MOOG Source Track

Title link takes you to the track, "A Beginning, But Not the Beginning" featuring the MOOG Source arpeggio. Via redchapterjubilee, via this Matrixsynth forum post.

Peaches

flickr by ...and then we all bought yatchs..

Christina Ricci

via daddio

Synergy DK

via this auction.

Update via the comments regarding the details that follow: "It was a Crumar GDS that was used on Carlos' TRON soundtrack, not a Synergy. Also, I'm not aware of that Larry Fast ever used a Synergy. That was just his artist name."

Details:
"Here is your chance to own one of the rarest keyboards in existence (there are reportedly only about 100 working models left in the world!) as used by Wendy Carlos (Tron and "Beauty in the Beast") and Larry Fast. This particular model has the MIDI in/out/thru on it, and looking inside, seems to have been done by a skilled technician (or perhaps the factory). This means it is the II+ model. The sounds are very digital in nature, but have a nice warm tone to them. There are plenty of electric pianos and strings, as well as some neat digital drum sounds. The keyboards velocity sensitivity drastically change the sounds, and this is part of the nature of the Synergy's programming.

I also have 14 original sound cartridges with this, 4 of which seem to be blank. The cartridges include: VCART 1-3 "Voices", CARLOS WC-1 "ORCH-PLUS", CARLOS WC-2 "Bells and Whistles", CARLOS WC-3 "Missing Links", DEMO "Demonstration of internal voices" and TCART1 "Processor and Panel Tests" and TCART2 "Oscillator and D/A tests"... These are included in the auction.

From the web: The Synergy is a Phase Modulation/Additive synthesizer and has lots of DX type FM sounds. The Phase Modulation algorithms are user defined with up to 16 oscillators available.
The envelopes have up to 16 stages/per osc, and are loopable. Program/sounds consists of 2 'boundaries' which are 2 separate timbres. The keyboardist can morph between these timbres via velocity and key number. The DK SYNERGY II synthesizer originally retailed for around Six Thousand 6$k (Thanks matrixsynth.com!)

Also from the web:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/lanterma/synergy/
http://www.synthmuseum.com/synergy/index.html
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/dkigds.html

The rear of the Synergy has 1/4" unbalanced outputs 1 and 2, and balanced XLR outputs 1 and 2. There is also RS-232 output for interfacing to a Kaypro computer for programming. The knobs on the front offer user control of the sounds, but in order to really dive into this synthesizer, you need the Kaypro."

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roland cr8k, cr-78 and mellotron m400

flickr by ostara voskhod

More synths in Second Life.
"the drum machines are working now. the cr-78, cr-8000 and 808 play loops when you click on them. im still working on the scripting to get them to select patterns and stop/start. anyone know how to do that?

oh yeah, loading in sounds for the mellotron and prophet v(seen in this pic) are next. "

Kawai K3m ROM Mod

Plutoniq9 (Ryan) sent the following to AH. I asked him if I could put up a post and he gave the thumbs up.

"Just a recording demo of a Kawai K3 with a TB-303 waveform (Replaced in ROM).....thanks to a list member for supplying the raw VCO square/sawtooth recordings. Not bad, considering they needed to be converted to 8-bit @ 22khz.

k3m_303_saw.mp3 (3.3M)

Prophecy is providing the arpeggio (via midi) to the K3m. I'm still not sure if I'm gonna bother with bandlimiting yet, maybe in the long run....... but the Prophet-VS I know gets part of it's character from it's aliasing & they only cause real problems in the highest octaves. It was a pain in the ass getting this far :)"

I asked Ryan if he had a web site or page up with more info and he said one would be coming on audiosyn.com.

"I'm actually still working on waveform selection, my plan is to create a ROM bank thats 50% classic analogue waveforms and 50% digital, mainly some good Prophet-VS samples + choir & strings on the digital side (basically, all the things that the K3 sucked at).

The ROM system is very cryptic :) Interleaved waveform data (containing different octaves) + a second ROM containing information necessary for anti-aliasing the waveforms (also interleaved). The service manual does not even brush upon this area, so it's been heaps of trial n' error getting it to work right. I've got some rudimentry code that allows me at this point to encode 512-byte raw waveforms (8-bit @ 22khz), but with no bandlimiting (at the moment).

Hopefully I'll have a ROM available shortly (freeware) for download, though I'm still holding out for some better analog waveform samples. Additive potion of the synth is not touched, and there will be a way to switch back to the original waveform set (or an additional bank of 31 waveforms)."

Thanks Ryan!

Ciat Lonbarde Rollz 5 Drum Machine by Photon

Via Photon via electro-music.com:

"Here's a couple of photos of my implementation of the Ciat-Lonbarde Rollz-5 drum machine. The geometric jack arrangements are pulse generators. The banks of knobs are filters: the left produce drum like sounds, the ones on the right tones. The upper four filters heterodyne and make weird shortwave radio-like sounds. You connect the pulse generators to make patterns then patch thru a filter to output."

Latronic Notron

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"In the words of Paul Nagle from his Sound On Sound (June 1997) review: "Is it a hi-tech bathroom scale? Is it a 21st-century computer game? Is it Darth Vader's toilet seat? No, it's an innovative LED-laden MIDI step sequencer, with the power to wring new life from your old synths".

via Johan.

Top 20 Greatest Synths - Episode 5

Title link takes you there.