Poly 61 hardware midi editor (Tauntek upgrade)

video upload by Craig Barnes

"I quickly built this encoder based hardware editor for Tauntek upgraded poly 61 boards, it's fairly simple and uses an ESP32 Dev board and io port expanders."

Kawai SX240 8 Voice Polyphonic Hybrid Synthesizer SN K-8963 w/ Extras

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Pics of the inside below.

"With Extras:

Tauntek O/S
Real Walnut side panels (very nice)
Pro-Serviced with new CR2032 battery this month (9/25)
Clean & pristine a true 9.9/10
Hard Case (case condition is Fair). not pictured
There were only a few hundred ever made of these!"

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Akai AX73 w/ Stereoping Controller and Tauntek OS Firmware CPU

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"Fully tested, perfect working condition. Has some cosmetic imperfections including 'Family Bible Church, San Jose' etched on top panel (see photos). Priced accordingly."

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Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar w/ Tauntek MIDI

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"FRESHLY SERVICED! keybed cleaned, all pots cleaned, new battery, Tauntek MIDI added.

This is hands down my favorite mono synth of all time, such a unique instrument! Designed by Chris Hughes who also designed the WASP and several products for Novation among other things, IMO OSCar was his greatest product. I am only selling as I have two otherwise I'd never let it go! Hands down the best analog dual multi-mode filter in existence! There's additive synthesis in the way of building waveforms by adding harmonics, there's presets, there's an amazing sequencer and arppegiater, there's duophonic functionality. You can get all kinds of crazy vowel/vocal sounds."

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Kawai / Teisco SX240 with Tauntek OS & New Memory Battery

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Full Tuantek info & specs below.

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Roland Jupiter 6 w/ Tauntek OS Upgrade

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"Fully functional and near Mint cosmetic condition Roland Jupiter-6. I am hesitant to use the word Mint to describe any vintage synth but this is pretty damn close. It almost looks like it came straight out the box in 1983. It features a new Tauntek OS upgrade which improves upon the original JP6 firmware. Unlike Europa this is not complete rewrite, but an upgrade which adds:

MIDI sysex patch storage
MIDI CC parameter changes
New VCO toggling
And much more! Read about it on the Tauntek website.

This JP-6 has been serviced to preserve the reliability for another lifetime of studio use."

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Italo discoing Poly 61 (with Tauntek MIDI mod)

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video upload by ohm_studi_ohm

"Quick 80s inspired tune mainly to demonstrate the MIDI sync capabilities of the Tauntek MIDI kit.
(http://www.tauntek.com/Poly61.htm)
It's a basic MIDI kit that adds MIDI IN notes and Arp Sync control to the Poly 61, as well as MIDI receive channel. These features makes already a big differrence over a stock Poly 61, or over a Poly 61M which though has MIDI implemented only works in OMNI mode and don't let you sync the arp over MIDI.
All synth sound are from the Poly 61, drums and MIDI clock are provided by the Oberheim DX."

via this listing, also on eBay

Pic of the inside below.

"6 voices analog polysynth, serviced and upgraded with a Tauntek Midi interface.

The upgrade lets you play notes over midi and also synchronise the built-in arpeggiator to MIDI clock !

Unit was serviced and is in fully working condition. It did suffer the classic battery leaking but was fixed and a brand new battery was fitted, along with factory presets.

Cosmetic is overall very good, except for the side cheeks that are damaged, and a key that was glued but barely noticeable, see pictures. Otherwise a very clean unit."

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Korg Poly 61 with Tauntek CPU board upgrade

video upload by ohm_studi_ohm

"demo of a Korg Poly 61 that was recently upgraded with Tauntek's new CPU board (www.tauntek.com/Poly61newKLM.htm) which adds several functions to the synth that make it more versatile.
As well as extended parameters value range and MIDI Control Change for every parameter, there are some more waveform available for LFO1, DCO2 and a second LFO with 4 possible waveforms (this LFO is permanetly assigned to PWM and can be assigned to DCO pitch modulation instead of LFO1. The latter is always assigned to VCF modulation).
Other nice features are the possibilty to desactivate DCO1, MIDI synchronising the arpeggiator, random mode for the arpeggiator, the ability to use INC/DEC switches to select programs, 80 users programs (vs 64), MIDI OUT and THRU etc Nothing fancy in this video, just live editing the synth to showcase some of the new features."

Akai AX80 with realtime MIDI controller

video upload by ohm_studi_ohm

"Demo of the Akai AX80 8 voices analog synth with Tauntek upgraded firmware that allows among other improvements MIDI Control Change editing of all the synth parameters.
Just tweaking a bit on a bass preset and a pad preset, and further demoing a few patches I made. No FX were used."

Siel Opera 6 w/ Original Box & Tauntek Firmware

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"Serviced Siel Opera 6 in excellent condition with original box.

New battery, cleaned contact springs, re-capped power supply, some circuit board traces re-made and cleaned.

Factory preset sounds are loaded, the voices are calibrated to specs.

Upgraded to Tauntek firmware for optimized MIDI implementation.

Condition is excellent - with some light oxidation of front panel and a few scratches.

Box has wear and signs of age."

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Oberheim OB-1 Demo/For Sale (by synthpro)

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video upload by synthpro

"Hey Guys, In this video, I go over a very cool little Oberheim OB-1 I have been working on between all my other projects. As you can see in this video, its a great playing little synth once more after being dead for many years.

This particular synth belongs to David Ewing who played with Brenda Lee for 30+ years so this synth also has some awesome history behind it.

Here is a link to Tauntek's page on the OB-1 for those interested or struggling with your own repairs: http://www.tauntek.com/OB1.htm

here is the link to the listing:
https://reverb.com/item/80072356-ober..."

Seuential Circuits TOM with Tauntek TOM16 extansion

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"The Sequential TOM was already a great drum machine at the time it was released, with a lot of nice features, especially regarding MIDI implementation. You could play, record, synchronise the machine over MIDI and adjust sample direction, volume, pitch and pan of every sample either on the device or over MIDI, in real time and for every step ! That gives you lots of possible variations. Not many drum machines could could achive that at the time.

And now thanx to another amazing engineering by Tauntek you can have 16 kits in the instrument at all time, without the need to switch cartridges. And even more important: you can swap the internal kit samples as well as the cartridge ones, enabling for any combination of 2 kits you wish. This is impossible with cartridges or other upgrade available, and only possible thanx to Tauntek firmware. And that makes a huge difference. Note that you can only have 15 sounds at hand not 16. The 8th pad from the cartridge layer is always a trigger out message and won't trigger a sound, even if the loade kit has 8 sounds.

You can even make your own kits if you have access to an Eprom programmer.
Check Tauntek dedicated page for more info (http://www.tauntek.com/TOM16cart.htm)
This unit also had its RAM maxed out, expanding the internal 8k to 32k and thus bringing the stock 2,300 notes capacity to a whopping 10,400. And believe me you run very quickly out of memory if you make some complex patterns with different variations.

So here is the demo, i didn't make patterns demos for each of the 16 kits but you'll get the idea, and I didn't go too deep into external MIDI playing/programming but bare in mind you can record instrument tuning pitch, volume, pan and sample direction (reverse) for every instrument on every step.

Here is the timeline:
00:00 stock kit patterns
02:28 TR808 kit patterns
03:56 TR909 kit patterns
05:08 TR606 kit patterns
06:25 CR78 kit patterns
07:17 sound preview of all the kits included in the box
11:18 quick realtime patterns programming using external pads

list of the kits included in the TOM16:
SCI Internal
SCI Basic Percussion
SCI Contemporary
SCI Latin Percussion
SCI Special Effects
Drumware Rock Drums
Drumware Techno Drums
Drumware Orchestral
Drumware Percussion 3
Drumware Hippefex
Drumware Analog Drums
Roland TR808
Roland TR909
Roland CR78A
Roland CR78B
Roland TR606"

Akai AX60 w/ Tauntek Mod + Custom Wood Sides

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Siel: Firmware 10+CC and Editors max for live Logic Reaktor BCR2000 for Opera6 Kiwi DK600 Expander

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"neue Möglichkeiten für Siel Opera6, Kiwi, DK600 und Expander:
danke der neuen Firmware10+CC von Bob Grieb, www.Tauntek.com
und neuen Editoren für Max for Live von Clemens Bergthaller, Atlantik; Logic Audio, Reaktor und einem Patch für die Behringer BCR2000 sind dies Synthis über midi automatisierbar, Sounds lassen sich über Midi speichern u laden. Das Video zeigt die neuen Features, viel Spaß"

Googlish:

"new possibilities for Siel Opera6, Kiwi, DK600 and Expander:
thanks to the new Firmware10+CC from Bob Grieb, www.Tauntek.com
and new editors for Max for Live by Clemens Bergthaller, Atlantik; Logic Audio, Reaktor and a patch for the Behringer BCR2000, these synths can be automated via midi, sounds can be saved and loaded via midi. The video shows the new features, have fun"

Akai AX80 with Tauntek OS SN 00620-36534

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"AX80 polyphonic synthesizer with Tauntek firmware installed for realtime modulation of parameters via MIDI CC. Includes Akai operator's manual and other supplemental materials. Original firmware EEPROM is included as well. Please review the pictures for the item's cosmetic condition. The display meters are functioning correctly, and everything else is working as expected."

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How to POLYCHAIN The Oberheim Matrix 1000 + Install the MASSIVE Tauntek 1.2 firmware upgrade!!!

video upload by Vintage Synthesizer Solutions

Note the Matrix-1000 has 1000 presets, but only the first 200 are user programmable.

"The Oberheim Matrix 1000 has been around since 1988, but did you know that it can be polychained with up to 5 other units?!? This is not a simple MIDI In/Thru setup... One unit must set as the master and then distributes the incoming note data evenly between itself and each of the slaves. Matrix 6 and 6Rs can join the party too, but only as slave units.

We also demonstrate how to upgrade these units with the @Tauntek 1.20 OS upgrade. Add in a @Kiwitechnics patch editor and you've got a monster vintage analog synthesizer. Enjoy our quick demonstration of 3 x Matrix 1000s: 18 voices & 36 DCOs of creamy Oberheim goodness..."

Akai AX80 Synthesizer

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"Perfect conditions, Just completely overhauled!, and updated with OS Tauntek"

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Kawai SX-240 w/ Tauntek Firmware

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"Just back from a check-up and battery check. New Tauntek Firmware installed and factory presets loaded. Excellent condition - a few dings on the side panels and a some buttons needs a bit of warming up sometimes, this is common for the SX-240."

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AX60 Tauntek Installation // Issues Solved with Modern Firmware

video upload by Jorb

"http://www.tauntek.com/AX60.htm

Undeniably impressive work, happy to show it off, even for a bit.

I also have a chip for an AX73 mod, but there's not much of an installation to demonstrate, just plugs in."

SCI Tom Sequential Circuits Tauntek MikeSynth

video upload by Mikus Pilatus

"Quick demo of a Tom doing an 808 style beat"