SONYMON ELECTRONICA - PAMPLONA - ESPANA - Mod. MU-OL12

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Anyone know what this is? Looks like a mixer but if you look at the back instead of inputs there are positive and negative leads.

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ENSONIQ HALO (2002)

video by KEYBOARDS NOSTALGY

This appears to be the first one pictured on the site. There are a couple of references to the HALO ROM sounds but not the actually keyboard synth. Some pics and details of one I found on eBay:

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SN 030200610

"The new ENSONIQ® Halo™ Keyboard delivers cutting-edge performance features and professional sound quality at an affordable price. Halo ships with a diverse 32 MB soundset that includes the acclaimed Perfect Piano – an incredibly expressive acoustic piano that gives you unmatched realism. Halo also offers you three additional internal ROM slots, allowing you to expand your sound palette using any ROMs from the comprehensive E-MU® Proteus® Expansion Library. This expandability lets you customize your Halo with ROM soundsets that are generally more genre-specific (i.e. Hip-Hop, Electronica, Orchestral, B-3, etc.).

Halo also gives you 12 real-time controllers that put Halo's powerful synthesis features at your fingertips. You can tweak Halo's filters, LFO's, effects and more – giving you total performance control over your sounds. And Halo's 16 syncable/programmable arpeggiators and interactive Super BEATs Mode are perfectly syncronized with each other and over 100 rhythm-based synthesis and effects parameters, letting you perform entire pieces in real-time, all in perfect unison. Together with pristine 24-bit analog outputs and a lightning-fast processor, Halo offers professional results and playability at an incredible price.

61 keys
64 voice polyphony
32 MB Soundset w/ 640 factory/512 user presets (expandable to 128 MB)
16 programmable real-time control parameters/preset
16 simultaneous/syncable ARPs
SuperBEATs interactive Groove Mode (w/16 trigger buttons)
24-bit dual stereo effects processor
Four 24-bit analog outputs"

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Vintage 1981 EKO Encore Panda 61 Key Electronic Piano Keyboard Synthesizer

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video by Nenne Effe

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This appears to be the first one to be featured on the site.

Measures approx. 95cms x 45cms
Features:-
61 Full Size Keys
Built in speaker with separate Volume, Bass & Sustain Dials
Orchestra Section, Presets & Vibrato Switches
Automatic Rhythm Section
Tempo & Volume Dials
Headphone Socket
UK mains Powered

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Mystery Vintage Drum Machine Spotted in "What We Started" Documentary

Update: video added above.

This one was spotted by @DyLAB

It comes in at 11:36 in "What We Started" on Netflix. Cool documentary with tons of synth spotting BTW.

Anyone know what it is? I thought it might be a mixer but in the film you can see the LEDs moving left to right as in a sequencer.

As some of you know Moby was a huge collector of drum machine. He sold them off in 2018. I captured them here. What's pictured to the left here isn't in that post. If you know what it is, leave a comment.

Update: and it's an ETA Stage Lighting System 1234 controller. Thanks to those that left a comment.

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"Professional lighting system comes with 8 channel 4 scene ETA Stage Lighting System 1234 controller with ETA 1235 remote footswitch stage controller. Two Model 1250 600 watt dimmer packs, two tripod stands and light bars, 8 PAR 56 light cans with slides and gels, cables and chords Controller can be used by sound board with 50 ft snake to stage remote override. All channels can be individually dimmed. Controlller has both scene and channel chase features, fade to black. Channel and scene chase can be triggered remotely with an input from a sound board."

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MIDI PRIMER Everything You Need to Know to Profit From The Most Dynamic Musical Technology of The '80s

October 1985 article from The Music Trades in via Loscha.

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(Update: higher res pics added - PDF here).

Synth Ads featured:

Opcode MIDIMAC Interface, Sequencer, and Patch Libraries

DX7 RAM from The Musician's Service

AKAI S612 Sampler - Finally Sampling Made Simple!

Ensoniq "the the Mirage"

Affordable MIDI Switching DATA-LINK 5 from DIGI-TRON

SYNSONICS DRUMS - Fred Gretsch Enterprises

Syntech MIDI Software, Ram Cartridges, Midi Interfaces

It's worth noting this is the first post to feature DIGI-TRON. Makes you wonder how many unknown synth related companies are out there. In over 15 years of running this site they still come up. See the New Old label for more.

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E-MU Systems Proteus Master Performance System 5 Octave Keyboard Synthesizer

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This might actually be the first one to be featured on the site.

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Dr. bohm solist s-Böhmat analog drum machine

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I beleive this is the first post to feature one. You can find a few related posts here.

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EEH DS- 500 Digital Sequencer

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"The device was built around 1980 and is in good technical and visual condition for its age. This sequencer was also used by Tangerine Dream. Power supply and operating instructions are included."

This appears to be the first one featured on the site. EEH was known to make the BANANA anlog synth similar in look to an Oberheim OB-Xa in OB-SX case. You can posts featuring EEH here.

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