MATRIXSYNTH

A6 Flash Demo Reveals Missing Features

This little gem via Javier. Title link takes you to the original A6 Flash demo on the Alesis Japan site. If you click on the section just above the Mod wheels you will be taken to the Keyboard and Portamento section. To the right you can see a "process" button. If you click on that you will see the following: "Press this button to access a 16-step tracking generator, mathematical functions, and Boolean Logical Functions, which are typically used to modify modulation sources to such effects as non-linearity, scaling, conditional gating, etc." Nice. Thanks Javier!

Sequential Circuits Prophet 10

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. You don't see these often.

Some details pulled:
"I could write a book on what the Prophet 10 is and what it can do. Briefly it’s a dual manual 10 voice analog synthesizer that can produce incredibly fat analog synth tones. Each voice has dual oscillators (saw/pulse/hard sync, saw/tri/pulse), noise, VCA and VCF ADSR envelope generators, and incredible routing options like poly and mono modulation and multiple LFO waveforms to fatten up things. Essentially it’s like having 2 Prophet 5’s with the addition of a 3 band EQ all in one unit. Includes an onboard sequencer too. This instrument was first introduced in the mid 1980s and was used by many artists such as Genesis, The Who, Human League, Tangerine Dream, The Orb and by composers and filmmakers such as John Carpenter."

"All oscillators and filters have been fixed by Wine Country. All trim knobs work and are smooth in feel and function. All push buttons light up when engaged. The onboard sequencer works. All keys on both manuals work and the contact wires are solid. The pitch and mod wheels still have the original feel. The cosmetics are excellent too. Unfortunately the tape interface is intermittent. Only occasionally can I load a bank of patches. The only other thing to note is the keyboard keys are noisy (compared to current standards) and need a little playing to free up a minor sticky feel. Wine Country told me that the rubber pads under the keys either get sticky (mine) or crack with age. Their solution was to remove each key and apply a light talcum powder to the pad to get things back to pristine. I didn’t have them do this as I had hoped to do it myself." This one also includes the MIDI retrofit kit.

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5

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Cheetah MS6

Click here for pic pulled via this auction. You can find samples and more info on Synthmania. Note the shots are a bit blurry, but they should give you the idea. There are a couple of shots of all editable parameters.

New Wood End Pieces

Looks like Synthwood has some new wood end pieces up on the bay: Korg 770, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks, Sequential Circuits Pro One. Title link takes you to the synthwood site. Korg 770 wood ends pictured.

Zire 71 Music System

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Some Details:
Chocopoolp Bhajis Loops (worth $27.00)
Chocopoolp Microbe (worth $16.00)
MiniMusic SoundPad (worth $19.00)
GBulator running Nanoloop and 8 Cylinder apps.
SpeakMemo speech application
LingvoSoft English-Japanese translation software (worth $20.00)
Oblique Strategies

Chocopoolp
MiniMusic
Zire 71

The only thing missing is a MIDI cable for controlling your outboard gear. I have MiniMusic which is a great suite of software for sequencing synths. You can see some previous posts here. If you want to control your synths with this, I'd recommend checking out the Minimusic Hardware page for more info. Via DK.

EMS Synthi A

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CRB Computer Band 2000 Rhythmus Drum Keyboard

via this auction.
Details Google translated:
"As one such a thing exactly calls cannot unfortunately not say, one can thereby rhythm, Drum and Keyboad would sound produces. It is very high-quality verarbeited (metal/casting metal), it has very beautiful switches pressed the color to change (see photo). One can lautsärken e.g. thereby speed, switch and change einzele instruments or Schlagzeug voices on/out etc. It has various (5 pieces) connection types on the back. think it comes from/the 60's 70's?"