MOOG 16 Channel Vocoder

images via this auction via derma_tek on the forum.

SERIAL No. MBVO 1084

Roland TR-808 Modded by Robin Whittle

images via this auction, via Gustavo.
"Robin Whittle modifications / extra features :
1. In addition to the original memory, two banks of 10 memory units
(ie. 20 times the original memory).
2. 4 levels of volume accent (rather than the original 2) each one with volume control giving you much more dynamic feel. There are LED's that flash during playback to indicate what accents apply to each beat.
3. Individual tone control for both the toms and the hand clap. This means you can vary the toms from being a dull thump to a sharp crackle.
4. Three phono jack sound inputs to replace the sound generators for the toms, white noise and the cymbals. The drum settings for these channels act as a gate for the input sound so for instance, you could feed in another sound such as a sound effect, musical chord or voices and program the 808 instrument to gate that incoming sound. There is some post filtering so the input sound takes on some of the drum's original character.
5. 3 x trim pots for adjusting the pitch of toms, white noise and cymbals.
6. Multipin input for a touch sensitive drum pad set to drive the 808's sounds manually. (pads not included).
6. Individual damper switches for the three toms - left = short, right = long.
7. Soft reset button - resets the computer without the need to power the whole machine down.
8. Two more toggle switches that I can't remember the function for.
Though there was no instruction manual for the Robin Whittle mods, I have prepared some illustrated notes to help you get the most out of this 808.

It is otherwise as manufactured, and has not been MIDI retrofitted. If you wanted this feature, I believe it can be done reasonably easily and I found this URL for an 808 MIDI retrofit that looks very well priced ... and also another one in England."

Namm Show Analog Synths - Analogue Haven

YouTube via ellewebb.
"The giant collection of synths at Analogue Haven at the 2007 NAMM Show." Note this is 2007, not 2008. Winder NAMM 2008 starts this Thursday, January 17. If you are going, be sure to drop by the Analogue Haven booth. There will be a tiny MATRIXSYNTH presence, or should I say "present," there. And when I say tiny, I do mean tiny. : ) Seriously, nothing big, but if you are a fan of the site, drop by the booth and ask.

Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus + Juno-60 + TR-606

YouTube via retrosound72

"short demo track by RetroSound. analog strings/ human voice choir: Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus sub-bass: Roland Juno-60, arpeggiator is triggered by the TR-606 drums: Roland TR-606 hand-played, no external effects used"

analog synthesizers EMS stuff

YouTube via emssynthi100. EMS Synthi 100
This video is a short 9 seconds, so just think of it more as an image.

EMS VCS3 Sequencer

via this auction via panorama on the forum.

"this is a very rare original ems vcs3 sequencer called the ks sequencer. it is the same as the aks sequencer but it has black,white touch keys and it is in a wooden case because it was ment to be used with the vcs3. it was bought from a studio in germany. it is tested and it is fully working. the cosmetic condition is almost mint."

Punct uit.

flickr by lastplak_artworks

full size

MFOS Sequecer

flickr by sduck409. click for more shots of the inside.

The Green Waldorf Microwave

images via this auction. I forget how many of these were made, but they were an official limited release Microwave by Waldorf.

New Metasonix is a Guitar Amp

More info on Muff Wiggler.

Synthasonic

Synthsonic, is a new synthesizer company that will be offering high quality frac modules.

Note that the site literally just went live at midnight PST. The first module listed is the 4 Pole LP Filter based on the Music From Outer Space filter.

"The company website will also host free product manuals and videos which will provide tutorials about modular synthesis, so it will hopefully serve the entire modular synth community, not just Synthasonic customers."

Bliptronic3000

YouTube via peterdbennett.
"Interactive art installation at the Big Blip digital art festival '06, Brighton, UK. Users influence the movement of the virtual swarm through the use of two pucks moved across the tabletop."
Note this is not Reactable per the label below. I'm labeling similar tech with it for now. Same applies to monome for some posts. The idea is if you are interested in either and click on the label you will get similar posts so you can see and compare the different technologies available.

1983 commercial - Yamaha PortaSound Keyboard

YouTube via OofusTwillip.
"Commercial (Canadian, I think) for Yamaha PortaSound electronic keyboards. This commercial ran a lot on CBLT channel 5 (CBC Toronto)."

briefcase modular with ribbon controller

YouTube via ouijafeet.
"This is a demo my ribbon controller playing three Moogerfoogers: the Freq Box, low pass filter, and the ring modulator. Despite the fact that the ribbon controller is passive powered, in conjunction with the Freq Box, it is able to trigger the envelope of the LPF. For more info on th ribbon controller, check out:" this auction. You might recognize it from this post.

Korg X3 - Floppy Drive Solution

YouTube via rhomis
"A keyboard with a broken floppy drive can still be used! This tutorial shows how to send and receive all DATA to, and from, the Korg X3 without ever using the floppy drive. An nice expensive piece of equipment that came with the crappiest feature ever.... Bye-bye SLOPPY DRIVE!"

NAMM: Radikal Teknologies Hybrid Elements

Not much info up on the Radikal site except for this image. Click it for the full size. You can find an even bigger pdf here via jesse.

BOSS Dr. Pad DRP-1 and DRP-2

DRP-1 images via this auction

Details
"MAKE: BOSS Dr. Pad
MODEL: DRP-1

FEATURES:
Great sounding Vintage Drum Synthesizer with six preset sounds ( snare drum, snare drum 2, tambourine, hand clap, cymbal, and timpani) and adjustable settings for Time-Sweep-Range, Decay, Pitch Sens and Pitch.
The Rear panel has controls for level and sensitivity. 3 Standard quarter-inch jacks provided Output, Trigger and Mix.
The output jack is also the off on control which turns the unit on when the jack is inserted."

DRP-2 images via this auction

Details:
"FEATURES:
Great sounding Vintage Drum Synthesizer with six preset sounds ( bass drum, bass drum 2, E. Tom, Steel Drum, Gong-S, and Star Chime) and adjustable settings for Time-Sweep-Range, Decay, Pitch Sens and Pitch.
The Rear panel has controls for level and sensitivity. 3 Standard quarter-inch jacks provided Output, Trigger and Mix.
The output jack is also the off on control which turns the unit on when the jack is inserted."

Update via bestonline323 in the comments:
"you can find an amazing sample at http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/d_machines/drpad1.html I love this thing it is practically my baby. Seriously. Great post!"

Roland PG-200

images via this auction

"Roland PG 200 synth programmer from 1983 or so. This is used to program the Roland JX-3P and MKS-30 synthesizers, and the GR-700 guitar synth."

AELITA

images via this auction

"Synth was made in 80's years in USSR. It is soviet version of the famous minimoog synth. Synthesizer has very original "transformer" design with removing main operation panel. Synth looks very industrial and military, like the soviet secret weapon.

Aelita has three oscillators with square, pulse and saw waveforms.There is LFO with triangle,square,saw and ramp waveforms.Every oscillator can be independently detuned in one octave range. We have possibilities in any chord playing here.You can switch oscillators from 32' to 2' registers.Every oscillator has it's own level slider in mixer section.Oscillator's pitch can be modulated by LFO and first oscillator can be modulated by third oscillator.Than we have moog type 24db lowpass filter with screaming resonanse.Filter has it's own ADS envelope, keyboard tracking and can be modulated by LFO.VCA has ADS envelope with release switch. There is unussual unison mode when you can get signal of all oscillators in 4 registers in one time. Aelita is fat sounding synth with quite unique sound due to original soviet analog circuitry and electronic components.

Dimensions: 870x330x170mm. Weight: 20kg. (packed synth)."

Demos:
aelita1.mp3
aelita2.mp3
aelita3.mp3
aelita4.mp3"

Gleeman Pentaphonic Demo Cassette

via this auction

"This is an original DEMO cassette for the amazing synthesizer: the Gleeman Pentaphonic. Which was a cool RARE 5-voice synth with some advanced features and cool digi waveforms thru analog processing. Amazing sound and even cooler when in the CLEAR case some came in. This will likely be the BEST Gleeman demo cassette you ever find. Go for it!"

NAMM: OS Version 2.7 For Virus TI

"The new OS version includes a new control centre application for Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Using the stand alone application users can overwrite the ROM patches of their Viruses with their own sounds and perform complete memory backups for safety reasons and archiving.

OS 2.7 furthermore increases the amount of audio streams from the TI into the Virus Control plug-in by 50% and adds input side chaining capabilities. This way, users can send audio from the host sequencer into the Virus' sound engine all digitally, process it with the TI's filters and FX and finally loop it back into the sequencer."

and The Atomizer
"Access Music shows a technology preview of Atomizer on the winter NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Atomizer allows you slice and dice audio in realtime using a MIDI keyboard. Stutter effects were made famous by artists including Aphex Twin, Trentemoeller, Squarepusher, BT and many others. In order to create those effects they either had to chop audio regions by hand or use semi-automatic plug-ins (which don't necessarily give you a great deal of control since they are intended to create random results). Atomizer works in a totally different way — once sync'ed to tempo you can play those slices in realtime, so you can virtually chop up your singer's voice while he's performing or add unique effects to your DJ set. You can record the slicing process into your sequencer and edit it later along with the rest of your song. You can remix in realtime as well, with the modulation wheel becoming an intelligent cross-fader, while the pitch-wheel lets you change the pitch by approximately 4 octaves. And there are tons of effects including sample rate and bit rate reduction algorithms which, again, can be used in realtime and become a part of your performance."

via HC here and here.

Europa 2.0 for the Roland Jupiter-6

"What features are new to Version 2.0?

# Expanded Patch Memory
Version 2.0 increases the internal patch and preset storage by 6 times, to a total of 288 patches and 192 presets. Each bank of 48 patches and 32 presets is accessible via the front panel or a standard MIDI Bank Select message. The upper and lower splits can use patches from different banks if desired.

# Multiple Undo function for Patch Editing
Unwanted changes to patches can be undone at the push of a button. Up to 127 button presses, 84 slider moves, or some intermediate combination of the two can be undone or redone, until a patch is saved or a new patch is selected.

# Layer Mode
Layer mode allows the upper and lower patches to be played from the keyboard at the same time, while being edited individually or simultaneously. In Layer mode, the lower synth has 2 voices,and the upper 4 voices.

# Keyboard Transpose
Version 2.0 allows the upper & lower splits to be transposed independently. Held arpeggios can be transposed on the fly for many creative performance possibilities.

# Support for Midi Song Position Pointer
The arpeggiator will start at the beginning of the next measure when a song position pointer message is received."

More info here. If you are not familiar with Europa for the Jupiter-6, in a nutshell it is an upgrade that offers full extensive MIDI control for the Jupiter-6 and more. via J.