league vocoder... not quite a Sennheiser, big Synton or EMS 5000, but definitely far beyond the Roland/Korg/MAM league.

Before listing, I did a few Google searches on this model and there's not a lot of information other than Jarre using one in 1978. The owner's manual is dated at 1984 and has a picture of an older 1000 with a disclaimer that "the photo of the Vocoder 1000 on the following page differs slightly from the unit which you have, although the two units are electronically identical." It goes on to describe the differences (added features, better HF response, jacks in different places) and then goes on to say "FOR VOCODER 2000, PLEASE READ VOCODER 1000" and then the rest of the manual refers to it as the Vocoder 2000. So my theory is that the 1000 was originally released in 1978, there was a second revision (of which this is serial #1) was released in 1984 after Robin Wood took over, and the Vocoder 1000 and 2000 are the same with minor panel differences (and added stuff on the 1000 Rev 2). Please note that I'm just guessing here, but all the info I can find seems to back that up. I can find nowhere that authoritatively discusses the differences between the 1000 and 2000 (except for a post by myself on a mailing list archive, so hardly authoritative) and the manual refers to them interchangably."

If you know more, feel free to comment.

at 12/17/2006 02:28:00 PM

Title link takes you to a post with more info and images in German on Synthesizerforum.de. You can find a Google translated version in English here.

Features:
- Saw <-> pulse cross fade
- manual PW-attitude
- PWM over Env.
- PWM over key Tracking
- PWM over specially LFO
- LFO with trichloroethylene, Sin, pulse
- LFO speed of approx. 0,5Hz until far into the audio range possible (do not have I yet completely exactly fixed)
- LFO symmetry automatic controllers (Saw e.g. makes from trichloroethylene)
- Connection with the Rogue over parallel haven cable (no parallel interface Sign )

Via sequencer.de.