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this auction"Up for auction is an extremely rare and vintage 360 Systems Digital Keyboard. It has recently been serviced. It has had all the keyboard bushing replaced with new properly lubricated bushings and the keyboard leveled. It has also had many of the capacitors in the analog signal path replaced. To my knowledge it functions 100%. It has factory installed MIDI, not retrofitted, and has been tested. It includes three PROM boards and 11 sounds. The sounds are as follows as best as I can describe them:
1. Piano - This sounds great. It has 48 PROM chips dedicated to just the piano so there is almost no "stretching" on the samples.
2. Mello Bass / Acoustic Guitar
3. Electric Guitar #1
4. Electric Guitar #2 (E to C)
5. Slap Bass 1 / Slap Bass 2
6. Rhodes
7. Oboe? / French Horn
8. Sax? / Trombone
9. Sax? (bottom octave is looped)
10. Alto Sax
11. Cello / Strings - When this sound is "doubled" it is very lush and very nice! Its best sound in my opinion.
The PROM chips are labled with the sound and chip number. They are described as follows:
1. PNO: 1-48
2. MSC2: 4-7
3. GIT7: 1-6
4. ?? (the labels came off): X4
5. FNK3: 1-8
6. RHO4: 1-4
7. HORN: 1-10
8. CEL: 1-20
9. VLN: 11-40
10. 12 Empty Slots + space for one additional PROM board for a total of 4.
The keyboard is 8 voice polyphonic and can be doubled or layered for 4 voice polyphony. The keyboard can be split and sounds can be swapped. It has pitch and mod wheels with variable LFO speed. I say that it functions like a Mellotron because it only plays the length of the sample and doesn't infinitely loop. ...Or I haven't figured that part out. The analog section of the synth's circuitry has many CEM chips for filtering and dynamics."
You can find more shots in
this flickr set. via Jeremy.
"All Digitana products are handmade in the UK, using high quality components, all items are produced in very limited quantities. The design philosophy is to make the products easy to use with clear and carefully chosen musically useful controls, making them ideal for live use or in the studio.
via Tolaemon:
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1. Piano - This sounds great. It has 48 PROM chips dedicated to just the piano so there is almost no "stretching" on the samples.
5. Slap Bass 1 / Slap Bass 2
1. PNO: 1-48
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The new Buddha Machines are out. You can find them here.
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via punkdISCO on the AH mailing list: "I cant understand why a few people are unimpressed with the MKS80. Maybe it's the interface? Anyway, I have had mine for maybe 6 years and for 5 years it remained unused (interface). I also had a Doepfer Drehbank that was also unused (it was setup to control a few synths so subsequently controlled none). I have now decided to setup the MKS80/Drehbank permanently paired. This means that when I turn then on, they work! The Drehbank has 64 knobs - the MKS80 has 64 editable parameters!
The MKS80 is an incredible synth. It just sounds wonderful. Extremely powerful and with the unusual modulation options, you can get some very aggressive/unusual sounds out of it.
Note the custom face on the Drehbank which normally looks like this image. Also note the punkdISCO logo in the top shot.
via quiet_channel where you will find more shots and info.
Nice shot of a Eurorack modular via the music of sound where you'll find the module listing under this shot.
You might recall from this prior post that Metasonix was going Eurorack. Here is an image of one in the works via Deviant Synth. It's the prototype for a "combined tube distortion/VCA, using variable-mu pentodes (26A6s to be specific)" that will hopefully be shown at NAMM.
