How do you rate the condition of your gear?

Interesting thread came up on AH regarding common guidelines for rating the condition of used gear. A link was posted on guidelines. I thought I'd share. Title link takes you there.

Curetronic Modular

Update: Some video in via AH. Right click and save.

Yowsa! Title link takes you there. Check out the fotogalerie.

Find the smiley face sticker. : )

New Buchla 200e Modules

In via Joxer on AH. I swore I saw the 261e Complex Wave Generator before, but the AH archives come up drive. Maybe it was one of my synth dreams... Anywho. Enjoy.

Complex Wave Generator
261e - http://www.buchla.com/200e/261e.html


Quad Control Voltage Processor
256e - http://www.buchla.com/200e/256e.html

DIY 8 Step Analog CV Sequencer

Just a hop, skip and a beat away. Title link takes you to GetLoFi. GetLoFi takes you to Experimentalists Anonymous, the makers of this device. Enjoy. I like the sleak design of this unit.

Requiem for Bob Moog - by THM

Via Vintage Synth Explorer, via Future Producers. Beautiful track. Title link takes you to the post on Future Producers. Link to MP3 is the first post on the thread.

Some details from post:

"Hi, well this is probably my first full track you see on FP - I made it as a kind of hommage to Dr. MOOG - using my own Memorymoog in a pretty long synth solo at the end of the track.

Since 15 years I've been making especially trance (last years hard trance & epic trance), but lately I wanted to take some new paths and so I started experimenting with ambient kind of stuff.
Driven by the death of Bob MOOG and the Doepfer MAQ16/3 I bought last month (for easy looping sequences) I *finally* ended my first track.
Like I said it's a kind of ambient meets MOOG lead, composition and sounds almost completely maid with my own vintage analog hardware (see description below).

FYI:

* fx sounds: MOOG Memorymoog L.A.M.M., Elka Synthex, Roland Juno-60, Roland Jupiter-8, Roland JP-8080, Yamaha CS-50
* piano: Kurzweil PC88
* background choir: samples (Spectrasonics "Symphony Of Voices")
* phased chord strings (at the beginning and end of the track): Roland Jupiter-8 with heavy phaser fx
* phased solo string (in the middle of the track): Yamaha CS-50 (with slight phaser fx)
* bassdrum (with heavy reverb and fx): Roland TR-808
* drum sequence: Arturia MOOG Modular V
* lead sequence: MOOG Memorymoog (driven by my Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer)
* subbass: MOOG Memorymoog
* bass: MOOG Memorymoog

and not to forget:

* solo lead: MOOG Memorymoog L.A.M.M. - played live in one session; no MIDI trickery added (I know there are a few small glitches but nevermind)


I hope you'll enjoy it (it's a pretty long track) & please give some comments - good or bad (as long as it is constructive)."

Synth1

Thought I put up a post on Synth1 already, but I guess not. I mentioned Synth1 as being one of the best free VSTs out there in my previous post on the Superwave P8. Title link takes you there. It's one of my favorite VSTi. What amazes me is back when I first got into synths, I had to save up nearly a year and a half to get my Matrix-6 at roughly $1300 in 1986 dollars. Today you can get hundreds of synths for free. You need a PC and good midi/audio interface to get going, but wow, once you get past that, the potential vs. cost is amazingly slanted towards potential. Awesome times...

Superwave P8 - Free VSTi

Sounds like this free VSTi is worth checking out. Some posts on Vintage Synth Explorer call it out as one of the best free VSTis out there. It apparently does a great job at the Roland JP8000 supersaw. Synth1 also gets a nod. I have Synth1 and it is amazing. Going to check out Superwave P8 this weekend.

Another Track from Heath Finnie

Via Vintage Synth Explorer. Track included an Arp 2600, Alesis Andromeda and Minimoog. I love his music. The base line and feel reminds me of my favorite local Seattle band, Juno.

A/DA STD-1

Analog, Knobs, STD. That's STD as in Stereo Tapped Delay. I haven't seen this before, but I'm pretty inept when it comes to effects. Inside joke for a couple of people out there that know this. : ) This unit recently came up for sale on AH. Title link takes you to two shots, one a bigger version of the below, and the other the flip side or second page listing control functions, rear panel functions and specifications.

Yamaha CS15 on the *bay

Title link takes you to more shots saved for posterity. Click here for the auction. I have no affiliation with the auction, just grabbing the shots before they are lost to the ether. Where do those electrons go anyway? It's all voodoo I tell ya...