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Sunday, February 26, 2006

EML Synkey OVATION

via this auction. Details below.

"Rar, fancy: vintage EML Synkey vintage analog punch-card programmable synthesizer in recently adjusted; absolute top condition. It's the top rar: OVATION - version. Fully works and sounds incredible: The low-pass filter goes to high-pass filter and the band-pass in between and this is extremely effective. It has ringmodulator and some arpeggioator-like LFO-waveform varies due to the speed. It's unique and you can make some unpredictable polyphonic arpeggiations. Dealing with punch-card makes this machine very exotic! So maybe you bid on technically one of the best Synkey of the world! Pitty, it runs on American standard current 110 V , so there's a 220 V -adapter in need or comit me to do the modification for some extra (ca. 35-50EU depending on trafo)!"

"... these came out as early as in 1976, not 1978/79 as stated on most synth-sites out there. At least, this is what I was told by one of the founders/owners of the EML company - States Mikael. Thank you for the info! "

Update via the comments: "The Synkey service manual I have dates the individual drawings from about April 1974 to March 1975. 1976 therefore seems about right."

Santuarios

Thought I put up a post on this previously, but I can't find it, so here it goes. Title link takes you to Santuarios, a site with tons of gear p*rn of various studios.

Christian Wittman of Lightwave

Deathknöbbes

Hubba hubba. Waldorf Q on top of Alesis Andromeda. I found this one on this post about the PEK. You never know where you'll find some of these gems.

Update via Mr. Array in the comments:
"That's no Q+. Just a regular 16 voice Q, and a yellow one at that. I think the yellow was the best color by the way.

If you want to see a Q+, look over yonder:
studio_2005_small.jpg

There's an XTk 30 hidden somewhere in the pic too ; )"

matrix: I thought that was a reqular Q based on the logo, but the only color that made sense to me in the shot was red. Thanks for clarifying Mr. Array. It's updated.

Update2: And another shot form Mr. Array.

DX11 With Accordian Keys

Another synth modded with accordian style keys. Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Roland MC4 b + MTR100

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. The Roland MC4b is an old school sequencer with CV outs (pictured below). Note the MTR100 cassette interface for storing your sequences in the other shots. Via bleepsandbloops. BTW, according to the post, if you buy this for bleepsandbloops you'll get a boob flash.

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Gnostic Rocket and The Springboard Dub

Title link takes you to Gnostic Rocket, a new blog on "Analog Synths, Circuit Bending, Music Production, Loop-Based Music and more. Brought to you by Gnostic Rocket, a Toronto-based experimental dub musician." Current post is on The Springboard Dub (pictured below) with samples. Interesting piece. I'm looking forward to seeing what else crops up. Check it out.

"This instrument is basically two cannibalized delay circuits, with bends added, built in a small piano-shaped cabinet (the unit is about 13" across, 18" high). There are springs in the cabinet where the piano keys would usually be."

Update via Doktor Future in the comments: "Hey , I listened to this guy (Gnostic Rocket) and this instrument at the Ambinet Ping in Toronto. Was pretty good. He backed it up with an electribe. It was a good set. He told me he paid a lot (can't remember exactly how much, somewhere between 2 and 4k CDN I believe) for that springie thing." Thanks Doktor.

The ANYSEQ

Title link takes you to a page on the ANYSEQ on sequencer.de. For those of us that do not speak German but speak English, here is a Google English translation. This appears to be a hardware sequencer by the folks of Anyware Instruments who brought us the SEMtex.