Synare STAR PS1

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"Here is a very rare Synare PS-1. It has 4 pads which can be individually tuned. Everything works, the pad rubber is a bit worn and the pads need to be hit with sticks to be activated (not your hands unless you hit very hard) One of the sliders is a bit sticky (the envelope decay), regardless of these problems it still functions and is a really cool and great unit. It sounds amazing, very fat...you can make percussion sounds with this that are truely unique and you can also get your classic 808ish sounds, great rare unit and collectors piece."

There's also two Synare 3s up for auction.

miniMusic MixPad

"MixPad is a full featured MIDI file player/recorder/editor. It will let you take any raw MIDI file with you on your Palm compatible handheld or phone. You can play the song with our Krikit audio engine, on connected MIDI hardware, or on a sound card if your handheld has one. MixPad differs from any other MIDI file applications for the PalmOS; it includes powerful graphic support for simple viewing and mixing.

Usable for real performance situations, or music practice, MixPad gives you a powerful real-time mixer interface to control channel volumes, panning, and solos and mutes for every track during playback. The main display gives smooth scrolling of all MIDI data (including velocities and controller data) and zooming. Unlike other MIDI file players that use hundreds of kilobytes (or even megabytes) of memory for sound samples, our software synthesizer generates audio without any recorded sound; it's only 10k! Song files are also very small (usually under 100k)."

Title link takes you there. Be sure to check out the rest of the miniMusic suite.

Mike Oldfield's OB-Xa?

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Sent my way via Tom of Music Thing.

Details:
"Superb condition Oberheim obxa rare 8 voice model with 120 program memory an absolute must have for the synth conesieur.

All 8 voices work and tune up without any problems,there is no yellowing of any of the keys and all leds lightb as they should,wooden end cheeks are in good condition and the only blemish is a couple of scratches by the filter section which is shown in one of the pictures.

This synth has a very intersting history in that the guy i purchased it from said he bought it from an auction house that was selling job lots of studio gear from Mike Oldfields studio as Mike was apparently moving his studio to another country and sold lots of kit off.

According to the guy I bought it off he said the album crises was made with this obxa.

Anyway I am not really an Oldfiled fan so I was not that bothered about it but the brown flight case with the tubular bell logo on it always intrigued me so I did a bit of investigation and sure enough I found a site that listed items of mikes gear that was sold and sure enough there is a mention of an obxa,dsx and brown flight case (I sold the dsx to an oldfeild fan ages ago)with tubular bell on the front.Email me and i will give you the web address of the site as I don't want to break any ebay rules as you always get some jealous little snipe who could only dream of owning a synth like this reporting you to ebay hence the relist.

Anyway the above is mentioned out of interest I can only assume it belonged to Mike as I find it hard to believe that there are many obxa dsx and brown flightcases with tubular bell on the front,speaking of the flightcase you will be really pleased with the flight case as it looks to have been hand built and to spec it looks and feels exspensive,it is filled with high impact foam and the obxa fits perfectly inside the foam it has definitely been made to specification,it even has the number 67 on the front which i assume is for when it was toured so they knew what was in tour case 67."

MOOG Synthesizer IIIp

Remember the MOOG Modular IIIp on Craigslist for $12k? The seller was notified it was too little for the system so he took it down. It's now back up here, now listed at $32k. I backed up the shots and details here in case the site goes down after it's sold.

Original (1969) & Current (2007) Owner - Philip Michael Davis



History of Use:
- Gil Evans Jazz Group - Tour of Europe - Live performance
- Basil Poledouris - Several Film Scores
- "Tommy" - Aquarius Theater in LA - Live performance
- "Jesus Christ Superstar" - Universal Studios Amphitheater - Live performance
- "Sgt. Pepper" - Stage production on Broadway - Tom O'Horgan producer
- "Electrical Light Parade" - Disney - Recorded at the Paul Beaver Studio in LA
- "America on Parade" - For Disneyland and Disneyworld
- Paul McCartney - "Ram"
- George Harrison - Ravi Shankar - film score
- David Gates - "Clouds"
- Numerous commercials
- Various Movie scores

The First Gumby Episode: Gumby on the Moon

YouTube via dmgivideo. I remember this one. Anyone know what was used for the audio?

Delia Derbyshire Pot Au Feu

YouTube via scatterkeir. Via CDM.

PanKAT MIDI Steel Drum Controller

"THE WORLD'S FIRST MIDI PAN CONTROLLER"
• Special tunings for Pan players
• One-piece, 30 pad design, plus 2 virtual controller wheels
• GM sound engine included for instant plug n play! (128 sounds)
• PanKAT also includes multiple steel drum instrument samples for various software samplers for use with a PC or Receptor.
• Same responsive, pressure sensitive FSR sensors as all KAT controllers
• 128 factory kits for turnkey performance with any GM sound module.
• 128 user kits for programming your own kit configurations.
• Headphone output for private practice
• Power to layer the keyboard with independent MIDI control
• Special performance features including dampening, deadstroking, poly/mono modes, velocity shifting, alternate notes per pad, pitch bend on the fly, warp arpeggiator, loop control functions, and much more.
• 2 programmable inputs used for control,
or HiHat & Bass Drum pedals
• Ongoing software upgrades: The PanKAT will continue to evolve.

Title link takes you there.
via JB.

KeyToSound Nextsyn

"Nexsyn is a hybrid instrument that combines sample playback and synthesis technology. Nexsyn is designed for the musician, sound designer, and producer who wishes for a powerful synthesizer with high quality output, advanced modulation, and precise sample based key-map playback....

Nexsyn is capable of laoding sample based keymap files (XWM) and comes stock with a 4GB sample library (thanks Big Fish Audio!). By loading an XWM file as an oscillator, Nexsyn can modulate it as you would find with a subtractive synth. There are no limitations to the modulation possibilities. This makes combining a Vox Continental, a Hammond B3, and a pulse wave into a unique sounding organ patch as shown above. Any sample based keymap file can be modulated as an oscillator, or played without modulation for prestine representation of the instrument."

Title link takes you there.

Sounds of the Korg MS-20

YouTube via Newueel

I found this looking for a video of the giant instructional version of the MS20 posted below. If anyone knows of any, let me know. I seem to vaguely remember seeing a Japanese instructional video of one.

KORG MS20 Educational Edition and Das Synthesizer Handbook

via this auction

Giant sized instructional version of the MS20. Here's another one. via ben.