E-MU Systems Proteus/3 World Rackmount 32-Voice Sampler Module

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E-MU Planet Earth (Model 9113) Rackmount Synthesizer w/ WORLD Expansion

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Chunk Systems Agent 00 Funk Envelope Filter & Emu SP1200 - MikeSynth

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"My favourite envelope filter pedal doing its thing .
It’s a bit dull / rolled off - but still sounds great"

David Lynch's Synth Gear Up for Auction

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Apprenlty JULIEN*S auction house is auctioning off David Lynch's belongings.

Among the items you will some of studio equipment including the synths pictured here. It's interesting to see the gear he used. The Roland MKS-70 (JX10/JX-8P) used on Twin Peaks is not listed as I believe it was owned and by Angelo Badalamenti, not Lynch. I included his portable audio recording equipment, not as a synth, but as a possible sample source. Unfortunately the listing does not mention if there are any recordings present in them so keep that in mind if you bid. It would be a shame if they were removed.

Most of the items mention they were "owned and used by David Lynch in his personal recording studio."

Images in this post were captured in the order listed for each listing.

E-Mu Systems E III Model 6083 SN 02200324

Korg microX SN 003322 & Yamaha Motif 7 SN 1001208

Korg KAOS Pad KP3 SN 057331 & Kaossilator SN 080602

"Dumbland" Boss VT-1 Voice Transformer with Box Set and Studio-Used Microphones

"A lot containing the BOSS VT-1 Voice Transformer owned and used by David Lynch for voicing the characters of his cartoon DumbLand (2002), a Dumbland DVD box set, and two microphones used by David Lynch in his home recording studio known as Asymmetrical Studio."

Tony Bassett No. 1 Electronics Theremin "Spacetrip Passport"

Stylophone Pocket Synthesizer

Lot of Three Synthesizers: Alesis Nanosynth, Gakken SX-150 Mark II, Roland JV-1010 SN BN26304

Roland SPD-20 Sampling Pad SN FV41503

Portable Audio Recording Equipment - not a synth, but you have to wonder what recordings, if any, may be preserved for sample sources.

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E-Mu Emulator II 61-Key 8-Voice Sampler Workstation SN 1609

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E-mu Drumulator 8 Kits + MIDI upgrade board

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"ROM switcher boards and third-party sound ROMs are nothing new as far as the E-mu Drumulator is concerned – in fact both were available while the machine was current. JL Cooper Electronics and others made 3-kit boards, and Digidesign (who later became Avid) got their start producing alternative sound ROMs for the Drumulator under their original name of Digidrums. That said, while the various alternative ROM sets are easy to come by these days, ROM switcher boards are not, and without one it’s a total pain to keep swapping chips in and out as you have to take out 8 screws on the underneath of the thing, lift off the lid, swap 5 chips over and put it all back together again.

8 Kits

I wanted a modification very much in the same style as my TR-707 ROM expansion board, with a number of kits that you can instantly switch between. As with that project, this is done without the need for any additional switches and instead uses a microcontroller to snoop on the front panel switch matrix. Kits are selected by holding down one of the bottom row of buttons marked 1-8 and pressing the ENTER button. The selection is remembered when the Drumulator is powered off too.

The Drumulator’s sounds are stored across 4x 16kB ROM chips, although they form one continuous region of memory. Thanks to this, and due to the way that they’re selected, it’s really easy to replace all four with a single large capacity chip. The 512kB flash ROM that I used can hold 8 kits worth of sounds, which works out nicely as that’s the stock sounds plus 7 of the Digidrums kits, including the famous Rock Drums kit:

Stock kit
Digidrums Alternate Drum Set 1
Digidrums Electronic Drums 1
Digidrums Electronic Drums 2
Digidrums Rock Drums
Digidrums Jazz Drums
Digidrums Latin Percussion
Digidrums African + Misc Percussion
Because each kit also has a corresponding modified program ROM (as the length of sounds, locations in memory and channel assignments are all hard-coded into the Drumulator’s firmware); the D8KM board also has an EPROM which contains the relevant OS for all 8 kits, and is connected to the Drumulator’s OS ROM socket with a ribbon cable. Fortunately the Drumulator doesn’t care if the OS ROM changes while the machine is running as long as they’re all the same version, which they are – ‘P3.00’, the final version.

MIDI

I chose also to include MIDI functionality as part of the upgrade, as most Drumulators don’t have it. E-mu did offer a retrofit, which has been cloned over the years, but it’s very basic and only does MIDI notes. The D8KM board on the other hand also offers the ability to sync the sequencer to incoming MIDI clock. Just set the Drumulator to external clock and if MIDI clock is available, it will automatically override the external clock signal and will also start and stop playback. If MIDI clock is not available the Drumulator will use the external clock signal as normal, including for the tape loading functionality."

The colourful bass synth of Depeche Mode

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The Moog Source from the year 1981 in action
in one of my favorite tracks from DM.
Home by Depeche Mode from the album Ultra (1997)
Written by Martin L. Gore

Featured the E-MU Emax SE Sampling Synthesizer and the Moog Source

This cover song series contains my own recreations of my favourite songs from the last 50 years. The original music from which I take inspiration belong to their respective owners. I recreate tracks only for personal passion and to pay homage to these tracks.
My intention is not to create covers that sound exactly like the original (if you want to hear identical sounds, please listen the original). It's more of an inspiration with my sounds from the old synthesizers from the past and of course the great appreciation for the original performers and producers."

E-MU Systems SP-1200 8-Voice Drum Sampler w/ New Screen

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"EMU SP1200 Sampler In excellent condition, new screen, works perfectly No hiss on the outputs"

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E-MU Systems Emax II w/Zip of Alan Wilder's Depeche Mode Samples

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"E-Mu Emax II Sampler/Sequencer. Used but in perfect working order. Comes with system floppy disk and a Zip drive containing Alan Wilder's Depeche Mode samples from the Devotional tour. Perfect for a DM tribute! See photos for details.

The Emu Emax is a 61 key, 8 voice, multitimbral, velocity and pressure sensitive, 12 bit sampler with 8 individual outputs, featuring a programmable analog low pass filter, LFO, dedicated filter and amp AHDSR envelopes, arpeggiator, real-time 16 track sequencer, chorus, RS-422, and MIDI."

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E-MU Emax II + Hard Drive + Gator Case SN 069402372

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"• There were several Emax II’s released … THIS one is the Model 2212
- 16 bit
- 39K (though you can dial in lower sampling rates)
- 2M sampling memory
- stereo
- nice arpeggiator and sequencer
- really nice sounding filters"

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Adventures in Audio - E-Mu Proteus 1 Plus - Battery Replacement

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Inside an E-Mu Proteus 1. Previous video posted here.

"Adventures in Audio revisits the E-Mu Proteus 1 Plus Orchestral, a MIDI synthesizer module from 1992. Join us as we fit a new internal battery, re-load the missing patches, and have a listen. Along the way we'll encounter some of the 'ghost patches' from the first video in this series. Let's go!

Chapters:
0:00 Rude noises
0:15 Titles
0:23 Intro
1:09 Let's open it up
2:28 Removing the old internal battery
3:04 Installing the battery holder
4:05 Installing the new battery
5:41 Preparing to reinstall the patches to RAM
7:01 Interlude: in they go!
7:14 Some musings about installing the patches
8:28 Let's hear some sounds!
9:54 2x the Phantazia!
10:32 Skipping through some more sounds
13:36 The ghost piano?
14:32 Ghost bongos & more patches
15:45 The ghost piano???
16:47 A few more interesting sounds
18:11 The end of the RAM
18:32 Outro
19:08 Ivy's corner

Featured music: The Manitou - Nightrunner"

Vangelis The Bounty Theme ~ Vintage Synthesizer Cover

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My favorite theme made by Vangelis
The Bounty (Closing Titles) by Vangelis from the album The Bounty (1984)

Featured the E-MU Emax SE sampling synthesizer

This cover song series contains my own recreations of my favourite songs from the last 50 years. The original music from which I take inspiration belong to their respective owners. I recreate tracks only for personal passion and to pay homage to these tracks.

My intention is not to create covers that sound exactly like the original (if you want to hear identical sounds, please listen the original). It's more of an inspiration with my sounds from the old synthesizers from the past and of course the great appreciation for the original performers and producers."

E-MU Systems SP-1200 8-Voice Drum Sampler

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1985 E-MU Systems SP-12 Turbo 8-Voice Sampling Percussion Drum Machine with Case

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"E-Mu SP-12 with the Turbo Upgrade in Very Good+ condition, fully functional, and just received a $747 professional service by Advance Musical Electronics in LA — recapped, recalibrated & performing like new.

Originally a standard model with 1.2 seconds of sample time, it’s now upgraded to the Turbo edition with 5 seconds via brand-new RAM and OS (Version 2.6) chips.

Made in Santa Cruz, CA USA.

Highlights:

Boots instantly with internal RAM – no floppy boot loading, no lost work if you forget to save.

Skip the floppies: Modern tools like SP12 Librarian & EMXP make sample management easy via computer.

Lo-fi sampling tricks double or quadruple sample time with pitch shifting — that signature SP sound.

Slightly higher sampling rate than the SP-1200 (on paper) and stock ROM sounds built in.

More unique and rarer than the SP-1200 — only produced for a short time.

Ideal for hybrid setups: use the SP as a sequencer and sound shaper, with a rack sampler for long samples.

Looks cooler, sounds amazing, and (IMHO) it’s better than an SP-1200 for less than the price of one."

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KINO For You And I ~ Vintage Synth Cover ~ КИНО Нам с тобой

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One of my favorite tracks from my favorite soviet/russian music group KINO.
For You and I (Нам с тобой) from the Black Album (1990)

Featured the Alisa 1377 Analog Synthesizer and the E-MU Emax SE Sampling Synthesizer

This cover song series contains my own recreations of my favourite songs from the last 50 years. The original music from which I take inspiration belong to their respective owners. I recreate tracks only for personal passion and to pay homage to these tracks.
My intention is not to create covers that sound exactly like the original (if you want to hear identical sounds, please listen the original). It's more of an inspiration with my sounds from the old synthesizers from the past and of course the great appreciation for the original performers and producers."

Emu SP1200 into Urei 1178 - Club House Music - MikeSynth

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"Just one side of an 1178 being used here.
Squashing the SP1200"

E-MU Systems SP-12 Turbo 8-Voice Drum Sampler

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Custom Red Case E-MU Systems SP-1200 [7030 Edition] w/ Marvel Comics Dust Cover

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E-MU Emulator III SN 079200333 w/ Gotek Drive

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"This is in excellent working condition. We just had the unit serviced at Advanced Audio in Venice where the new Gotek drive was installed and given new RAM Modules. It will need a flash drive with the appropriate OS to be fully functional. This is not included. The internal hard drive was bad and was removed, but is included. You can boot and save sounds to Gotek Flash. This is in excellent working condition.

PHYSICAL CONDITION: Excellent - This is in excellent physical condition. For its age the unit is extremely clean, with some slight scuffs around the side panels and the faceplate. Overall, it presents very well and has been very well taken care of. It's in excellent physical condition."

"SPECS:

Serial #: 079200333
Firmware: Ver. 2.00
Software: Ver. 2.40
8MB RAM installed
ACCESSORIES INCLUDED:

Original EIII tutorial book
Original EIII reference manual
Misc. SCSI accessories & cables
IEC cable
EXTRAS INCLUDED:

SCSI drive & 2x CD drives (Untested and functionality not guaranteed)
EIII RM45 Removable Media Storage System rack unit (Untested and functionality not guaranteed)
Optima Technology DisKovery 45R disk drive (Untested and Functionality not guaranteed)
7x 44MB disk cartridges (Untested & Functionality not promised)"

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Emu 70s modular university/Pat Gleeson?

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VEMIA is Peter Forrest's auction house. He is the author of The A-Z of Analogue Synthesizer Books.

"This interesting E-mu modular started out life at an American university, at a time when E-mu were happy to sell circuit boards and sub-modules to individuals as well as manufacturing the systems themselves. Because this was built by two people, they were completely familiar with the layout (even though they decided in a few respects to make changes to the design to improve the layout of, for instance, the Universal Active Filter). That meant that they had no lettering on the panels (as well as none of the distinctive blue edging that E-mu themselves use on modules). Further research: according to a post for an auction in 2014, it was actually built by Pat Gleeson and a PhD student, and there were some pencil markings on the panel which have since worn off. Search the wonderful matrixsynth for Early Vintage E-mu Modular for Sale . Here's the link: https://www.matrixsynth.com/2014/05/early-vintage-e-mu-modular-for-sale.html. The most likely supposition is that this was built for Cal State East Bay (then known as Cal State Hayward), but we're trying to find out more.

In the interests of intelligibility by someone not intimately involved in its creation, we decided that it needed labelling. We did this with cheap tape, and a Brother printer. The results are more useful than beautiful. (If it was partly Pat Gleeson's work, the lettering and blue tape could easily be removed if you wanted.) Cosmetically it is generally good - the knobs have started to discolour a bit after nearly 50 years, but are still nice to use. One silver top is missing.

Working order: every module has been checked out as 100%. Three of them needed some expertise from Tony Wride, who used E-mu parts where possible and Pioneer Tribute parts where not. Altogether this modular is probably about 97% E-mu and 3% Pioneer. As this process has taken a year or two to complete, and the modular hasn't received the regular playing it deserves, some pots may be scratchy when first used.

Check the pics for what you will get. The UAF needed a replacement wooden piece in the cabinet to screw into, so hadn't been connected when we took the pics. Packing 30GBP."

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