VINTAGE FORMANTA P-432 POLYPHONIC SYNTHESIZER

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"FORMANTA P-432 is a polyphonic digital preset synthesizer designed for both solo and ensemble performance. It has a 3-octave keyboard, 32 timbres and 4-voice polyphony. UNISON and CHORUS effects are available. Sound modulation parameters: VIBRATO (with variable frequency and depth), tune adjustment and a joystick for controlling modulation and pitch in the real-time mode. A foot pedal is provided for switching on/off SUSTAIN and VIBRATO parameters."

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FORMANTA UDS - soviet analog drum synth. FULL SET WITH PADS AND STANDS

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"Here's the the full set Formanta UDS analog drum synth with a very-very fat soviet sound and some of the filters identical to polivoks synth (they were made on the same factory). It includes the synth itself, the pads, pedal and stands. In other words - everything that you see on the pictures.

"Electronic percussion instrument "Rokton UDS" (Formanta UDS) consists of synthesizing block on the stand, 7 drum pads with velocity sensetvity on 3 stands and on holder for pedal of bass drum. There is a pedal to control high-hat and to turn synthesis on. There are also built in functions of autorhythm in synthesizing block with 16 programmed patterns (rock 1-4, rumba, samba, bassanova, begin, waltz, slow rock, swing, lezginka, march, disco, tango, 16 beat).

Controls on the front panel:

ï (5 channels with identical parametrs - snare, small tom-tom, middle tom-tom, big tom-tom, bass drum)
o sensitivity
o tone (up/down)
o duration
o range (up/down)
o balance (tone/noise)
o filter
o attack
o volume
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï (1 channel - cymbals)
o sensitivity
o duration
o volume
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï (1 channel - high-hat)
o sensitivity
o volume 1
o volume 2
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï Autorhythm:
o switch synthesis/autorhythm mode
o start/stop
o tempo
o volume
o 8 knobs (select styles)

ï General
o out ON
o volume
o volume phones - out phones.
o synhesis ON.
o mains indicator
ï Connectors on rear panel:
o IN (1-7) - snare, small tom-tom, middle tom-tom, big tom-tom, bass drum, cymbal, high-hat
o IN pedal (1-2) - synthesis, high-hat
o out stereo (1-4) - R,L (jack/5 DIN)
o out mono (1-2) - jack/5 DIN
o power on/off"

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FORMANTA UDS. HAT AND CYMBAL MOD

Published on Apr 16, 2015 Alexey Taber

FORMANTA UDS. DRUM UNIT MOD

Published on Apr 13, 2015 Alexey Taber

Follow-up to this post.

FORMANTA UDS - mod - midi . ФОРМАНТА УДС

Published on Apr 11, 2015 Alexey Taber

"Делал больше 5 лет назад, сейчас поставил миди , позже наверно выложу более детальный обзор"

Googlish: "He did more than 5 years ago, now put the midi, later probably lay out a more detailed review"

Formanta UDS Soviet Drum Synth with MIDI Learn - Video Demo

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Published on Apr 7, 2013 Марина Соколова

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"Has MIDI Input !!! with a MIDI Learn switch, so each drum voice can be assigned to be triggered by any midi note within any midi channel."

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Formanta FAEMI 1M Short Demo Polivoks Filter

Published on Jun 15, 2012 Stanislas Landois·18 videos

And some synth major spotting.

"Petite démo du Formanta Faemi 1M, un très bon petit synthé avec de bons sons de string machine et un filtre qui tue...
bon c'est totale impro et c'est filmé avec un appareil photo mais le son n'est pas si mauvais."

FORMANTA UDS - RARE VINTAGE SOVIET ANALOG DRUM MODULE

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"Formanta UDS fully analog electronic percussion synthesizer. Formanta UDS is soviet version of classic analog beat-box so as Roland TR and Simmons. Synth was produced in 80-s years in USSR on the same military plant in Kachkanar where well known synth Polivoks was developed. Sound of UDS is very aggressive and "military". And it looks like the piece of soviet army gear - heavy, khaki colored and studded with knobs. It is very powerful drum synth."

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Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider Studio Sale

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This one in via Florian Anwander.

"Apparantly Florian Schneider from Kraftwerk is doing some studio sale."

You'll find the full list of items here. I grabbed some of the synth items for the archives.

Pictured:

Computone Wind Synthesizer Driver Midi Controller

Vermona Digital Rhythm Machine

Firstman Sequence Synthesizer Model SQ-01

Roland SH-101 Synthesizer

Russian Vintage Synthesizer

Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm SN 976966

Formanta Electronic Percussion Synthesizer

Korg Programmable Rhythm KPR-77 Drum Machine

Syntovox SPX-216 Vocoder Synton Effects Unit SN 0019

Waldorf Midibay Midi Patchbay

Reverse Keys Korg Poly-800 Synthesizer

Yamaha CS-15 Synthesizer

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FORMANTA UDS RARE VINTAGE ANALOG SOVIET USSR DRUM MACHINE

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"Formanta UDS is powerfull 7 channel analog drum synthesizer, produced by the same FORMANTA factory in Kachkanar city where mades famous Polivoks synths in eighties. It has 5 identical channels (which can be used freely) for BASS DRUM, HIGH TOM, MIDDLE TOM, LOW TOM, SNARE and two channels for Hi-hats and Cymbals. The synth has also built-in beatbox with 16 patterns. The beatbox and the synthesizer are independent modules so they can work at the same time freely and you can tweak the generators of the beatbox patterns. Full freedom. Each channel has trigger Input on a standart 1/4 mono Jack and two additional Inputs for pedals. It can be triggered from drum pads like Simmons or any audio source - Line Outs of the drum machine or soundcard etc. The synth has two parallel mono Outs (1/4 Jack and 5Din) and two parallel stereo Outs (left-right on 1/4 Jacks and 5Din). It also has 5Din socket for Rhythm-Stick hand controller. This is an armored antitank piece of gear and the sound it produces is very unique!.."

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Formanta UDS Screen Translation

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Boss DR55, Formanta Polivoks (cv/gate mod) & Roland CSQ600

YouTube Published on Apr 16, 2012 by tuddilu

"Formanta Polivoks with CV/gate mod hooked up with the Roland CSQ600, trigged by Boss DR55

By II"III""

Rare FORMANTA RHYTHM FRET NECK GUITAR

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"It has 7 buttons on front side and 2 on the back. According to manual while tapping the "SPHERIC THING" the unit sends trigger commands to the control module. Probably it can trigger any drum machine or kinda. The unit is in excellent cosmetic condition (a few scratches as seen on the photos below).

The unit has a velocity-sensitive piezo trigger pad under sphere and nine red knobs: seven on the front for choosing which drum sound you wanted to trigger from the synth and two back knobs for switching "preset" or "synth" sound mode on the synthesizer."

FORMANTA RHYTHM FRET NECK SOVIET USSR GUITAR KEYTAR

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"The unit has one connection plug - Soviet 5DIN. As far as I know it used as an addition to FORMANTA UDS and MARSH UDS drum sets. Unfortunately I don't posess any of these so I cannot test the unit anyhow. It has 7 buttons on front side and 2 on the back. According to manual while tapping the "SPHERIC THING" the unit sends trigger commands to the control module. Probably it can trigger any drum machine or kinda. I cannot know that for sure, sorry. The unit is in good cosmetical condition (a few scratches as seen on the photos below)."

Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "Keytar? More like Drumtar. Lets say your band's keyboardist gets a keytar and starts dancing around the stage wielding their axe. Pity the poor drummer stuck there in back behind his kit. Well if you have enough rubles and know the right people a drummer can be dancing around the stage too. By the way, the DIN is to connect to several channels in a drum brain, it's not MIDI. "

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FORMANTA EMS-01 USSR SOVIET ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Note the video below is not the one for auction.

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Formanta EMS-01 soviet synth demo

Uploaded by dergach11 on Jan 19, 2008 - previously posted

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FORMANTA UDS - Soviet Analog 7CH. Drum Synthesizer

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"Formanta UDS is powerfull 7 channel analog drum synthesizer, produced by the same FORMANTA factory in Kachkanar city where mades famous Polivoks synths in eighties. It has 5 identical channels (which can be used freely) for BASS DRUM, HIGH TOM, MIDDLE TOM, LOW TOM, SNARE and two channels for Hi-hats and Cymbals. The synth has also built-in beatbox with 16 patterns. The beatbox and the synthesizer are independent modules so they can work at the same time freely. And you can tweak the generators of the beatbox patterns. Full freedom. Each channel has trigger Input on a standart 1/4 mono Jack and two additional Inputs for pedals. It can be triggered from drum pads like Simmons or any audio source - Line Outs of the drum machine or soundcard etc. The synth has two parallel mono Outs (1/4 Jack and 5Din) and two parallel stereo Outs (left-right on 1/4 Jacks and 5Din). It also has 5Din socket for Rhythm-Stick hand controller. This is an armoured antitank piece of gear and the sound it produces is very unique!

Controls on the front panel:
(5 channels with identical parametrs - snare, small tom-tom, middle tom-tom, big tom-tom, bass drum)
-sensitivity
-tone (up/down)
-decay time
-octave (up/down)
-balance (tone/noise)
-filter
-accent
-volume
-sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)
(1 channel - cymbals)
-sensitivity
-decay time
-volume
-sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)
(1 channel - high-hat)
-sensitivity
-volume 1
-volume 2
-sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)
Autorhythm
-switch synthesis/autorhythm mode
-start/stop
-tempo
-volume
4x4 knob matrix for selecting 16 styles
General
-out ON
-volume
-volume phones - out phones.
-synhesis ON.
-mains indicator

The supply voltage - 220-230V/50Hz. For use it with 110/127V, a voltage converter is necessary\ not added\."

Форманта ЭМС-01. Немного лайва

YouTube via studioboxer.
"Форманта ЭМС-01 Немного лайва"
via Владимир in the comments of this post.
"I have Formanta EMS-01. Grand tool, we play it live in the club, techno. Fragment in our home studio"

FORMANTA EMS-01 SOVIET ANALOG MONSTER SYNTH

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"Formanta ems-01. This synth was developed in USSR in 80-s years on the same military radio plant in Kachkanar where well known Polivoks synth was produced.

Perhaps, Formanta ems-01 is most unusual sounding synth among the soviet made synthesizers. Its modulation possibilities are infinite, raw analog sound is absolutely unique, and it looks like peace of rock.

Let’s see overal architecture of the instrument. Instrument has two sections. The first section is analog mono-synth with two oscillators. It is the wild heart of the beast. Synth has 3-octave keyboard based on electromagnetic elements. It means that contacts of the keys will last forever. Every oscillator has triangle, saw and square waveforms. You can change square’s pulse width by knob or modulate it by LFO. Audio diapason of the every oscillator changes from 16’ to 2’. Mixer section has 5 knobs for control of amount audio from: 1 osc., 2 osc., external input, noise source, ring modulator. Then there is flexible LFO with controllable delay onboard. LFO has 6 waveforms: noise, sample-and-hold, two types of saw, square and sine. You can route LFO to modulate: every oscillator pitch, filter’s cutoff, VCA. Then you can switch LFO to trigger VCA and VCF envelopes, and you can modulate speed of LFO from keytracking. There is a ring modulator. You can switch input signals for ring modulator as 1osc. and 2osc., or as 1osc. and LFO. Then we have unique analog filter based on the same circuitry which used in Polivoks synth. You can control filter’s resonanse and cutoff by knobs, amount of modulation from LFO to cutoff, amount of modulation from dedicated AR envelope. Filter can be switched in low-pass mode or in band-pass mode. Filter’s envelope can be switched to positive or negative direction. Also we have VCA with dedicated ADSR envelope with autotrigger possibility. There is a portamento. You can adjust its time and switch off portamento from second oscillator and to get very special effect, this feature also borrowed from Polivoks synth. There are also: memory for last pushed key, slide knob which change overal tune in about 3 octaves, interval knob for detuning oscillators in about 1 octave, detune knob for detuning oscillators in about 1 ton range. Synth section has factory installed CV-in in Hz/Volt scale, but for its own gate trigger signals standard. Then there is second section of instrument. It is analog organ with 5 octave keyboard also on electromagnetic contacts. Organ has 6 preset sounds. For organ you can control: tune, amount of pitch modulation from dedicated triangle lfo, frequency of pitch modulation, delay of pitch modulation. Some organ’s preset sounds feed to rich analog 3-stage chorus effect. Then you can independently route synthesizer and organ to exellent analog stereo-phaser effect. Stereo-phaser has control of resonanse. On the back of the instrument there are outs for phones, audio mono sum, audio stereo outs, and input for pedal controller. Also there are CV-in, CV-out and external audio in."

LIDER-2

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"The floor guitar microsynthesizer Lider-2 (Formanta factory) is desined for using with external source, for example: guitar, organ and so on. The instrument can process sounds in different ways and mix signal inside the synthesizer. There are 5 rubber pedal controls which are likely to be used during playing. The following effects can be used by player: tonecorrector, flanger, chorus, solo, rhythm.

Controls:
General
* amplifier (ON)
* output (effect, scale)
* trigger (ON)
* indicators - control, overload, effect.

Tonecorrector:
* level
* tone (1,2.3)

Flanger:
* range
* brightness
* rate
* width

Chorus:
* frequency
* detuning

Solo:
* spectrum
* rocktone
* suboctave

Rhythm:
* guitar

Rubber pedal controls - tonecorrector, flanger, chorus, rhythm/solo, effect.
Supply - in, out (transit, amplifier, phones).

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POLIVOKS Soviet Minimoog Analog synth

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"Polivoks was designed by an engineering team lead by Vladimir Kuzmin from the Urals Vector Company later built by Formanta Radio Plant in the early 80's.
• This auction synth was made in July 1988 in USSR. Serial Number: 0788009
• Polivoks is one of the most popular vintage synths today because of its history and extraordinary industrial look. Many consider its sound capabilities to be comparable to a MiniMoog.
• POLIVOKS is a polyphonic 2 OSC analog synthesizer. It features a unique set of electronic parts, reliable keyboard (49 notes F–E) made in magnetically controlled contacts; synthesis modules consist of independent boards, which is convenient for maintenance.
• The synthesizer has 2-voices polyphony; each oscillator works with a keyboard note independently.
• Polivoks is housed in an original body of uncommon design with handy controls.
• Two types of filters – bandpass/lowpass and external input for cutoff control.
• Connection on the rear panel : on/off switch, OUTPUT on standard 1/4''jack, INPUT and Pedal input with 5-Din connectors, PHONES with 5-Din connector, power wire connection (220V), fuse (0,5A) ."