SCI Six Trak Service Manual

Title link takes you to the 4.06M PDF of the SCI Six Trak Service Manual. Via Midi Mike of http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2163. Thanks Mike!

Update: also here

Microns & Ion - New Flickr Shot

Title link takes you to a bigger shot.

The Screamers - Synthesizer Punk Rock

There is an intersting thread going on AH titled, "Best punk use of synth." A number of bands were called out, some of which were questioned as far as whether or not they were punk in the classic sense of punk. Well, the Screamers definitely were classic punk. They had a small stint in the late 70s in Los Angeles. They were a four piece band with Tomata Du Plenty - Vocals (R.I.P.), Tommy Gear - ARP Odyssey, David Braun - Fender Rhodes electric piano, and KK Barett - Drums. The Screamers were a band from 1977 - 1981. Notice no guitar or bass guitar, just the ARP Odyssey, Fender Rhodes and drums. Title link takes you to the Screamers page on http://www.punkrockers.com with some audio links (just above the pictures). Listen to them. What's crazy is that there are no guitars - this is not a bleepy synth experience, this is classic punk rock.



Other links worth checking out:

http://www.synthpunk.org/screamers
http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/Q-T/screamers.html
http://www.mp3.com/the-screamers/artists/334431/biography.html
http://www.synthpunk.org/

Inside a Prophet 10 - New Flickr Set

New Flickr set via Brandon Daniel on AH.

Update via Brandon in the comments: "note that this is a special kind of prophet 10, most of them had dual keyboards on them, only very early ones had a single keyboard"

The original Prophet 10 was essentially two Prophet 5s in a Prophet 5 case. It suffered from tuning instabilities due to tempature issues in the small case. A larger cased dual manual keyboard followed to take care of this problem. These shots as Brandon calls out is of the older single model.

NIN Gear Page for The Fragile

Title link via Kieth Seaman. < Old Man Voice> "Yap, I remember seein' NIN back in the day... a lil ole club called Helter Skelter. He had dreads and performed in a cage back then... Yap.... " < /Old Man Voice> At least I think it was Helter Skelter. It's all kind of fuzzy now. It was off of Sunset Blvd in LA if I remember correctly, so if you know please refresh my memory. But... I do remember seeing K.C. And the Sunshine band reunion at club 70s. Now that was a suprisingly good show... To be fair, NIN put on a hell of a show back then, amazing. But... Let's all remember, Skinny Puppy "taught the killing game first." Well before the likes of Madonna, oops I mean Marilyn Manson. Same thing right?

Carbon111 Site Update

Title link takes you there. If you haven't checked out Carbon111's site yet, you should. The site includes pages on the DSI Evolver, Waldorf Microwave XT, Serge, and Roland Juno-60. These are in depth pages including wavetable charts for both the Waldorf Microwave and DSI Evolver. There are some nice shots of his Rusty Insects studio and more including some of his visual art and of course his music. Enjoy.

Korg Polysix - New Flickr Shots

Title link takes you to a couple of nice Korg Polysix pics.

ARP 2600 Site

Nice ARP 2600 site I haven't seen before. Includes a photo gallery, mods, links, owners and service manuals, brochures and more. Title link takes you there.

Novachord Restoration Project

I previously posted on the Novachord Restoration project back on 10/03/05. Looks like the project is finished! There are some amazing samples up. Title link takes you there. Phil Cirocco of EMS did a fantastic job in this. Listen to the samples and realize that this synth is from 1939. This is absolutely astonishing. This really is about as awe inspiring as it gets in the synth world.

Update: Via Michael E Calaroso on AH:
"John Hanert was the designer of the Novachord, who also brought us spring reverb and the scanner vibrato and percussion of B3 fame. Vail's Hammond book has an entire chapter devoted to the Novachord. Apparently the prototype was velocity sensitive, but that feature was omitted from production models following a demo to a Hammond executive where he decided he heard no difference whether velocity sensing was on or off. Now I would've like to seen how Hanert implemented velocity sensing in 1939 :)

Some info from Dave Kean here:

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2002/0801/mus4.htm

MC"

Red Dragon - Free Virtual Synth

Intwesting.... Title link takes you to the news on Synthtopia.