The Minitron

I was going through the hoard of gear shots on the title link above and ran into The Minitron.



"Built in the 1970s by Norm Lederman"

"The Minitron consists of 48 keys in a slideout keyboard (which stashes away for shipping). Each has its own individual attack, release, and volume controls. These controls operate six broadcast cartridge tape drives, each having eight tracks. Thus, each of the tracks on a cart contains the tape loop for one key."

Bieke Goes Nuts

Title link takes you to a hoard of gear p*rn posts on Harmony Central. And I thought I posted a lot... Note this thread started on Friday 1/6/05. Enjoy. : ) Via Music Thing.

Purple Synthesizers.com

Moog Taurus II Shots

Title link takes you to more shots pulled from this auction.

Roland History

Title link takes you to Roland's development history page that lists out products they consider to be firsts. The GR-500, released in 1977, is listed as the first guitar synth in the world. The ARP Avatar also came out in 1977. The SH-1000, released in 1973 was the first synthesizer manufactured in Japan.



Update via Kaden in the comments:
"heh? Walter Sears was producing boutique guitar synths in about 1973 (as I recall, Steve Howe from Yes had one with an elbow controller), which led to the 360 Systems guitar synth in (I think) 1976. There was a band called Symphonic Slam that made a *huge* deal out of having one. Sounded kinda Arpish, with appalling pitch tracking."

Grey Latronic Notron Mk1

Title link takes you to more shots pulled from this auction. Via trobly1000. Thanks trobly1000!

Antti Houvalainen - ASynth and More

I recently posted on the Non-Linear Digital Implementation of the Moog Ladder Filter. There were a couple of comments including the following by polardark:

"Antti Houvalainen who authored this paper has also made the free VSTi softsynth ASynth which uses this moog filter, as well as a modelled MS20 filter and an Oberheim Xpander filter. The same filter is also used for Basement Arts Frantic VST filter effect. Both well worth trying out, in my opinion... "

So I went looking and found ASynth on KVR. I clicked on the download link and ended up on Antti's VST plugin page, with samples and downloads. Title link takes you there. Thanks to polardark for taking the time to comment.

Elain Radigue

Title link takes you to a composer profile on Elain Radigue. Via Music Thing.

Oakley Sound TB3030

Title link takes you to more shots, info and samples. Via Music Thing.

The Pig

Samples and more shots after hop. Via Moogulator.



""The Pig" is a very simple, little synth with 2 VCO's, 1 voltage controlled state var Filter, two Attack-Release Generators, VCA (of course), 2 LFO's (one of them with audio freq) and two 8-step sequencers.
The first sequencer modulates the two VCO's, the second one is for filter modulation.
After all, this little synth provides "slide" and a 8-step trigger sequencer for the latter function. Thus, as simple this machine is, it sounds astonishing complex, because of some little more features like cross modulation or LFO-modulation of the VCSFV with the audio-LFO."

Roland HS60 - New Flickr Shots

Title link takes you to a few more. The Roland HS60 is a Juno 106 with built in speakers.