SCI Prophet 600

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Note the new wood side panels from SYNTHWOOD.COM. Note the "Fluent MIDI Spoken Here" in the other shots. The Prophet 600 was the first synth with MIDI. An interesting bit of trivia on this particular unit, is according to Stephen, the seller, this was John Bowen's Prophet 600. The first synth with MIDI owned by one of the people at Sequential when it came out.

Korg VC10

- Oscillators=1 carrier+1 input
- LFO= Vibrato w/rate
- VCA=Mix level wet-dry
- Effects=ensemble
- Keys=32
- External pitch control CV input
- made from 78-82

Title link takes you to more shots via this auction.

Minimoog Flyer

via this auction.

Vintage Synth Pins

No title link. Just the shot via this auction.

Anyone know where the ARP 2500 module shot on the bottom left came from?

PPG Wave 2.2

No title link. Just the shots and details via this auction.

Details: "PPG Wave 2.2 with factory midi. The Wave 2.2 is an 8-bit wavetable synthesizer that has 32 tables each containing 64 waveforms that you can sweep through. These 64 waveforms can be changed in real time via an EG, mod-wheel, after-touch, velocity, etc. To give even more depth to the sound the two oscillators per voice can be de-tuned and filtered by the infamous SSM2044 filter chips. The PPG Wave 2.2 has a very unique and beautiful sound with no equivalent even with most recent and sophisticated machines! It can produce bright and tingly sounds that cut through a mix like a hot knife through butter. But it is also capable of smooth, glassy, ethereal pads and much more."

Morton Subotnick Live in San Fransisco

"Morton Subotnick's Until Spring Revisited is performed by Subotnick and Miguel Frasconi on three laptop computers. The performance is based on the idiosyncratic vocabulary of pulsating and sculpting gestures that the composer has developed during the last 40 years. Subotnick's software interprets the position, speed, and gestural quality of the mouse movement, as well as which keys are pressed and when they are pressed, and translates that information into musical variation and spatial motion. Two large-scale video screens display the hands of the two performers manipulating keyboard and mouse.

At the same time, Sue Costabile, photographer and light artist, improvises a video performance using a laptop, lightpad and digital video camera to build abstract, layered worlds of light and texture out of hand-painted papers, photographs and fabrics.

Asphodel and RML are pleased to present Until Spring Revisited, a full evening-length work of surround sound and projected images that together create an immersive audio and visual experience."

Two shows April 6. Title link takes you to more info. Via daddio on the AH list.

Previous Morton Subotnick posts

More Details on the Nord Wave

Title link takes you to more details recently posted on CDM. You can also find some details on sequencer.de.

High points:
Sampled waveforms: Oscillators can now use full waveforms (not single wavetables, Clavia hastens to add), while still routing through fully-analog circuitry.

Oscillator models: Virtual analog, FM, wavetable, sample-playback can be applied in combination (which I hear is all the rage these days). And you can load in custom waveforms, as well, via fully user-definable memory areas (so you can delete samples you hate). Clavia even promises it’ll offer additional, free waves on their website. An included software sample editor lets you tweak samples.

Morphing: Morph “almost any parameter” via mod wheel, expression, velocity, or pitch, with assignable “morph scenarios” and morph “timelines.”

Filters: 24db analog-modeled resonant filters, low-, high-, band-pass filters with envelope and velocity control, combinations of filter types, and formant filters.

Effects: EQ, delay with tap tempo, tube-style amp with overdrive, reverb.

Pitch stick: Clavia’s signature wooden pitch stick allows precise bend and vibrato.

Solaris and Musikmesse Shots

Another nice shot of the John Bowen Synth Design Solaris. I think this is my favorite look for the synth. This one sent my way via Laurin on Tangerine Vintage Synthesizer. You can see the complete Musikmesse gallery here.

Previous Musikmesse Posts

E&MM Peter Vettese Interview Excerpts on the Rhodes Crhoma Site

Via Chris Ryan on the Rhodes Chroma list:

"New on the site this month, excerpts from an interview [link] with Peter Vettese, who played the Chroma with Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson in the early 1980s. Perhaps most notable is that he hints at future directions for the instrument/platform; there have been suggestions that he did a promotional video for the Chroma [link], so may have had some inside information. Also, he is holding a Polaris on the front cover of the magazine; I'm not sure when that keyboard was released, but I thought it wasn't until 1984. It does appear to have the production prototype panel scheme [3].

Chris"

Rowland 303 - $100

Classic one from Craiglist Seattle sent via JG:

"rowland 303 - $100
Reply to: sale-304154428@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-01, 9:01AM PDT


my boyfriend didnt come home last night (again) so i'm selling off his stuff
apparently this is some sort of synthesizer. he listens to that shitty techno music so maybe that will help you.

i'm so fucking mad at him right now that the first person here with some money gets it. or you can take me out to breakfast and have it. i dont care i just want to make him mad.

* Location: cap hill
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interest"