MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, July 17, 2006

Ode To Synthesizers

By Joshua Langberg via AH:

"Hello,
I had to write some poems for my poetry class. One had to be an ode, what do I owe more to than my synthesizers?! I hope some of you enjoy it:

Oscillators that stay in tune.
Filter sweeps will make girls swoon.
Black ebony, white ivory,
49, 61 and 88 key.

All made up of circuit boards,
if polyphonic you can play chords.
Special chips make you temperature stable,
unless of course, you have a wave-table.

Multiple envelopes contour the sound,
while distortion effects bring forth the hellhound.
Frequency modulation is the control,
that combines oscillator sounds, it can shake the soul.

With a keyboard or rack-mountable,
using a TRS or XLR cable.
Voltage controlled amplifier,
How you titillate my desire.

One can never have too many LFO’s,
they’ll sound like the engine of a UFO.
Blipps and bleeps, multimode filters squelching,
most are made in Tokyo, not Beijing.

Sample and hold, you turn my world to chaos,
random voltages you are the embodiment of Eros.

Waldorf, Quasimidi, Ensoniq, and Polyfusion,
you bring me out of dissolution.
Oberheim, Arp, E-MU, and Access,
give me the need to continually practice.
Moog, Roland, Korg, and Sequential,
you make the most of my potential."

Gugy's Synth Studio in Australia

More shots after the hop. Title link takes you there.

Roland Jupiter-8

MiniKorg 700 in Custom Case

Two shots of a Korg MiniKorg 700 in a custom case. Click here for shots on what they normally look like.

Title link takes you to the listing on Craigslist where I pulled these from - while it's up.

"guts of a Korg mini....in a custom case!"

Hawkind EMS Putney

If you have $6250 to spare, this one can be yours. : ) Title link takes you there. Shots saved here for posterity.

"This is a pre- Prestopatch unit. It is an earlier model that has had the power supply upgraded. It is autographed by Dave Brock of Hawkwind. VCO3 works,veneer, needs adjusting (if you want, I like this flaw). This is one of the most musical sounding VCS3 I have ever seen. Many sound like lab gear. The same is true with Minimoogs. That's why Alien Planetscapes and Hawkwind used this synth and kept it in the family."