Maestro W-2 Woodwind Instrument

No title link, just the two shots and details pulled via this auction.

Details:
"1970’s Maestro Sounds for woodwinds multi-effects box. I have had this for a long time now, and it makes some really crazy sounds. It emulates different woodwind sounds which you can trigger by voice,guitar…whatever and also has a fuzz distortion built into it." Schematics included with this one.

Yamaha TF1

Click here for shots pulled via this auction.

Sound module for the Yamaha TX816 - a complete DX7 on a card.

Previous TX816 posts

A6 Andromeda Beat Demo

This one via Paul Sop, aka Doktor Future.
"Here's a demo of a stock A6 mix patch with a touch of funky:
I've taken the 16 A6 discrete outputs and fed them into a cheap summing bus,
Then into a Chandler Germanium,
Then into a Compressor (cheap DBX 166xl)
Then into a MAM Resonator,
Then into a Compressor (it's all analog and mono up to this point),
Then into a ADC (Motu w/Blacklion),
Then into a Weiss DNA-1 (doing only a little ambiance regen),
Then into the Kyma (a touch of stereo tremolo & digital grit),
Then out to the net.
It's streaming from Radio Modular also.

Cheerio!"

a Buchla 259 I built for the Audities Foundation

flickr by verbos2002.

"Built from NOS Buchla PCBs. Don didn't have any of the knobs you usually see left, but he did put these on some of the 259s he sold in the 70s."

Title link takes you to more.

Audities Foundation

Chrome SixTrak

Title link takes you to a thread on VSE where you will find more shots. This one is for sale. I saved the images here for when the VSE thread disappears.

Creamware Assets Absorbed by SonicCore and InDSP

You might remember from this post that Creamware was declared insolvent on December 18, 2006. According to this CDM article it looks like SonicCore will continue to support SCOPE (hardware and software) under the Creamware name and InDSP has absorbed the rights to their hardware synthesizer technology which makes sense as they were responsible for the ASB line of synths. Title link takes you to more details on Create Digital Music.

Starkey HSL-II Hearing Scientific Laboratory Sound Lab

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Some details from a previous post (see the post for more):
"Four oscillators, three multimode filters, two A/R envelope generators, digital gate sequencer, noise generator, phase shifter, external audio input...but no CV control. Uses mini-banana jacks. Built in 1977."

via adam

Grex MXF8 MIDI Controller

No title link, just this shot and details pulled via this auction.

Details:
"The Grex MXF8 was a revolutionary MIDI controller for audio software such as Ableton Live. Unfortunately the company went under after only a handful of units left the production line, so this is a very rare unit. It has a ton of unique features that will make any performance shine. Here's a breakdown for you:

There are 3 modes of operations; Volume, BPM and Solo mode.

* Volume Mode
o Instantly assign the X-fader control to perform subtle and violent blends across up to 8 stereo audio tracks.
o Perform instantaneous muting / unmuting of up to 8 stereo audio tracks.
o Punch in / out groups of selected audio tracks with the PUNCH buttons whilst still being able to control volumes from the 8 individual channel controls.
o Additional controller messages, preset to send 'Pan', can be sent from each of the 8 rotary controls.

* BPM Mode
o Select and fine tune the tempo incrementally or leap to a specific tempo on the fly.
o Use the BEATGATE to rhythmically crop and chop the sound.
o Another 16 additional midi controllers can be sent from the Xfader in this mode to alter whatever you assign in your computer (effect sends etc).

* Solo Mode
o Seamlessly solo tracks dropping them in and out of the mix and adjust their volumes and effect controls.
o Use 8 more additional 'toggling' controller messages to switch in/out effects.
o Yet further midi controller messages can be sent from this mode using the 8 individual rotary channel controls.
o Ratio Sequencer - A powerful compositional aid
o Uses the Xfader, which has 'quantised zones' in this mode, to control loop start triggers and retriggers in the computers' audio loops. BUT if you 'over set' these start points relative to the current global controlling position of the Xfader, clever maths instantly reassigns the start point of any offending loops to be within the new globally set loop-length, often giving new, unexpected but rhythmically correct and exciting results."

via Kevin

MOOG Little Phatty - MATRIXSYNTH Patch

Remember this post?

A little while ago, Amos of MOOG Music sent me the image. I asked him if it was actually going to be included in the factory presets for the Little Phatty. His answer? Yes. : ) I didn't want to post this until I actually saw it with my own eyes. Sure enough I paid a visit to my local Guitar Center with a friend of mine who just started Toho Monster (Godzilla fans unite!), and there it was. Preset patch #70 is MATRIXSYNTH! So cool. It trips me out to think that this patch will be disseminated to every Little Phatty owner out there and it will be part of the factory restore for years to come. Pretty cool...

Thank you Amos!!!

Some notes from Amos. Suit and Tie Guy, take a look. ;)

"I wrote 40 of the 100 presets, or 40%... actually I just counted 41; I was looking for the patch list and I found a list I'd saved of which ones were mine. In case you're curious:

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KORG PS-3300

Remember Klaus Schulze's PS-3300? Reed send in a couple of shots of what a standard PS-3300 looks like aside from the custom cherry cabinet. "The knobs are indeed the same as on a Korg 770." Title link takes you to another image - both are super-sized so click on the "All Sizes" menu item when you get there. Note the "Controlled Voltage Processors" in the other shot.