Frac-ified Dotcom Reverb

Title link takes you to the post by Inverseroom on Synthwire.

Preliminary Data for the Model 21C Milton Touchplate Controller

Title link takes you to the full info. Some excerpts:

Outputs:
- Gate Out - returns a 5 volt high gate when a plate is touched
- Pressure out - returns a pot adjustable variable voltage which is governed by the amount of pressure applied to any given key
- Quantized Out - returns a quantized voltage string (16 half steps) generated by the 16 touchplates
- Slew Out - returns a pot-adjustable slewed variation of the Linear Voltage output (not quantized)
- Linear Out - returns 16 linear voltages scaled to the voltage threshold of the Milton Venti VC input.

Inputs:
EXT VC - provides a secondary external VC direction input so that the Milton may still be direction controlled when the 21C is installed. Indication of the effect of this external control will be shown on the main LEDs of the Milton M21 - they will not effect the status of the 16 key LEDs on the 21C itself - those will still show the last key touched.

Manual Controls:
- Pressure Scale - sets the maximum voltage level of the pressure output
- Glide - determines the amount of slew for the Slewed Output
-Fixed/Variable Range Select - sets the main output for FIXED range (scaled for Milton stage thresholds) or VARIABLE range
-Range - determines the maximum range of the main output. Each of the 16 keys will reflect 16 equal increments of this max level.

Time to get an ASB?

According to this electro-music.com thread, Creamware filed for bankruptcy on Dec 18, 2006. There is no info on thier site.If anyone knows more about this, please feel free to comment. This is unfortunate as I hear they make some of the best emulations if not THE best out there. I had my mind set on the PRODYSSEY (12 Odysseys in a knob laden little box). It might just be time to pick one up if you've been thinking about it as well.

Yellow ARP Axxe

Another via janvanvolt.

Title link takes you to more.

Green Roland TR-707

via sequencer.de via janvanvolt.

EMS Synthi Boards

Title link takes you to a post on EMS Synthi with a bigger image of the EMS Synthi boards over the years. He is also looking for a hi res of the 1969-72 boards. If you know where to find one leave a comment in his post.

Synth Monger's SN-Voice

Two shots of Synth Monger's Thomas Henry SN-Voice. You might recognize it from this video.

"It's an SN-Voice synth I made. I combined it with a cut-down version of Ray Wilson's single buss keyboard controller."

E-mu Modular

No title link. Just the shots and details pulled via this auction. This is the E-mu modular referenced in this previous post.

Details:
"You are bidding on an E-mu Systems analog synthesizer main cabinet. It contains 11 filters, three oscillators, 6 VCAs, four transient generators, two preamps and a filter controller. This sale is contingent on sale of the whole system as that sale takes precedence over the items listed separately. If someone buys the whole system, and you win the bid on this piece, you don't get this piece, it goes with the whole system.

I bought this E-mu in 1976. If you don't know about these, they are the finest analog synthesizer components ever made, except for the keyboard (sorry Dave and Scott). NASA buys these oscillators for use in the space program. I have never had to re-tune the oscillators ever, as they are rock solid. By comparison, I had to re-tune my minimoog about every 6 months. There are a couple of modifications to this. I replaced the output op-amps in the VCAs with 5534 types to lower the noise level. At one time, this cabinet powered the keyboard (see other listing) but I moved the keyboard power supply to the Oberheim main cabinet.

There's not much else to say, I replaced one of the little switches on one of the VCAs. It's all stock otherwise. At 80 lbs, you will have to get this shipped by DHL, and you can calculate those charges yourself by going to DHL online and get the quote from Albany CA. You might be better off picking up the cabinet between the end of the auction and Feb 19. After that I am leaving the country, so this sale has to be AS IS.

I hate to part with my baby (I named this keyboard 'Sarah' after an old girlfriend), but I have accepted a call from the lord to go to teach music for a church school in the Kingdom of Tonga. I have taught there before and I really like it down there, so I am looking forward to this experience, but I have to fund this myself as the church has very little money to pay me. So please bid generously! Malo e lelei!"

Andrew Gadow /Techne - Auxons

For those of you near Surry Hills, Sydney, title link takes you to an art showing featuring Andrew Gadow /Techne - Auxons at Firstdraft Gallery. The show runs Wednesday January 31 to Saturday February 17, 2007.

philT sent me a link to an interesting commentary on Signal To Noise where I read about the showing. The commentary is on breaking things down to it's essence. The following are a couple of excerpts.

"One guy whose name has been lost to us was approaching the whole video-sculpture nexus in a very literal way – he was breaking down VCRs, cameras and video projectors into their constituent parts while trying to keep the machines operating even when they were in pieces.. A video feed from a still working video camera relayed a jittery image to projector that threw an image on to a wall. Asked what he was doing with his ‘project’, the artist – surrounded by the gizzards of machines - fumbled for words eventually stating “What I’m trying to do is… I’m… taking it all back to signal.”

"The work of Andrew Gadow at Firstdraft and his show Techne – Auxons deals with similar territory. Like that long forgotten artist, Gadow is working with feed as the essential element of his project, creating a three gallery daisy chain that begins with a vintage Fairlight CVI - an 80s era video synthesizer that creates patterns and distorts images – producing an image which then feeds the audio output of the CVI into an audio synth in the next gallery which in turn creates audio that in turn is fed into another CVI before going through another iteration into the final gallery space."

Don't miss the rest on Signal To Noise.

Access Virus C

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Question: Should this have been a MATRIXSYNTH-B post? I was on the fence with this one.