DS8 Drumstream — PlayStation Vita Drum Machine Walkthrough

video upload by Intermynd Instruments

"In this livestream I walk through DS8 Drumstream, a drum machine and groovebox for the PlayStation Vita.

I cover the main features in the current build, including the 8 drum tracks, step sequencing, voice editing, per-step automation, pattern tools, insert effects, send effects, master effects, and some of the performance controls built around the Vita’s physical buttons.

DS8 is still in active development, so this is an early look at the workflow, sound, and overall direction of the project.

Download DS8 Drumstream on itch.io:
https://intermynd-instruments.itch.io...

Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests:
https://itch.io/t/6450352/feedback-bu...

More from Intermynd Instruments:
https://intermynd-instruments.com/"

LARKING — Quantized Ambient Drone Instrument

video upload by recoverysounds

www.recoveryeffects.com

"Larking is a 4 voice ambient drone synthesizer that redefines what a playable synth can be. Pitch is quantized, with each voice locking to a selectable key and one of eight musical modes for consistent harmonic control.

A standalone instrument for immediate tactile performance and tonal exploration, Larking functions as a sound design tool, performance instrument, or central voice in effects based setups. It integrates easily into pedalboard systems and complex signal chains.

Without traditional keys, it shifts focus from fixed patterns to guided harmonic discovery. Voices can be triggered via onboard controls, gate inputs, or MIDI, supporting hands on playing, modular systems, and sequencing.

Each voice features independent pitch control that snaps to scale degrees, enabling open ended melodic movement within a stable musical framework.

At its core is a morphing tonal engine. The Shape control moves each voice from a warm sine like foundation into harmonic saturation with analog style overtones, grit, and complexity, delivering a deep resonant low end with strong weight and bass response. Attack and Decay shape voice response from percussive rhythmic strikes to slow evolving swells that dissolve into space.

A global LFO modulates pitch across all voices, from subtle drift to extreme instability. Onboard reverb expands everything into a deep spatial field and atmospheric wash. The result is an instrument between a melodic synth, drone machine, and experimental performance tool, grounded in musical structure and open to pitch based exploration."

Turning the Perkons HD-01 Into a Drone Synth

video upload by Mark Cee

"Drone sounds never really appealed to me until I started studying textures. Over time I became drawn to the idea — and to the tools used to compose this way. What I didn't realize is that I've had a very capable drone synth right under my nose for the last 3 years.
The Perkons HD-01 is usually known as a drum machine, but each voice is so much more which makes it great for sustained, evolving textures. I tuned each voice and sent it all through my Meris Mercury X for reverb. I couldn't help adding a few notes from the OP-1 Field on top. After that I just jammed and was reminded how the simplicity of an instrument like this never grows old. It's been my buddy since the day it was released and still brings me a lot of joy to this day."

JP-8000 vs Nord Lead A1 vs Access Virus B — Which One Do You ACTUALLY Need?

video upload by Marc Renton

"The elephant in the room: Roland JP-8000, Clavia Nord Lead A1, and Access Virus B: Three legendary hardware synths from the late 90s/2000s that still hold up today. But which one is worth your money in 2026?

In this video, I go hands-on with all three machines from my studio, playing patches, presets, and sounds I programmed myself. No script, no BS — just honest thoughts after owning these synths for up to 21 years.

What you'll learn:
JP-8000: SuperSaw magic, but what are the real limitations of the filter?
Nord Lead A1: Why it's my go-to synth — and why the Moog filter is a game changer
Access Virus B: The all-in-one machine with 24-voice polyphony... and where it hits a wall
Should you buy hardware or use emulations? (honest take)

These are timeless machines. This knowledge will be valid in 10 or 20 years. Maybe some plugins won't exist by then — but these synths will.

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lil' dream organ wenge/walnut/oak small batch

video upload by ellitone instruments

Video re-uploaded as ellitone - lil’ dream organ - walnut and wenge *limited edition*

"*small batch - only 8 available - made from wenge/walnut/oak wood

ellitone.com

The ellitone lil' dream organ is a limited edition battery-powered polyphonic digital synthesizer with built-in amplified speaker.

Featuring 8 wooden Touch Bars, 16 oscillators, 8 selectable musical scales, and a collection of 50 waveforms to explore and blend using the ‘infinite tone’ knob. the lil dream organ is a fun and powerful electronic instrument capable of many tones and textures, simple enough for a youngster or beginner to operate.

Controls:

-‘infinite tone’ knob blends and mixes 2 separate layers of waveforms together. Each layer consists of 8 oscillators and each layer has its own unique selected waveform. As you turn the knob fully clockwise or fully counterclockwise, a new waveform is chosen from a collection of 50 waveforms and applied to one of the 2 layers. This means that you are infinitely blending in-between new combinations of waveforms continuously.

-musical scale select switches. 3 toggle switches at the top of the device are used to select one of the 8 musical note scales. These three switches operate using binary logic. With 3 switches, we have 8 unique combinations of switch positions (on/off/on…off/off/on…etc). Each one of these 8 possibilities selects a different musical scale to explore using the wooden Touch Bar keyboard notes.

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Parasite Drone 1

video upload by flightofharmony

https://flightofharmony.com

"I'm sick today, so no voice track. Brain was dead so I figured I'd noodle around a bit, and ended up realizing that - after spending three years focusing on developing, building, and delivering the Facehugger with no time to play anything - I had completely forgotten how much I love the Parasite Antifilter. It's my favorite module, no contest, and combining it with the Facehugger is unbeatable, in my mind. The slightest setting change can take you in entirely new directions.

This one uses basically the same external inputs as the last video but, instead of hitting the Input with the Facehugger, the input is a buzzy drone from an Infernal Noise Machine and the main Facehugger is driving the Low Frequency CV input. The rest is swapping where a sine LFO goes (the second olive cable), the other Facehugger (purple cable) and the step 7 gate from the main Facehugger. This all adds up to some great drones with transient melodies and rhythms.

It gets a little blah in the middle, but it picks back up again when a new drone is discovered later. I'm particularly pleased to have caught one of the Parasite Antifilter's coolest (and most frustrating) features: the charge-up effect. It begins around 11:18. These are where some new sound just builds up out of nowhere. This one was unusually persistent though. Often, they disappear if you change a setting and are very difficult to find again. It's not a filter you can just dial through quickly, you have to give each change a moment to see if it wants to build something else.

It's fun that I could say that this video is just me running a buzzy sound into a filter and sweeping the filter parameters with a stepped CV sequence and some LFOs."

TBD 16 teaser #superbooth26 #dadamachines #tbd16 #dsp #esp32 #groovebox #electronicmusic #synth

video upload by dadamachines

"Get ready for Superbooth 26! 🚀

Here's a sneak peek at the TBD 16 from https://dadamachines.com/ , a powerful new DSP-based groovebox and synthesizer powered by ESP32.

Come see us at Booth Z385 to see the TBD 16 in action. You won't want to miss this!"

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Whimsical Raps - Atrium - First Experiment - Completely Wild!

video upload by Richard Devine

"five voices of analog synthesis, controlled and modulated polytimbrally. We’ve taken ideas from our decade of modular exploration and rethought how we reach into polyphony.

Each voice is shaped by its harmonic energy while three core timbre modes push into richer territory. from simple suboctave and noise waves, through frequency modulation, to formant synthesis reimagined. all squeezed through a lowpass/gate combination, providing balance and occasionally emphasis.

no digital multi-effects here, just spectres in the machine. a novel configuration of three filters, two delays, and feedback. front and almost center — this resonant body is meant to be played. sequenceable, modulatable, while feeding back not just sound, but shape for unfolding cybernetics.

and to modulate! everything mappable to everything else, tactile input extended on the fly, mapping as a performance in itself. Sources are dynamically phased across voices and stretched in relative duration. gestures captured into five recorders, extending play rather than overriding it, all twisted in time at your whim.

Atrium is deeply learnable, and for those moments of quick change, instantly recallable. extensible with usb and midi and cv input."

https://atrium.whimsicalraps.com/

Twenties - Hybrid Setup Jam (Analog + Move)

video upload by 2-Minute Warning

"This one’s built around two main pieces of gear: the Vermona Perfourmer handling nearly all melodic duties (bass, plucks, lead), and the Ableton Move taking care of drums plus a few piano/strings layers.

You already know the Perfourmer is one of my all-time favorites, but the Move keeps surprising me: super versatile for a 4-track box, and I feel like it doesn’t get as much love as it deserves ❤️

Everything is sequenced from the Hapax, I skipped the Move’s internal sequencer this time as it's easier to control all the sequences only on one machine. The breaks come from the Hapax 'FILL' feature as usual.

I treated the Perfourmer like three separate instruments:
Voices 1 & 2 → plucks (through H90)
Voice 3 → bass (Apocalypse + Julianna)
Voice 4 → lead (Lofi Junky + BigSky + Pill for ducking)"

This Drum Machine Isn't Normal!

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"At Superbooth two years ago, as I was walking the halls I felt a hand on my shoulder and a voice said “oscillator sink, let me show you my groovebox”.

Now whatever gets conjured in your mind when you hear the phrase “groovebox” is probably not the Drop from Mad Sound Factory, but after a few minutes of patching and turning knobs I had it generating extremely aggressive gabber, and naturally I was hooked and named it one of my synths of the show.

In this video we’ll get to know Drop, how it works, how it sounds, how it plays with others - including a discussion of how to get banana jacks and euroracks to talk. As the video is long (because of course it is if it’s on my channel), I’ve added chapter markers throughout, and scattered some small no-talking demos throughout, both with drop as a solo instrument, and in ensemble with other instruments.

Transparency notice: Mad Sound Factory kindly sent the Drop to me for free for the purposes of making videos about it. I get to keep the unit, but no other payment was made for making the video and MSF have been given no editorial oversight for this video.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:14 The Tone Section
00:05:50 Interlude 1
00:06:42 The Noise Section
00:14:47 Interlude 2

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ellitone - lil' dream organ - (small batch)

video upload by ellitone instruments

"*small batch - only 7 available -

ellitone.com

The ellitone lil' dream organ is a limited edition battery-powered polyphonic digital synthesizer with built-in amplified speaker.

Featuring 8 wooden Touch Bars, 16 oscillators, 8 selectable musical scales, and a collection of 50 waveforms to explore and blend using the ‘infinite tone’ knob. the lil dream organ is a fun and powerful electronic instrument capable of many tones and textures, simple enough for a youngster or beginner to operate.

Controls:

-‘infinite tone’ knob blends and mixes 2 separate layers of waveforms together. Each layer consists of 8 oscillators and each layer has its own unique selected waveform. As you turn the knob fully clockwise or fully counterclockwise, a new waveform is chosen from a collection of 50 waveforms and applied to one of the 2 layers. This means that you are infinitely blending in-between new combinations of waveforms continuously.

-musical scale select switches. 3 toggle switches at the top of the device are used to select one of the 8 musical note scales. These three switches operate using binary logic. With 3 switches, we have 8 unique combinations of switch positions (on/off/on…off/off/on…etc). Each one of these 8 possibilities selects a different musical scale to explore using the wooden Touch Bar keyboard notes.

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Introducing Plinky 12 Blocks, Chords and Toadstep

video upload by Making Sound Machines

Additional videos below.

"We are super excited to introduce 3 new instruments today! Plinky 12 is a family of expressive polyphonic touch synthesizers. The three instruments are built around a shared synth engine. Designed by mmalex, it evokes the unmistakable melancholic sounds of the original Plinky. https://plinky12.com

Each instrument is designed in collaboration with a different synth maker, lending each panel a distinct playability and unique character.

Plinky 12 Chords is a harmonic inspiration machine. It lets you improvise melodies and chords, with expressive control over voicings, progressions, and immediate musical play. Created by Making Sound Machines, Chords is the panel for finding beautiful harmonic movement quickly.

Plinky 12 Toadstep is a 4-track step sequencer built for super funky riffs, experimental self-generative melodies, and good ol' Acid. Created by Toadstool Tech, the designer behind the Ectocore Eurorack module, Toadstep is fun, immediate and easy to jam with!

Plinky 12 Blocks is an open panel built for experimentation, with monome-grid compatibility, Plinky style touch synthesis, and a browser-based coding environment just a click away. While it comes with a fully playable design out of the gate, creator mmalex invites you to build your own adventure with this panel. If you can imagine it, you can make it!

In this video, Enrica and Roland from Making Sound Machines explore the three new Plinky 12 instruments: Blocks, Chords and Toadstep from left to right.

The track builds on a repeating loop created with the built-in sequencer on Plinky 12 Toadstep. The short sequence uses rhythmic step repeats, track step length and animated synth parameters to create an ostinato that keeps sonically evolving over the length of the track.

As the piece continues, Roland plays a progression of harmonies from the rainbow chord palette on Plinky 12 Chords, before launching a sequence that reharmonizes the loop heard from Toadstep. Enrica joins in playing sparkling arpeggios with her fingertips on Plinky 12 Blocks, the surface with the sunset colour-fade print.

As the track progresses, Roland plays a melodic line on Chords, then Enrica takes over with a melody on blocks. The Plinky 12 polyphonic play surface reads both play position and pressure of the touch. It enables bends and glides on the horizontal axis, while allowing for discrete arps in the vertical direction.

They end the piece with a tempo transition showcasing the septuplet feature on the internal sequencer."

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Animal Factory Dirty Mirror × Korg Monologue // Fuzz Synth Jam (No Talking)

video upload by Animal Factory Amplification

"Use headphones for this one! Animal Factory Dirty Mirror dual parallel fuzz pedal running a Korg Monologue analog synth — no talking, no post-processing, just raw tone. This was recorded in one take to bring out how the Dirty Mirror becomes an instrument in itself.

A love letter to shoegaze, noise, and harsh textures, the Dirty Mirror pairs a modified Shin-Ei Superfuzz (the "Burn" channel) with a heavily modded Big Muff Pi (the "Churn" channel), plus a pre-fuzz delay modulated by an internal LFO and envelope follower. Hand-built in Mumbai by Animal Factory Amplification and debuted at Superbooth 2025.

Here it's sculpting the Korg Monologue's aggressive analog voice into fuzzscapes, drones, seasick vibrato, and pitch-shifted square-wave chaos. Recorded dry — no EQ, no reverb, nothing but the pedal and the synth. Drums from an MFB Tanzmaus (not processed)

🎛 SIGNAL CHAIN
Korg Monologue → Animal Factory Dirty Mirror → interface"

Animal Factory Dirty Mirror Fuzz on MFB Tanzmaus | Dual Distortion Delay Jam

video upload by Animal Factory Amplification

"Use headphones or speakers with good bass! Dual fuzz chaos meets beat-driven synthesis! Watch the Animal Factory Dirty Mirror transform the MFB Tanzmaus drum machine with creative distortion and delay manipulation. This is pure experimentation—no tutorial, just sonic exploration.

Gear featured:
Animal Factory Dirty Mirror Dual Fuzz Pedal
MFB Tanzmaus Drum Machine

Not just a shoegaze and noise rock machine - the Dirty Mirror is the perfect fuzz for musicians exploring wall-of-fuzz sounds, experimental synthesis, drum machine effects processing, and unconventional gear combinations."

"The Dirty Mirror takes these two behemoths of sonic perversion and adds an extra layer of nasty – using the core circuit of our Coma Reactor Eurorack module.

This three footswitch, 15 knob pedal looks complicated – but it’s not:

The BURN Channel (left side) is based on our Chemical Burn circuit, a nastier FY-6 variant.

The CHURN channel (right side) is based on a heavily modded Big Muff Pi.

There is a short delay circuit before the fuzz circuits.

Both the fuzz circuits can switch between the input sound, 100% wet delayed sound or a blend of wet and dry.

The fuzz circuits are then mixed in parallel into a high-headroom output section.

For added sickness, the delay time can be modified by an envelope follower or LFO.

Choose your filthy reflection – from straight dual parallel fuzz textures, to seasick vibrato to long slow quasi-chorus phasey apocalyptica.

The delay can be used on its own for slapback, chorus and vibrato effects.

Yes, it can get very noisy.
No, you can’t do anything about it - so weep in pain and pleasure, and submit to the swarms of square waves that joyfully fill your room."

HOW TO Build a Portable Live Techno Rig (and Actually Perform With It)

video upload by SynthDad Music

"Turing machines are generative sequencers that create looped melodies that slowly evolve and change over time, perfect for techno. I'm using the Shroud of Turing from Flatsix Modular in my compact techno setup. It's a 1U turing machine with clever features like user-defined scales and the ability to save different scales to play. I'm using it with Shakmat Ballista Blast as the main voice . Ohmforce Bohm is the main kick and I play it against Shakmat Battering Ram for dual-kick fun."

HOW TO Build a Portable Live Techno Rig (and Actually Perform With It)

video upload by SynthDad

"I used to think a bigger setup meant more options meant better music. Turns out the opposite is true, at least for me.

For a while my live rig was getting more complex every time I played it. More modules, more flexibility, more things to manage. And instead of playing, I was troubleshooting. So I stripped it back.

In this video I walk through the portable techno case I built for live performance; what made the cut, what didn't, and why having fewer options actually made me more focused and more musical on stage.

If you make techno with hardware and performing live is something you're thinking about, hopefully this is useful.

Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Breakdown of my setup - kicks
01:01 Adding texture with Oneiroi
01:36 Battering Ram as second kick
02:03 Lead voice Ballista Blast
02:25 Sequencing with Shroud of Turing
05:23 Changing up the melody
05:52 Quantising notes to change the mood
07:27 Putting it all together to play
22:36 Conclusions"

Modular techno performance with a portable setup

360 Systems Digital Keyboard Mk II (MIDI)

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morgan fisher · 360 Keyboard

via this Vemia listing

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"360 SYSTEMS DIGITAL KEYBOARD Incredibly rare early 8-bit sample-based keyboard (1982-1984, only 200 made). This is the Mark 2 type, with MIDI. Excellent condition apart from light scratches on the wood panels. Comes with printed manuals (1st and 2nd editions), parts catalogue, service history (maintenance done since the current owner bought it in 2005 - and since then only played it in his home studio). 12 of the 16 voice sockets contain voice chips as follows: 1 Flute / 2 Gut String Guitar / 3 Bass Guitar / 4 Slap bass / 5 Electric Guitar / 6 Electric Piano / 7 Clavinet / 8 Saxophone / 9 French Horn / 10 Trombone / 11 Dark Trumpet / 12 Bright Trumpet.

All functions are working fine except for one problem: This is an 8-voice keyboard, but if you play more than 6 notes at once, the 7th note produces a distorted sound. It seems that the 7th out of the 8 voices is faulty (doubtless due to deterioration of a vital part - no physical damage has been done to this carefully used machine). If it can be fixed or muted, you will have an incredible instrument with rich, organic tones. In any event it is perfectly playable if you respect the current voice limitation.

LISTEN! You can hear the sound of this actual instrument (arpeggios played with all 12 voices from bottom to top of the keyboard) HERE: [embed above]

Quote from a well-known pro user: 'It sounds AMAZING, the only sampler with enough character to rival a Mellotron or Chamberlin. My favorite French horn patch of all time!'"

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angine de poitrine - sarniezz (modular synth cover)

video upload by Jonathan MacKenzie

"angine de machine?

all sequenced from logic, lots and lots of pitch bend automation... midi cv mostly coming from expert sleepers fh-2, including one converter that's just velocity information for the hihats and one that's just a monophonic gate with no pitch (for the dfam). the configurability of the fh-2 is astounding

drums:
squid salmple with mostly linn samples, swapped in a 909 ride and 808 cowbell. gates from beatstep pro with aforementioned hihat velocity from the fh-2

bass:
mb2s all by itself (including midi conversion)

riff that mostly follows bass:
plaits (waveshaper algo) through tiptop forbidden planet though obne screen violence (disabled at first)

minor 2nd thing:
qu-bit surface in one of the e piano modes

riff 1:
qu-bit chord v2, a fair bit of malarky going on to get the right flavour of duophony. everything's kinda duplicated so at first it's just the first two oscillators then it gets doubled

riff 2 (first new riff in 4/4):
surface again, i switch it to monophonic during the stabs

riff 3:
qu-bit aurora running a dumb little oscillator firmware i wrote a few weeks ago (my first and so far only foray into writing dsp). ran it through after later stairs (stereo filter) with different lfos modulating left and right to move it around a bit. midi from beastep pro (this was the last voice i added and had used up all the outputs on the fh-2 and expander. still had the other sequencer on the bsp so i guess i could've added one more voice)

klek de machine:
dfam

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the arrangement is slightly shorter, where everything's live rather than looped i can only add layers as long as i can add voices so i focused on what seemed like the more important ones. and while i spent a long time trying to figure out all the parts i'm still not quite sure what the bass (and guitar part that mostly doubles the bass) in the last section is doing. pretty sure i'm pretty close though.

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#eurorack #modularsynth #microtonal #anginedepoitrine"

Hexdrums cranked, compressed & gated (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"Compressor hiss? Meh, the world's full of noise and hiss. Levels pushed, why not? Some limiting on the output - sure. We're just having fun here, not trying to educate anyone on noise levels or production techniques. And as usual this video has completely mutated from its original form. The intention was to show the new Nightverb gated reverb option and blather on about drum machines. Then I started playing with Hexdrums' compressor. So instead of my long diatribe on drum machine programming I chopped that all out and just kept the actual drums.

Compressor's aren't my thing. Yet with the Hexdrum compressor I had fun. Pushed past noon it will start giving an audible hissy noise floor but if you're cranking lots of other things that that just disappears :D If I was making an album track I'd probably try to get rid of it but for now every noise is welcome.

On the routing: Voice 1 (bass drum 1) and Voice 3 (snare) are on separate outs and are completely dry - although I was severely temped to do some processing on them. All the other voices go to the Hexdrums stereo out, then to the Nightverb on the gated reverb option; then to the Echolocator. With either effect unit turned to 100% wet it's up to the dry voices 1 & 3 to keep things together.

At times I turn up the release on Voice 2 (bass drum 2) and that's what upsets the compressor and holds it open so long that the gated reverb doesn't get a turn.

The main reason I like this setup is that you can get variations on a single drum pattern without having to program any new drum patterns :)

The main out from the DAW has some mild limiting to catch stray spikes but otherwise this is an unedited one-pass twiddlefest.

Many thanks to my kind patrons who keep this channel ad-free
My website: https://richarddehove.com/"

Hexdrums Deep Dive // All the tones!

video upload by Starsky Carr

"In this video I take a full deep dive into the Erica Synths Hexdrums – exploring every voice, tone, pattern function and performance feature to see just how powerful this drum machine really is.

From 909-style kicks and 808-inspired hats to dirty punchy snares, claps, rim shots, crashes and rides, we’ll go through all 10 drum voices in detail. I’ll show you how easy it is to build patterns, record live, use step programming, adjust exclusivity/fade between hats, and shape everything through the master distortion section for those gnarly, meaty, fat techno rhythms.

We’ll also look at:
✔️ Pattern selection & step sequencing
✔️ Live recording workflow
✔️ Multi-bar patterns (up to 4 bars per channel)
✔️ Individual outs on the rear panel
✔️ Master distortion section
✔️ Sample selection for cymbals
✔️ Performance tricks & groove ideas

If you’re into drum machines, analogue rhythm design, techno, electro, synthwave, or classic 808/909 workflows — this one’s for you.

This isn’t just a quick overview… it’s a proper hands-on demo so you can hear exactly what Hexdrums can do in real-world use."

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Sequential Circuits Studio 440 SN 00582

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via this Vemia listing

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"Probably one of the best examples of the classic Studio 440 anywhere.
Sampler/sequencer/drum machine from Sequential Circuits, circa 1987. S/N 582. The present owner bought this from Wine Country in 2007. It has version 2.30 (SCSI) operating system by Pointsource, 512K RAM, 12-bit sampling, up to 35 seconds sample time (at 16kHz, max rate is 44kHz), 50,000 note sequencer capacity, 8-note polyphonic, stereo audio outputs as well as individual track outputs 1 to 8. And, of course, it has MIDI – very easy to sequence up other synthesizers.

Quite a lot of functionality in a single box and easy to operate. The Studio 440 is fairly rare (about 600 made through 1986, ’87) and considered one of the pioneering forerunners to the later MPC units of the nineties.

This unit is in excellent condition – the cosmetics are very good, with tiny scratches around some of the edges of the enclosure. The main panel paintwork, graphics, knobs and switches are like new. No known issues operationally. Disks load fine, sound configuration, sampling, sequencing and audio all good, menus look normal. Display backlight is good, all hardware good. An easy instrument to get to know and operate, and sounds pretty good for a 12-bit sampler. Includes original manual (NOS from Wine Country), some service data, a number of sample disks, head protector disk (this will have to be ejected following transit) and a survival kit consisting of 8 spare touch pads (unused), two NOS pots, one switch module, one I-624 voice chip. The mains connection is standard IEC socket. The buyer will have to acquire their own mains cord that suits their country and change the internal voltage setting if necessary (explained in the manual. The present setting is 230V).

Weighs 10kg. Unit measures approximately 60x30x16cm (including manual, disks and spare parts). Packaged up, will be maybe 10% larger and heavier. The item is located in New Zealand. Examples of approximate door to door air-freight shipping costs, including insurance, at the time of writing, are: UK/Europe, 300GPB/Euros. USA, $500USD (US tariffs may change at short notice). Australia, $250AUD. Costs to be confirmed upon sale. Importing customs charges and tax are buyers responsibility. You're welcome to find alternative shipping at your expense and risk."

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Luma-mu: bringing the legendary Linn LM-1 to Eurorack

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We are proud to preset Luma-mu, a new Eurorack drum module from our friends at Deftaudio that brings the technology and sound of the legendary Linn LM-1 drum computer to the word of modular synthesis. It implements a single voice of their Luma-1 drum machine (a full recreation of the LM-1) with additional CV controls for the samples, playback modes, pitch, dynamics, and more. It comes with an EEPROM of the original LM-1 sounds that can be easily swapped out for other sounds on EEPROM or a special USB EEPROM emulator (which will be covered in another video).

To find out more, please visit https://deftaudio.com/lumamu

00:00 Introduction
00:18 Background on Luma-1 and Luma-mu
01:05 Overview of Luma-mu module
02:03 Using the onboard sample, trigger, and pitch controls
03:10 Controlling the module via CV input
04:08 Playing the module via a sequencer
08:34 Using an alternate EEPROM
12:08 A teasure for the USB PicoRom adapter
12:24 Conclusion

We use the Morphor Sequencer, Expert Sleepers Disting, and Arturia MiniBrute to play the module in this demo."