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"Over 50 volumes of vintage, rare, and landmark drum machines that narrate the history of this modern instrument—from the inception of this invention to relevant contemporary devices—this collection covers any and all electronic rhythm needs and sonic character.

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Virtual Drum Machines Online

In via AH. Wow, check out this list! I can't wait to check these out. There are also a few virtual keyboards including The Rheem Kee Bass, Technosaurus Microcon, and the Mattell Bee Gees Rhythm Machines. Bee Gees. Woot! ; )

List of drum machines:
Boss DR-55
Univox Microrhythmer
Electro-Harmonix Rhyth
Wurlitzer Swing Rhythm 5020
Maestro Rhythm MRQ-1
Oberheim DX
Roland TR-33
Roland TR-330
Seeburg Rhythm Prince
Yamaha MR-10
MXR Computer Rhythm 185
M.P.C. The KIT
Bos CR-110
Korg Mini Pops 35
CONN Min-O-Matic
Electro-Harmonix DRM-16
Electro-Harmonix DRM-15
EMU E-Drum
Rhythm Box Tronix
Rhythm Box Austin
ELI Computer Rhythm CR-7030
Boss DR. PAD (DPR-I)
Boss DR. PAD (DPR-II)
Boss Dr. PAD (DPR-III)
Suzuki RPM-40
Roland TR-66 Rhythm Machine
Siel MDP-40
Seeburg Select-A-Rhythm
Roland PB-3000 Rhythm Plus
Electro-Harmonix Space Drum
Synsonics drums by Mattel
Boss DR-220a
Univox Microrhythmer 8
Boss DR-220e
Yamaha EM-90a
Roland TR-55

Roland Rhythm 330

No title link, just his shot pulled via this auction.

Details: "Here we have a Roland TR-330 vintage analog drum machine, featuring a built in speaker. The TR-330 is the second most RARE of the TR series, with the TR-770 being the most rare."

Here's a virtual TR-330 that you can play right now.

Roland Museum Germany Massive Synthesizer Selloff - Most Gear for Sale in a Single Auction

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This one in via Marko of Retrosound.de.

26.000,00 Euro gets it all.

via this auction

Someone needs to contact the Guiness Book of World Records. Longest list of gear for sale ever:

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Synamiitti 2015

Published on Sep 6, 2015 Petri Kauppi

"Turun syntetisaattoriseuran Synamiitti 2015"

Video from this year's Synamiitti synth event in Finland.

Some details on the event via http://synamiitti.com for the archives:

"12:00-18:00 Synamiitti, Loads of synths on display
The Daytime event is free of charge and the bar is open.
Päivätapahtuma on ilmainen ja Dynamossa on A-oikeudet.
AFTERPARTY
21:00-02:00 Live performances by:
RONSKIBIITTI (21:30)
MR VELCRO FASTENER (22:30)
visuals by:
VJ TURU SANOMA
Ovet/doors 21.00, liput/tickets 6e, ennakot/advance 8raita & Ticted
The Afterparty is presented by: TELMU & Turun Syntetisaattoriseura

ON DISPLAY / PETTING ZOO

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Roland TR-330 Rhythm Drum Synth

via this auction

"Identifed as Roland model TR-330. A little internet research tells me that this analog drum machine was first produced in 1973. Rhythms produced by the machine are: Waltz, Slow Rock, Rock Beat, Bossa Nova, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Beguine, Rhumba, March, and Swing.

A nice review with lots of information about the Roland TR-330 can be found at the following link"

SN 424052

Roland's AIRA Officially Unveiled - Massive Pic Gallery, Details, Videos

AIRA — Artists make first contact with AIRA

Published on Feb 13, 2014 RolandChannel·835 videos

"Groundbreaking artists talk about their experiences with Roland instruments and make first contact with the AIRA gear. Artists appearing are: Arthur Baker, Ricardo Villalobos, A Guy Called Gerald, Rain Man, Netsky, Oscar Burnside, Boys Noize, Dr Meaker, Hardfloor, John Heckle, Hisashi Saito, and Akkord."

This post might take a bit to load. :)

Update3: You can find a write-up on Novamusik here.

Update2: You can find comments and discussion on this post on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge here. I also added a page break for this post on the main site so it doesn't slow the site down for new posts. Click the "Click for more" link to get to the full post.

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Roland TR-330 Rhythm 330

Roland Rhythm 330 up for auction via Loscha: "Quite similar to the TR-77 (Roland_TR-77-SERV.pdf I got those schematics from burnkit2600's site, thanks to him and whoever scanned them in originally).

It's a big, wooden veneer cased organ top plonker with loads of bass and great analog latiny percussion - claves and such. I've got them tuned to sustain a bit longer than manufacturer intended, but, this is changeable on the voicing board on some trimmers.

The voice board also has a "Snappy" control which goes from very mellow to quite outrageously distorted and over-rides the rest of circuit to fizziness.

I live in Melbourne, Australia. The going rate seems to be between 300-450 Australian for these. Am asking for $350 Australian. Am not a greedy man. Based on units that have sold lately on ebay and privately, it seems this is the 2nd rarest TR drum machine, after perhaps the 77. No-one had sound samples online, which is something. I'm hoping to rectify, and to eventually make a more complete recording of the patterns at all tempi, etc.

I've made a modification to the unit which was needed and unobtrusive. The Metronome switch only had one function in real life; To convert "Swing" into "Metronome". I have used some spare terminals on this as a speaker cut switch. The only way you can hear metronome is through both the speaker and the output jack, in all other patches, the Metronome Off/On switch mutes the speaker. The speaker is quite loud, and pumps a lot of air (big old oval speaker). This allows you to hear the pure sound of the unit through your amp/ effects/ compressor/ Funk-A-Duck or whatever else you have.

If anyone has the service manual or schematic, I'd be indebted if they'd email me a copy or a link to it, also.

The front of the case. The damage on the top left of the machine is that the veneer has been pushed back and has creased a little bit, over a slight dent in the wood.

Front of machine is to the left. Big Speaker in the back. Power supply regulation board to the left. Transformer to the right. In the front we have the clock and divide down board. This is almost identical to the TR77 board, as above. The switching logic is below the metal plane everything is resting on. This is made up of diodes and such attached to the multi-pole switches. No roms are used, it's all discrete logic.

The Sound Board and obverse of Sequence Logic Board. You can see the trimmers here. The one on the top left all on it's own is "Snappy". The three on their own row are all kick drum related (tune, resonance of circuit, and mix volume). The kick is very useful. It sounds like an 808, with lots of sine-boom. It doesn't have a percussive attack noise burst like a 909. The other trimmers are tune and resonance and pitch for the tuned percussion (Claves, Toms). In my sound examples, I have the decays set quite long, mostly just before the point of resonance, as I was using it for slower pieces most recently. The circuit slides out of the wooden sleeve with 4 screws on the bottom.

I'm certain that the rubber feet on bottom of unit are not original, they are "chocolate" (square, beveled) kind, not round ones as I would imagine would have been.

A few last notes:
The tempo light only triggers on the first beat of the bar. It is red. A globe in a red filtered bezel, not an LED, although you could put a 5mm UV LED in there if you wanted, I think it might fit. In fact, I'm happy to throw one in if you want to try it. I've tried to get the tempo calibrated roughly to the markings on the front panel, however, there are 2 adjusters on the clock board, you can make it go uselessly fast if you so wish. A simple turn of the trimmer.

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-AllBeats.mp3
Quickly cycling through all patterns from left to right. About 2 bars of each.

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-Transitions.mp3
Slowly turning the balance knob from left to right, on "Mambo".

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-MamboSwingStack.mp3
First Mambo, then Swing, then both of them stacked on top of each other. You can depress multiple buttons for combinatorial sounds.

it's got switchable line voltage around the back along with Audio out and the Start/Stop Footswitch jack -- ."

Moby's Drum Machines For Sale

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Update: some pics and details captured. I made the mistake of trying to capture them all and then realized how many were listed. :) I ended up switching to the more esoteric models. Quite a few have never been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH before. What's a little bit interesting, is only two new labels were needed, one for Domino and one for Side-Kick-Er. All other brands have been featured before. See the labels at the bottom of this post. Side note: Blogger limits the number of characters to 200 for labels, so I wasn't able to capture them all for this post. You can always search for the brand names featured for more. I assume most do this anyway. The labels are more for maintenance and for finding posts that may not feature brand names in descriptions.

Pictured:

Realistic Concertmate Electronic Accompanist-Metronome

"Fully analog rhythmic companion utilizing 5 beat buttons to combine how you wish. Features metronome, speaker and line out, and tempo control.

Serial: 42-2103. Works with no issue."

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Vintage Synth Scans

Click here for pdf scans of various synth brochures and articles. I tried to list all models below. Apologies for the long list but if you are searching for this stuff via your favorite search engine, this is the only way it'll come up, and finding that oddball rare scan can be absolute gold.


Roland
JX-8P and PG-800, JX-3P and PG-200, Jupiter-6, Juno-106, Synth Plus-60 (HS-60), SH-101 and MGS-1, EP-50, MPU-101, MPU-103, TR-707. TR-909, TR-606, TB-303, CR-8000, CR-5000, SBX-80, MSQ-100, MSQ-700, JSQ-60, BOSS Dr. Rhythm DR220A and DR-220E, Alpha-DRUM DDR-30/PD-10/PD-20, Alpha Juno-1 and Alpha Juno-2, DEP-5, DG CMU-810 Compu Synth, Juno-106, Juno-6, Super JX JX-10, MKS-100, MKS-50, MKS-7, MKS-70, SBX-80, SDE-3000/1000/2000, TR-505, Octapad PAD-8, TR-727, Jupiter-8, MC-8, System 700, CPE-800, VCA-800, System 100M, System 100, Jupiter-4, Promars, SH-2, SH-09, CSQ-600, CSQ-100, SH-1, SH-5, SH-2000, SH-7, SH-3A, SH-1000, VP-330, RS-09, RS-505, SA-09, SIP-300, SIP-301, SPA-240, SPA-120, SPV-355, SVC-350, SBF-325, SDD-320, SPH-323, SMX-880, SRE-555, RE-502, DC-30, DC-20, CR-78, CR-68, TR-66, MKB-1000, MKS-30, MKB-300, MKS-10, MKS-80, MPG-80, JX-3P, MC-4, MM-4, MC-202, MIDI-DCB, MTR-100, CV Interface, Piano Plus-400 HP-400, Piano Plus-300 HP-300, RE-150, RE-501, RT-1L, MPU-104, MPU-105, Cube-100 (CK-100), Cube-60 (CK-60), Cube-40 (CK-40), KS-2, KS05, KS-6, KS-11, KS-1000, TB Series Carrying cases, PSA AC Adapters, KS-1100, SC series soft cases, AB series resin-molded cases, MR-1, RH-10, DP-2/6, FS-1/2/3, M-16C/64C, BR-2/3, RD-1000, MKS-20, MKB-200

Yamaha (note the documentation adds the - in the descriptions. So you CS70M in the title, but CS-70M in the body). I thought that was interesting.
CP-30, CP-20, GS-1, CP-10, CP-11, CS-70M, CS-40M, CS-20M, MQ802, CP-80, SK-50D, SK-15, CS-15D, CE-20, CS-01, CS-15, CS-5, SK-30, SK-20, SK-15, SK-10, GS-2, CE-20, MA-10, MM-10, MH-10, KS-50, KS-100, E1005, E1010, MQ802, CP-80, CP-70B, CP-35, CP-25.

Korg
PS-3300, PS-3200, PS-3100, PS-3010, PS-3040, PS-3050, PS-3001, VC-10, MS-10, MS-20, MS-50, SQ-10, MS-03, MS-02, MS-01, 800DV, 700S, 900PS, M-500SP, PE-2000, PE-1000, KA-180, FK-3, FK-1, V-C-F, Mr. Multi, SE-500, SE-300, EM-570, SP-2035, SM-20, Mini Pops 120W 120P, Mini Pops 7, Mini Pops 45, Mini Pops 35, Mini Pops Junior, Korg Quartz, WT-10A, GT-6, RT-10,

Vintage Synth Story - magazine scans
Crumar DS2, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, RSF Kobol, Roland TB-303 and TR-606, TR-808, PPG Wave Computer, PPG Wave 2, Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar, EMS Polyvoks, Oberheim OB-X, Octave-Plateau Voyetra Eight, EMS Polysynthi, Moog Minimoog, LinnDrum, Korg PS-3100, Korg MS20, EMS Synthi AKS, ELKA Synthex, ARP Sequencer, ARP Quadra, Korg Polysix, Korg PS-3200, Moog System 3P, Korg Trident mkII, Moog Liberation, Memormoog, Mutron Bi-phase, Oberheim 2 Voix, Oberheim Xpander, PPG Wave 2.3, Roland CR-78, Roland VP-330, RSF PolyKobol, Moog 960 and 961, Sequential Circuits Prophet 10, Vox Super Continental, Yamaha CS-15, ARP, Chroma, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks, EMS Vocoder 5000, E-MU Drumulator, Korg Story, Yamaha CS70M, Korg, Synton Syrinx, Roland MC-4, Oberheim 6 voix, Simmons SDS V, Simmons SDS.3, PolyKobol RSF, Keyboards Synthe Story Part 1 and Part 2.

Roland Tr 330 Analog Beatbox

via this auction

Googlish translation:
"The Rhythm 330 is the fourth drum machine made by Roland in 1973. As besonderheit there is a built-in amplifier and speakers to the side. The sound is about how one knows him of old radios - very soft and nice punchy. Of course there is also a line-out. The balance control can be insipid height between low and back and forth. Simultaneously, the hihat is very left and the bass drum quite muted law. it is possible to select several rhythms to create new patterns."

KORG monotribe X8 - FIRECRACKER / BakaOscillator

Published on Feb 24, 2013

"Composed by Martin Denny.
Use, KORG monotribe 8, SDD-1000, Doepfer Schaltwerk.
Full CV/Gate controlled."

monotribes on eBay

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