MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Cagura Sappro City Standar DIY Analog Synth

via RJBlog here

Anyone know more about this one? via philip.

Update: some additional info in the comments. Also see this holiday track featuring a Roland CMU-800 and SH-101. Click on the "CMU-800 de Xmas" link when you get there.

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ELEKTRONIKA EM-26 RARE SOVIET USSR ANALOG VOCODER SYNTH

via this auction
"Electronika EM-26 portable vocoder is intended for synthesis the voice or external signals, has internal strings ton-generator, analyzer-synthesizer, modulations and vocoder effects.

Control panel include 4 sections: VIBRATO, VOCODER, STRINGS and LEVEL, also it has a panel real time transpose and other controls.

VIBRATO section has sliders - accent, depth and rate
VOCODER - chorus knobs (on, mode), mic/vocoder level

STRINGS - on/off, level, violin/cello, sustain
LEVEL - mic, line A, line C
Keyboard PANEL: main level, pitch, interval, octave, pitch bend

CONNECTION (1/4 jack): mic in, line A,C, phones, output, pedal, power.

Specifications:
— Number of octaves in a keyboard, 2,5
— Weight with case, 6 kg (approx. 13 Pounds)"
samples on ruskeys.net here

Sold For: US $359.00

PLAN B Model 15 Rev. 2.5 - Complex VCO

via this auction
"The immensely popular Plan B Model 15 is an analog Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) featuring an all-discrete component triangle wave core, two independent fully processed (+/-) VC inputs, a single 1V/Oct input, a dedicated linear FM input, sync, and independent Sine, Triangle, Saw, PWM and Wave Morph Outputs. The VC Wave Morph is a vactrol-based (read: smooth) crossfade function via a manual pot setting or VC control and the morphs from Sine to either Saw or Square wave outputs.

Due to it's triangle core architecture, the sound replicates that of the Buchla 258 with stability better than .01% (less than 4 hertz drift at 1kHz over 24 hours) and boasts a frequency range of 1 to 20Khz and a maximum power consumption of only 40mA.

Various component improvements on the Model 15 core have increased for 1V/oct tracking to seven octaves requiring only single pot adjustments for periodic calibration and none of the hick-ups associated with sawtooth core VCOs past the 3k limit.

The Model 15 has been mechanically redesigned with it's electronics resting parallel to the faceplate, bringing the overall depth from over 4 inches in previous revisions to less than 1 1/8th inches with the Rev. 2."

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Ham Heart Hamdusts

via Ham Heart

"got a new batch shipped off to bigcitymusic.com"

ME80 THE AFTERTOUCH SYNTHESIZER

Just released today. You can find full details here including samples.

"The sound of ME80 will remind you of an acoustic instument. It sounds synthetic, but has the expression of a real instrument. You can shape the tone with aftertouch like you would do on a brass instrument. The velocity feels very alive with a seperate velocity-envelope that took 1 year to develop. Different velocities will have totally different envelope shape. If you want arpeggiators on this synth you do not deserve to play it. The instrument takes practice to master, like a real instrument. Polyphonic aftertouch is supported, but you can select "last played" mode for the aftertouch, and you will have fake polyphonic response from your mono aftertouch keyboard."

via Georges

Jen SX1000 Synth

via this auction BIN: £450.00

Sold For: 0 bids

Vintage Linn Drum

via this auction

inside a LinnDrum

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Studio Electronics MidiMini Moog Rack Synthesizer

SN 1297 via this auction

"Studio Electronics MidiMini, essentially a MiniMoog in a rack. The initial runs were called MidiMoogs, the story goes that the name changed when Studio Electronics ran out of original MiniMoogs to convert and started using some cloned components (although there's also an alternate version of the story where the name changed solely for copyright reasons). This machine is in excellent cosmetic shape and has been working fine doing bassline duty in a lightly used, smoke-free home studio, however PLEASE NOTE: it could use a service as the oscillators go very wobbly and unstable when adjusting their settings. I've posted a sound file (http://www.scientitian.com/files/Midimini1.mp3) which just has a normal bass sound at the start and then at 34 secs I open up the filter and start adjusting the footage and waveform settings and you can hear the oscillators going loopy, then settling down again as they're retuned (please ignore the intermittent white noisy helicopter sound in the background, it's not from the Midimini but another synth leaking through the mixer which I didn't notice when doing the recording). This MidiMini was purchased from E-Bay several years ago and although it was advertised as being in perfect working condition the oscillators have had this issue from the get go, oscillator #1 has been the main offender in the past but, in testing the unit yesterday, it now seems to be working fine again." inside a Midi Mini.

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EML 101 Electrocomp Analog synthesizer

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via this auction

BIN: $1,750.00

inside an EML 101

"There was work done to rewire a non-working Osc.1 section, and components in the filter section were replaced/upgraded."

Sold For: check back

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YAMAHA CS-5 analog synthesizer

via this auction BIN: $500.00

Sold For: US $420.00

ROLAND JUPITER-6 PROGRAMMABLE POLYPHONIC SYNTHESIZER

via this auction BIN: $2,200.00

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TADPOLE SYNTH WITH MIDI CV DEMO.wmv

YouTube via bluelantern320. Blue Lantern on Ebay
"This is a demo of the new Tadpole (1) Voice Synthesizer. It is all Analog signal Path. It is very Fat sound. It has 2 Wave Shapes: PWM and Saw. There is no onboard Filter, the idea is you buy and collect the filters I have made and you now have a portable Modular. The VCA input jack has a switch so first you patch from the wave out to your filter, then back to the vca in. I will have another video showing that later. So in this video I use the Tadpole and a Midi CV converter that is getting midi from the RM1x yamaha sequencer."

A_SID Sid Chip Emulation on an ATMEGA chip controlled via Ableton Live and Arduino

YouTube via littlescale
"A_SID Sid Chip Emulation on an ATMEGA chip controlled via Ableton Live and Arduino http://little-scale.blogspo..."

Roland MC4 MC-4 MC 4 sequencer

via this auction

Sold For: $823.00

Roland MC-8 MicroComposer Unboxing & Demo

YouTube via peahix

"I just bought this old beast on eBay. Since it came complete in the original box in essentially unused condition, I thought I'd make an unboxing video. After spending an hour or so getting familiar with its arcane operating system, I made a quick programming demo. It's brain seemed to be a bit frazzled when I first turned it on, but it seems to be working OK now, except that it needs to be calibrated because the pitch CV's are off scale. Anybody know someone that can do this for me?"

Serge_wiard_joystick.mp4

YouTube via b3nsf
"Wiard joystick controller gr-1209b CV+ gate into Serge Modular M-odules: Dual Osc, Quad Slope, Creature, and Wave Proc... Enjoy!!"

My Old School Boom Boom Factory

YouTube via kidysputpikii

"Live recording of the old school beasts playing their usual parts ;) performed and recorded with ableton live, drums : linndrum 808 and 909 synth : juno106 ms20 Xpander control : APC40"

Waldorf Largo V1.5.0

via Waldorf:

"Largo V1.5.0 Update
We are proud to announce the release of Waldorf Largo V1.5.0. This free update for all Largo customers comes with a completely new Browse page for easy sound administration, a new 6-stage Chorus effect, new parameters in the Oscillator section and in the Arpeggiator. Furthermore it fixes several bugs reported by our beta testers and customers and Largo now runs in ProTools with the FXpansion VST2RTAS Wrapper. Included are more than 450 new sounds from highly acclaimed sound programmers. More information and download link:

http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/products/largo/largo_v1_5_0

If our server is aching under the load of people downloading Largo V1.5.0, please be a little patient and try it again later.

Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a lot of fun with this little present from

Your Waldorf Team!"

NIIO analog IOTINE CORE demo1

YouTube via NEPICOT5

NIIO analog IOTINE CORE demo 2

NIIO analog IOTINE CORE demo-3

NIIO analog TRACK THICKENER / ER-1

NIIO analog TRACK THICKENER / REVERB

"Using the TRACK THICKENER pre-reverb to control overall texture and tone of the reverb."

IC MD3 mix

TT DEMO QUAD

http://www.niioanalog.com/
On Schneiders Buero
Be sure to see this post for more details.
via sequencer.de

Mahya Analog Synthesizer Live 2009

flickr by DekuwahatakeMari
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"Mahya Live at Silver Elephant, Tokyo, Japan.
Feb. 15. 2009.

Featuring 10 Analog Synthesizers :
Roland System 100M
Moog Liberation
Jen SX-1000
Korg 770
Roland Guitar-Synth GR-500
Yamaha CS-15
Dubreq Stylophone