PPG Waveterm Synthesizer Monitor W/ Flight Case

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Update: price dropped to $2500

"First things first: No! This is not a sticker or fu$&ing refrigerator magnet! This is an actual genuine real life PPG Waveterm Synthesizer. Monitor unit only, I don’t have the keyboard that goes with it, nor do I have any other hardware or software that this machine may require.

I honestly don’t know anything about this machine other than it’s very rare. It was amongst a whole bunch of various stuff left in a storage unit I purchased. Did a tiny amount of research on the item and am now selling it.

As seen in the pics, it does power right up and the screen works just fine. Thats all I know for a fact that it does. I have no way and/or knowledge of how to test the rest of its capabilities, but it comes on as soon as it’s turned on, doesn’t make a peep while on, doesn’t omit any strange odors, so I’m confident it will in fact do any and everything it was originally designed to do...... with the proper hardware that, again, does not come with this unit.

***The stated asking price is not for real. I’ve had trouble trying to price this thing and was hoping any interested parties could message me what they think it’s probably worth and/or make an offer, or at the very least I can have it on here longer than 7-10 days so as to hopefully drum up more interest before I either lower the price or re-list it as an auction.

It is safe and secure and ready for travel in its fitted rack mount flight case, made by Calzone.

Total weight on this unit in the case is 78 1/2 lbs, which means it will have to be mailed via Freight. It will be mailed via FedEx or UPS, I’m not trusting the USPS to deliver it safely. It will be insured for the final selling price. It’s dimensions are 27”x 20” x 19”."

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ROSEN SOUND - Synth Studio & Repair Shop Tour | Burbank, California

Published on Aug 8, 2019 synth4ever

Check out the custom Chrome Arp Odyssey AT 12:36.

"An in-depth synth studio and repair shop tour of Rosen Sound (www.rosensound.com) in Burbank, California.

Founded and owned by Rob Rosen, Rosen Sound is a premiere synthesizer repair & restoration shop that specializes in servicing vintage analog synthesizers. They also offer synth rentals, custom synth modifications, on-site studio recording, and have various synthesizers and replacement parts for sale.

This in-depth synth studio and repair shop tour covers the history of Rosen Sound, synth restoration processes, various synths being restored in the shop, the "Cabin" recording studio and woodworking rooms, and Rob's favorite synths.

Rosen Sound provides both national and international synth repair and restoration services, and is well known for employing top technicians and servicing rare and difficult to repair synths. If your vintage synth is in need of repair, don't hesitate to contact them.

To learn more about Rosen Sound, visit them at:

www.rosensound.com

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TIMECODES
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0:00 - Intro

0:45 - History of Rosen Sound
2:32 - Synth servicing
3:29 - Yamaha GX-1
4:18 - Difficult repairs
5:45 - Yamaha CS-80
8:01 - Rob's favorite synth
8:26 - Synths for repair (Prophet 5, Jupiter 8, Arp Quadra, Yamaha CS-60)
10:05 - Waldorf Wave
11:06 - Rob's music
11:31 - What's next for Rosen Sound
12:00 - Custom modifications (Chrome Arp Odyssey)
13:24 - Woodworking and tolex room
14:13 - Yamaha Electone organ
15:04 - Modern synth repairs
16:38 - The Cabin recording studio (under construction)
17:45 - Employees
18:28 - Synths for sale
18:47 - Prophet T8, PPG Wave, Korg Polysix
19:06 - Roland Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, Roland Juno 106
19:19 - Oberheim Four Voice, Prophet 10
20:20 - Electrocomp EML 101, Kawai K3
20:38 - Oberheim OB-X, Roland JX-3P, Behringer Deepmind 12
21:14 - Oberheim OB-Xa, Roland Jupiter 4, Roland SH-5
21: 39 - 2x Prophet 5 (REV 1)
22:50 - Junkie XL's PPG Waveterm
23:05 - Contacting Rosen Sound

23:42 - Conclusion"

Synthesized - Computers & Synthesizers Event Set for June 22 & 23 in Cambridge

via The Centre for Computing History

"Synthesized celebrates the computer and synthesiser - and how the two technologies grew up together.

The two technologies have crossed paths many times since the CSIRAC mainframe played the 'Colonel Bogey March' in 1951. The mighty Fairlight CMI, the PPG and the humble Dragon 32 both share the same processor - as do the Moog Source, Prophet-5 and the ZX Spectrum.

By 1990, the Atari ST found its way into almost every recording studio. Technologies from the flagship Yamaha DX7 and Roland D-50 found their way into almost every PC sound card of the 1990s. Today, modern computers can emulate almost any classic synthesiser with near perfect accuracy.

Without computers we wouldn’t have FM, wavetable, additive and phase distortion synthesis - or even be able to save the sounds on our analog synthesiser.

Last year we were lucky enough to have a Fairlight CMI, a PPG Waveterm and a Greengate DS4 together in the same room. We even had Colin Holgate from Greengate and John Molloy from 80s band Mainframe to demonstrate it to us!

This year we hope the event will be even bigger, even better, even noisier and will have more wonderful synthesisers for everyone to see and use! To get you all in the mood, here's some pictures from last year's event."

Gorgeous PPG setup, including a rare Waveterm and Processor Keyboard FD.

You can find a few previous posts featuring Synthesized including video via the Synthesized label.

PPG Waveterm 1985 Blue

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1983 PPG Wave 2.3

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"Serviced, new backlight, new battery. keyboard bushings supplied, not fitted - i may get around to doing this. OS 8.3 supplied but can provide OS 6 too. Some prefer OS 6 before the LFO, which is computer generated, is further compromised. Voice cards have new trimmers.

2.3 is the same as 2.2 contrary to myths on forums, save it is only 12-bit when utilised with the Waveterm for samples and it has a multimode. The wavetables are 8-bit as on the 2.2. Most of the time you will boot into 2.2 mode. SSM2044 filters, superb sound and huge stereo field."

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PPG Wave 2.2 / Waveterm A System (1982) Resynthesis, Sampling, Fourier Analysis, How to video

Published on Sep 25, 2018 RetroSound

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

How to video:
Sampling with the PPG Wave System from 1982.
The video shows the sample analysis and programming of new wave and wavetables for the PPG wave 2.2 Synthesizer.

The Waveterm is the heart of the legendary PPG system and based on an old german computer called Eltec Eurocom II with Motorola 6809 processor.

- creation of Waves and Wavetables
- fourier analysis / resonator
- additive synthesis
- 8 bit Sampling for the WAVE 2.2
- sequencer / event generator
- storage of sounds on 8" disc"

Salyut - 1 / Салют-1 by Soviet Space Child

"This track is a demo/tribute to the Waldorf MicroWave XTk, which is my favorite digital synthesizer of all time. All of the instruments on this track are from my Waldorf MicroWave XTk 30, and the drums are samples taken from the PPG Waveterm. The drums and strings were processed through an Eventide H3000 D/SE, and there are two Roland RE-501 Chorus Echoes on the FX bus configured in stereo operation. All of the tracks were tracked and mixed through an analog mixer, with analog EQ and compression on the mix bus.

The Salyut- was the first ever space station to be launched into orbit:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_1"

PPG wave system demonstation cassette (1984) Waveterm demo

Published on Mar 5, 2018 RetroSound

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demo

From my archive. The PPG wave 2.3 demonstrations cassette from the year 1984 including PPG wave sounds, demo sequences, demo songs.

The pictures are from my archive too and show adverts and brochures to the Wave, Waveterm, PRK keyboards and EVUs"

Update via swissdoc: you can wav files of the tape here.

PPG Waveterm System (1982) waves, wavetables, sampling, resynthesis

Published on Jan 16, 2018 RetroSound

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

PPG Waveterm A and Wave 2.2 Wavetable Synthesizer from the year 1982.

Only 500 Waveterm A&B are made in the early 80s
price WT-A: 15.000 DM

The Waveterm is the heart of the legendary PPG system and based on an old german computer called Eltec Eurocom II with Motorola 6809 processor.

- creation of Waves and Wavetables
- fourier analysis / resonator
- additive synthesis
- 8 bit Sampling for the WAVE 2.2
- sequencer / event generator
- storage of sounds on 8" disc

this demo video shows only a few functions (creation of waves, wavetables) of the Waveterm.
More coming soon."

RetroSound Vintage Synthesizer Channel on YouTube - Trailer Featuring the PPG Waveterm

Published on Jan 4, 2018 RetroSound

Cool trailer from RetroSound featuring the PPG Waveterm as the video screen. MATRIXSYNTH gets a shout out in the description below!

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demos by RetroSound

Thank you for all the likes, comments and for your time! :)

Especially a big thank you to Jones from matrixsynth.com http://www.matrixsynth.com/ and UVI http://bit.ly/retrosound-uvi for the support.

No religion! No borders! Enjoy the music, leaf a comment and subscribe when you like.

I will never call for donate or something but if you like my work then I'm happy if you support me and buy a music album.

Enjoy the videos!
Thank you. :)"

PPG Wave Collection *Original Brochure*

via this auction

Click the pics to read each.

wave 2.3 / prk
PRK FD processor keyboard
HDU hard disk unit
Waveterm B
PPG America Prices July 1986
PPG Realizer

Only two PPG Realizers were ever made.

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PPG PRK ROM Based Model Processor Keyboard

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"This is a very rare PPG PRK. It has not been used for many years and I have no way of testing if it is still working so you should assume it is not.

It is the ROM based model with classic samples from the Waveterm Library stored in ROM for fast loading and without the need for Waveterm.

'The PPG PRK was created for a number of reasons; firstly many PPG owners wanted to have velocity sensitivity when using their PPG synths - the PPG PRK offers this.
Also the 'closer-to-piano-feeling' was something that musicians wanted at this time - the PPG PRK offers this as well.

The PPG PRK also offered optional voice boards to be inserted into the unit.
This does not mean that the PPG PRK itself can create any sounds - but by inserting the optional sound cards you could send the information on these to the PPG Wave 2.2, PPG Wave 2.3 or PPG EVU.'

http://theppgs.com/prk.html"

PPG Wave System playaround @ Nerdlich 2017

Published on Mar 14, 2017 Torsten Abel

"Playaround with my PPG System in Synthpop style. Just noodling on a basic pattern.

Waveterm B, Wave2.2, Wave 2.3 and Wavemapper on PRK FD

Recorded at the Synthesizer Gathering "Nerdlich Der Mitte" 2017
Wallenhorst/Germany

http://www.sineamplitude.com"

PPG wave 2.2 Synthesizer + Waveterm A "Melancholic"

Published on Aug 31, 2016 RetroSound

"(c) 2016 vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound

all synthesizer sounds: PPG wave 2.2 Wavetable Synthesizer from the year 1982, Waveterm A incl. original WT-A Sample Library
recording: multi-tracking without midi
fx: reverb and delay"

PPG Waveterm A Monitor Sampler Drive for Wave 2.2 2.3 Synthesizer

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Published on Jul 7, 2016 Techno Empire

"This is an unscripted quick demo of some of the basic functions of the PPG Waveterm as given by tech Ed Miller. It's not meant to be instructional or entertaining, rather just a demo that it works as it is for sale."

via this auction

"This listing is for a very rare PPG Waveterm A Monitor. We have the privilege of selling this on behalf of famed Synthesist/Producer/Session man Michael Boddicker as it comes from his personal historic collection of awesome vintage gear.

More details below and for a short 'Demo' video of this very unit, go to Youtube: 'PPG Waveterm Monitor Demo'" [embed above]

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PPG Wave Synthesizer Vorführung und Geschichte

Published on Jan 6, 2016 Torsten Abel

"Stephen Parsick und Torsten Abel führen den PPG Wavecomputer 360 und das PPG Wave System, bestehend aus Wave 2.3 mit Waveterm B, bei einer spontanen gemeinsamen Improvisation vor. Desweiteren erzählt Stephen etwas zur Geschichte von PPG und Torsten zu den Möglichkeiten des Wave Systems.

Alles natürlich ohne Gewähr auf Vollständig-, sowie Richtigkeit. (Wir hoffen nicht allzu viel Quatsch erzählt zu haben)

Aufgenommen beim Dinosaurier-Synthesizer Treffen 2015 in Bocholt/Deutschland"

Googlish:

"Stephen Parsick and Torsten Abel cause the PPG Wave Computer 360 and the PPG Wave system consisting of Wave 2.3 with Waveterm B, during a spontaneous joint improvisation. Furthermore, Stephen tells something about the history of PPG and Torsten to the possibilities of Wave Systems.
Everything, of course, no guarantee for completeness, correctness and. (We hope to have not told too much nonsense)
Recorded at Dinosaur Synthesizer meeting in 2015 in Bocholt / Germany "

PPG Waveterm B CRT start up glow

Published on Oct 22, 2015 Analogue Solutions

"strictly for PPG nerds"

Trip. Here's something you definitely don't see every day.

Complete PPG Wave 2.3 System for Sale - Wave 2.3, Waveterm B & PRK FD Keyboard

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via this auction

"Here for sale a RARE OPPORTUNITY to have a complete ppg 2.3 system in fully working condition.
PPG 2.3 plus Waveterm B plus prk fd keyboard

the prk turns on but it doesn't play because I don't have the OS floppy .

it comes with more than 50 Original floppy, connection cables and a DVD with manual and original sounds.
the prk has a flight case.

for every question Don the esitate to contact me"

Contact the seller on eBay, not me. Just thought the wording was a little funny so I included it here as well.

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RetroSound - A View Into The Heart - Vintage Synths

Published on Mar 19, 2015 RetroSound

Direct synth playing with various synths starts at 4:31 in the video.

"(c) 2015 Electronic Music by RetroSound

25 audio tracks, wav audio (16Bit/44,1kHz), total time: 74:35min

All tracks produced with the following Vintage Synthesizers, Analog Stringmachines and Drumcomputer:

PPG Wave 2.2
PPG Waveterm A
Oberheim OB-X
Oberheim OB-Xa
Moog Source
Moog Prodigy
Moog Minimoog
Moog Taurus 1
SCI Pro-One
SCI Prophet VS
Roland Juno-60
Roland Jupiter-4
Roland VP-330
Roland D-50
Roland JD-800
Roland TR-707
Roland TR-808
LinnDrum
Korg Polysix
Korg KR-55B
Korg DR-55
Yamaha DX7 II FD
Tiracon 6V
Logan String Melody II"

Happy New Year From MATRIXSYNTH! - A Look Back at 2014

Happy New Year everyone!

I want to start by thanking everyone that comes to MATRIXSYNTH and helps make it what it is - the readers, the supporters, and of course all the sponsors on the right.

THANK YOU and have a GREAT 2015!!!

This site is a labor of love and a ton of work. This site is ultimately meant to be an testament to everything synth in the making. We have over nine years of daily synth history captured here, 119,983 published posts. I can't wait to see what the future brings us in 2015!

That said, here are a few interesting bits from 2014 in the longest post of the year. ;)

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