MATRIXSYNTH

at 12/21/2005 08:12:00 AM

Moog Bode Frequency shifter on the bay. Title link takes you to shots saved for posterity.

"Serial number 1001. According to www.moogarchives.com, this unit was originally purchased by Walter Sear in 1968. We acquired it through a VEMIA auction in 1998.

Overall condition is excellent, and all the electrolytic capacitors were replaced two years ago."

at 12/21/2005 12:05:00 AM

Update: Via the comments, "Stephan Bernsee wasn't a Hartmann programmer btw. he's the founder and former CTO of Prosoniq (http://www.prosoniq.com)"

And from Stephan Bernsee himself, on Moogulator:
"I used to work for Prosoniq who licensed the Neuron synthesis technology to Hartmann) and the company OSXTools has no affiliation with Hartmann, nor will it be a successor of that company or provide any support for the Hartmann range of products.

I thought this might be useful information - btw. you can find a very active forum for user-to-user support for the Hartmann range of products at http://www.surroundsfx.com/forum/ "

Title link takes you to OSXTools, a new company by Stephen Bernsee. New products will come in 2006. Note the design style in the image to the left. I can't wait to see what they bring to the table.

"OSXTools' founder and CTO, Stephan Bernsee, is the creator of many innovative products you may know or use, such as the (now discontinued) sonicWORX audio editing software, the Prosoniq range of plug ins including the OrangeVocoder, Prosoniq morph and Magenta and the basic technology behind the Hartmann Music synthesizer. He has developed the Timefactory time stretching products for Prosoniq which are used in almost all of todays major software products such as Cubase, Nuendo, Cakewalk, Pyramix and many more. He has recently developed a new time stretching/pitch shifting technology called DIRAC, now used to guarantee unprecedented quality DSP processing in the Smoke and Fire products of Discreet/Autodesk and upcoming products from other companies."

Via Moogulator's machinesound.

at 12/21/2005 12:04:00 AM

Liked the following groovy shot of the Omega 8 manual and silver Omega 8. Title link takes you to a bigger shot of the below and the rest from this auction. Some blurry, but so is life at times. ; )

at 12/21/2005 12:03:00 AM

Roland SH-101 in "pristine museum quality" via this post on VSE. Title link takes you to the shots saved for posterity. At first I thought there was a smudge on the synth and wondered about the "pristine museum quality," but then I realised it was the cammera.