"Make: Tokyo Meeting 03" preview!

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"Make: Tokyo Meeting 03" for display. These are the articles which are planning exhibition. 来月、多摩美で開催される、Make: Tokyo Meeting 03 に出展します。これは、出展予定の作品群です。"

SYNTH-DRUM mini (Completion)

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SYNDRUM CM Vintage Analog Drum Synthesizer

via this auction
"Syndrum CM Analog Drum Synthesizer in good condition. This unit was the one of the forerunners to the Roland V-Drum and similar drum synthesizers/sample playback systems. This unit is all-original, constructed largely of what appears to be heavy-duty plexiglas - it would have to be industrial-strength quality to look this good after some 30-35 years! There are 4 control pots - Sweep, Tune, Time, and Volume.
One original knob is in place; one can swap the knob from pot to pot in order to make adjustments..."

Syndrum CM

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auction details:
"The Syndrum analog drum synthesizer was developed by Joe Pollard and Mark Barton back in the 1970's. Eventually their company Pollard Inc. gave way to Research Development Systems, Inc. who manufactured the Syndrum CM.

Although the Syndrum is capable of many different sounds, the one that caught on was that descending "dooooooom" as heard on "Poor Pitiful Me" by Linda Rondstat and "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. I used it to create my own custom Kick and Tom drum samples which I used separately or mixed in to augment the sound of real drums."

Syndrum CM

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Pad like Simmons for SYNDRUM CLONE

YouTube via denha. follow-up to this post.
"A pad like hexagon-shaped wooden SIMMONS."

Simple pad for SYNDRUM CLONE

YouTube via denha. "This is a simple pad for SYNDRUM CLONE."

SYNDRUM CLONE + TR-606

YouTube via denha. "Synchronized analog machine."

SYNDRUM CLONE 2

YouTube via denha. "Pollard SYNDRUM 278 clone."

SYNDRUM CLONE

CM SYNDRUM

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"Designed by one of th pioneers of the Electronic Drums, Joe Pollard. 8" Pad w/ Controller. Weaved Head. 4 controls - missing 1 plastic knob. I guess this drum was used by Roger Tyler in Queen. link"

Syndrum

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Syndrum

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via Johan
Previous Syndrum posts

Demo synth AMS-16 and drums ADS-8

"DIY synth AMS-16 and drums ADS-8 presents www.enmusic.by.ru"

YouTube via enginmusic. Sent my way via frederic.

Update: I sent an email to AH asking if anyone had more info on these. The following are the replies:
Florian

"The Drumsynth reminds to a tama TS305/306 series.
The Monosynth is according to a link in the kyrillian text an adaption of Ray Wilsons Soundlab Minisynth and the sequencer is derived from Thorsten Kloses software projects."

Synth Ollie:
"the drumsynth is based om some old e&mm diy-syndrum articles, synbal and syntom II"

Pollard Syndrum Quad Pads

Remember the Pollard Syndrum? Click here for more shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"Syndrum Quad By Pollard Industries.

Four analog synths in one box, triggered by four drum pads. The synths have a noise generator with sustain for snare and long noise effects, like crashing, separate volume control, tone sustain, tone sweep (up, down or off), tuning (course, fine and waveform shape), and vibrato control (spread, waveform and range).

The outputs on the back include seperate outs for the four pads, mixed outs for pads 1 & 2 and 3 & 4, and a seperate mixed output for all four pads (XLR & 1/4 inch).

There is an input for the footswitch that controls some of the parameters of the pad chosen."

Album Art

Anyone know where this image is from?

"LEM Studios." Via Cynthia on AH:

"The picture appears on the back of the LEM album MACHINES (highly recommended), Wavefront Records 1977. It is Bryce Robbley's chrome mannequin and Serge System next to Doug Lynner's Serge System, and Alex Cima's Steiner Parker SynthaSystem... It was shot in Star Track Studios on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, circa 1977 or so. Danny Sofer of Oberhiem Electronics also played with them and may have contributed the Polyfusion modular on the right side of the picture? They also used an ARP String Ensemble, a Synthi AKS, and an EML PolyBox, a Syndrum, some Oberheim, and a little Buchla 200. These guys were good friends of mine and part of the Synapse/LEM/Triode crowd. They recorded together under the names MOBIUS and LEM (Live Electronic Music). Bryce (RIP) and Doug went to Cal Arts, and Doug's 5-panel Serge was the very first sold as an assembled unit, instead of as a synth kit from the CIA "staircase assembly party" days. Doug went on to use his Serge in the band INVISIBLE ZOO which enjoyed radio airplay of their pop tune "Synthesizer Man" and he performed with it as recently as last October when he and I played live at the the Sacred Elixirs Festival at the San Jose Convention Center."

Update via Loren in the comments: "I use to have that album. You forgot to add Steve Roach as another person who played with these guys. I know Steve played in MOBIUS and I think he made a guest appearance on the LEM album if my memory is correct."

Update: more from Peter Grenader of Plan B:
"A bit more trivia about one part of that photo - the Steiner-Parker
Synthasystem shown in the photo to the left of the robot's ear. - that was
Alex Cima's..

After Alex stopped rep'ing Steiner Parker in Southern California, this
system became the property of John Waddell, who already had one other and
along with a VCS3, were being used for the Electronic Music Studies
department of Birmingham High School in the SF Valley, LA. John was my very
first EM mentor and is wholeheartedly responsible for me being accepted to
CalArts as he pushed me to enter a concert competition that Alex hosted. I
did, I made it, I submitted that to Cal Arts, I made that. Waddell gave me
the best music theory instruction I've ever had, up to and including CIA.

John passed away four years ago, and willed that Steiner-Parker to
me...which I really loved and, although it's recently found a very good home
in Marina Del Ray. It's a great system.

Back about 1977 (?) Alex and I hosted a couple of EM concerts together, one
of which LEM performed live on the seond half. Cima and I also performed
live once with Emmett Chapman, which was one of the highlights of my
performance career. Oddly enough i didn't touch electronics on that one - i
was playing flute and sax, w/Alex on synths, this dreadful percussion player
Alex found and Chapman, who as usual played the stick like no other.

I ended up inheriting Alex's EM concert series, called Electronic
Explorations, after he had had enough. I did three or four of them, one
co-produced by John Waddell, which got that horrible review in Synapse by
Doug Lynner (of LEM) i've spoken about here before. The poster for that
event was done by a very good friend of Cynthia's at the time who used the
name of Sue Dinim (get it?) for her artwork credits.

Ain't it weird how the fabric of the LA electronic music scene was sewn?

Alex Cima is still around, teaching recording and electronic music at
Fullerton College and while he has long departed with his various Steiners,
still owns his Synthi AKS."

Pollard Syndrum QUAD Drum Synth

via this auction. Warning in case you are thinking of bidding: K/Modeless Factory on AH claims this to be an item he won and never received after paying. "This serial# says this IS what I won. Already reported to ebay.

Update via the comments: "For what it's worth, I believe those were the perfered synth drums of Yukihiro Takahashi of YMO."

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