MATRIXSYNTH

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Oberheim Mini Sequencer

No title link. Just the shot via this auction.

Another item from the Stephen St. Croix liquidation.

Other items here

Trip, never saw one of these before. Love the OB-1 styple knobs. Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. This is part of the Stephen St. Croix liquidation. You can see the other items here. More posts coming up. I'll only be grabbing the synth related stuff for posterity so be sure to check the rest out as well.

Some details
"This Auction is for one Oberheim Studio amplifier. It was owned and maintained by the late Stephen St. Croix. This man took the very best care, if not better care, of every thing he touched, and for the most part is in great shape, having been used. www.stephenstcroixgear.com for more insight on Stephen St. Croix IMPORTANT NOTE TO BUYERS! I am selling these items for the estate of the late Stephen St. Croix, who had a huge amount of musical and studio gear. All of it will be listed for sale on eBay. Please check back every week for additional listings of approximately 12 items per week."

The Hellers - Creative Freakout

Found this one on the always awesome Retro Thing. Title link takes you to wfmu.org. When you get there, do a find for "Hellers" and you will get to the album. There is an mp3 icon on the top right where you can download the retro show.

Do check out Retro Thing for more "Free Retro Music Every Day in 2007!"

Blue Cat Audio Remote Control

Virtual Knob Box

"Blue Cat's Remote Control is a set of plug-ins which let you control and monitor in real time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or devices from a single customizable user interface: the GUI of your favorite VST or DirectX plug-in does not satisfy you? Your favorite hardware device is too complicated to control? Your project contains hundreds of plug-ins and you would like to control them all from a single user interface? This product was designed for you!

The package includes 3 plug-ins: Remote Control 16, 32 and 64, which have the ability to manage up to 16, 32 or 64 parameters. You can assign a MIDI channel and CC number to each controller, customize its response curve. You can as well choose a skin that suits your needs for every instance of the remote control (several skins are included in the package, see the Screenshots), or create your own (see the Skins section): this is the best way to create your own user interface to control your entire Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) the way you have chosen."

Title link takes you there.

5 MOOGs and a Wannabe

No title link. Eric Frampton sent this shot in along with the title.

That's one hell of a Wannabe. : )

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Scrotum Smasher

Metasonix TM-7 Ultra Distortion Scrotum Smasher

Previous Metasonix posts

Wiard Borg Filter 300

via this auction.

Details (note the misprint):

"One thing that makes this one real cool is it is miss marked "GR-342" it is SUPPOSED to say GR-352. Grant said it was one of the first few built. Taken from Wiard website: The newest module in the Wiard system is the Borg Filter . The Borg uses a completly new filter design using “Vactrol”-based electronics. There are two seperate filters in this module -- each implemented as a 2-pole multi-mode. They can be linked as a 4-pole, or used as two independent filters. The Vactrol circuitry provides a certain amount of slew, giving the filter a very woody and warm tone. The Borg also contains two LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators). Low frequency might be a misnomer, since the oscillators will track to a 15 Khz audio rate. These two oscillators can be used for filter modulation, or for clocking of a Sequantizer, vibrato on a Classic VCO and wave sequencing of a Waveform City. This is another example of the excellent design work done by Grant and the Wiard team. Where did the Borg name come from? + Buchla Model 292 Low-pass Gate Korg MS-20 High and Low-Pass Filters The Borg Filter module contains: Two seperate Borg filter (Controls - Freq, Peak, Type, Mod) Two low frequency oscillators (Controls - Speed) A jack multiple"

via diablo guapo. Previous Wiard posts

Yamaha CS01

One day I will find one of these at a garage/tag sale...

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Check out this description:
"VINTAGE YAMAHA CS-01 CS01 ANALOG SYSNTHESIZER SYNTH .POWER UP BUT SELLING AS/IS I DONT KNOW HOW TO USE IT . WHEN I PLAY A KEY IT JUST KEEP BUZZING I DONT KNOW WHY .PLEASE LOOK AT PIC FOR MORE INFO."

Someone is about to either get really lucky or really disappointed. It reminds me of a Sequential Circuits I picked up from the Local Guitar Center a few years back for $125 because of a stuck note. I opened it up, bent the j-wire back into position and was good to go. They said their tech couldn't figure it out. : )

Previous CS01 posts