Korg DS-10 Synthesizer

YouTube via solovideosjuegos. "Is music"

synthesizers.com with a modified Q963 trigger bus

YouTube via angelometz
"I got the q963 last friday. Performed the mod yesterday. I used the dotcom WF kit and installed a switch to turn the mod on and off. Find info here: www.synthesizers.com"

Anyware Semtex XL

via this auction

1978 Aries Modular Synth

via this auction

"If you are reading this, you know all about the Moog, Buchla, Arp, etc. synthesizer craze of the Early 70’s. But these synths were expensive. Some companies decided to make modular synthesizers available at a slightly less astronomical price by offering them in kit form. At the low end was PAiA and at the high end was Aries. Aries was only in business for a few years, but they were considered the best modular kits of their day.

While I was building my PAiA, a more well-heeled friend of mine built this Aries. However, he was a real electronics genius and made some modifications to his keyboard and input stage so that he could run it as a polyphonic synth using a microprocessor. This was a fairly advanced idea at this point in time.

After he played around with it and got bored with it, it went into his parents’ attic where it remained untouched for 30 or so years. It was given to me during a recent attic cleaning.

Here is a list of modules:
1 Keyboard
3 VCOs
1 Dual LFO/Lag inverter
1 S&H Clock/Noise Generator
2 envelope generators
1 balanced modulator
1 dual mixer
2 multimode filters
1 phase/flange
1 stereo (spring) reverb/Output
1 VCA
2 unknown & unlabeled modules - these are probably custom interface modules for the keyboard/microprocessor, but I don't know since they have no labels."

Da Bear!

flickr by e-325

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Roland Juno-106

Synth-DIY 2008 Cambridge/UK Impressions

SonicstateTV by Noiseconformist
"A little collage with impressions from the recent Synth-DIY meeting in Cambridge/UK.
With a little more focus on the DIY aspect. (Link to the original HD720p movie file will follow - stay tuned!)"

Oberheim 4voice

flickr by PS Project
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My "new" R.A. Moog

flickr by PS Project
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Stevie Wonder Pappa Was a Rolling Stone with talkbox

YouTube via BMZSOUL. Thanks goes to Failed Muso for this great find.
I'm guessing he's driving the ARP 2600 in the background.

Cynthia Programmer

"Back in March of 1977 the delightful Mr Serge Tcherepnin wrote a do it yourself article in Synapse Magazine for a handy control voltage "Programmer" module. Playfully he published it using the alias of Mr. "Arpad Benares" and now close to thirty-years later we are pleased to offer the very same Benares Programmer fully assembled in Modcan A-series banana format as a very limited edition!

Putting this wonderful nostalgia aside for a moment, this Programmer is a terrifically useful tool for your modular. Think of it as a Sequencer with five stages of four knobs each. You can access the stages sequentially, or individually, and in any random order of your choosing by either driving the Programmer to a specific stage with an input pulse or with your finger using its big sexy industrial crisp-action LED pushbuttons.

Each button has an individual Gate Output to activate other modules in your system, and there is a Common Pulse Out jack to fire your envelope generator no matter which of the buttons is pushed for traditional keyboard applications. Actually you can put several of these double wide Programmers in rows to form even longer keyboards!

For convenience the original design has been updated to include white Strobe Up and Strobe Down jacks. A fun new way of sequencing can be explored by putting different LFOs into both jacks at once - for push-me pull-you tug-of-war type rhythms and melodies like "three notes forward, and one back".

Programmers can of course be used to play four-part melodies or pre-programmed chords, but they are often used to control other various parameters of a large patch such as the cut-off frequency or resonance of filters, or the amount of lag, or or the speed of a clock, or the wave selection of a MiniWave module, or literally any handful of things that need to be pre-programmed for big sweeping changes instantly, (in a live performance for example).

If you need more than two hands for major shifts in your music, just Program it!"
Programmer on Cyndustries