EMS Synthi Hi Fli

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Details:
"very rare EMS synthi hi fli .A,K.A ( the sound freak ) guitar synthi from 1974 used on pink floyds dark side of the moon and many other great albums genisis zeppelin proco harum etc comes with original foot pedals ( two in one ) and original carry case in good working condition

Main Controls and Effects (Left to right on control panel)

* Top Boost Slider to provide up to 30db boost at high frequencies. The output from this section goes to the Octave Shift, Sustained Fuzz and Ring Mod sections.
* Octave Shift Slider mixes in a Sub Octave signal.
* Buzz Switch adds high frequency overtones to the sub octave signal.
* Ring Mod Slider mixes in a signal an octave up when single notes are played or "ring modulated" effects on chords.
* Decay Rate Rotary control for the decay time of Ring Mod and Octave Shift signals.
* Sustain Fuzz Slider mixes variable upper harmonics.
* Attack Rate Rotary control varies the rise time of the sustained fuzz signal.
* Pedal Switches Each switch routes either the left or right pedal to voltage control the Slider above it. Each switch also has an inverted setting so that single pedal movements can produce complimentary effects.
* Solo/Strum Switch to alter the Hi-Fli's sensitivity to playing style.
* Bypass Mix Central Slider to blend the effects and original signal.
* Modulation Selector Rotary Switch selects: Slow Modulation range, Fast Modulation range, Rising Mod envelope, Falling Mod envelope, Rising Ramp and Falling Ramp.
* Treatment Selector Rotary switch selects: VIBRATO, PHASING 1, PHASING 2, WAA-WAA (single resonant peak), WAW-WAW (six resonant peaks) and MEOW (two sets of three peaks in opposite directions).
* Modulation Speed Slider to fine control the modulation rate.
* Modulation Ramp Time Slider to set ramp time between 0 and 5 seconds.
* Modulation Depth Slider controlling depth of modulation applied to Phase Filter.
* Frequency Shift Slider to bias the symmetry of modulation.

Mains powered: 100-135 or 200-260 Vac
Input Signal: 10mV (min) to 3V (max), 100kohm impedance.
Output Signal: -20dbm (min) to 0dbm (max)."

Aelita

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Details:
"Synth was made in 80's years in USSR. Aelita is rare synthesizer actually much more rare than well known polyvox soviet synth. Aelita's sound can be very organic, mellow and very fat, agressive also. Synthesizer has very original "transformer" design with removing main operation panel.

Aelita has three oscillators with square, pulse and saw waveforms.There is LFO with triangle,square,saw and ramp waveforms.Every oscillator can be independently detuned in one octave range. We have possibilities in any chord playing here.You can switch oscillators from 32' to 2' registers.Every oscillator has it's own level slider in mixer section.Oscillator's pitch can be modulated by LFO and first oscillator can be modulated by third oscillator.Than we have nice sounding 24db lowpass filter with screaming resonanse and fat low end.Filter has it's own ADS envelope, keyboard tracking and can be modulated by LFO.VCA has ADS envelope with release switch.There is unussual unison mode when you can get signal of all oscillators in 4 registers in one time."



Samples:
1)1osc_registers_waves.mp3
1 oscillator from 32' to 2' registers switched on square,pulse and saw waveforms. All track is dry signal.

2)filter.mp3
filter's cutoff slider tweaking with increasing resonanse. All track is dry signal.

3)3osc_saw_dryandreverb.mp3
every oscillator's slider moving in mixer section to rich unison. First half of track is dry signal and little reverb added than.

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MOOG the Source

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kung-fu

YouTube via pre1204. Sent my way via Pete. Awesome. I always wondered what Hiromi sounded like. Click here for more videos.

Upate via Sonicbrat:
"Hi being a fan of Hiromi and having seen her live, she is highly versatile. This video doesn't doe her justice and they either revamped the song for the tv version or it was their earlier version. I am not sure ... but this is how Kung-fu sounded like in concert, a lot more intense :)"

Mike Dred Live Acid

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Love the gear numbers.

"Kit:
3x Roland TB-303, 2x Korg KMS-30, Waldorf Pulse Plus, Yamaha RY30, Yamaha FS1R, Boss SE-70, Sony DPS-V55M, The laptop is simply sending a 2 bar midi loop to the FS1R on one track as my MMT-8 was knackered. All other synth sequencing is via 303s. Normally computers are banned!"

BLOC Weekender - Feb 2007 - universal indicator at bloc


Kit:
"1x SH-101, 2x MC-202, 3x TB303, MPC 2500 as a Drum Machine with Drum sounds created on a System 100 model 101 & 102 & MC-202, Waldorf Pulse Plus, 1x Roland MKS-50, 2x Korg KMS-30, 2x TC Electronic Fireworx, 1x Eventide Orville, 1x Boss SE-70, 1x Boss SE-50, 1x Yamaha RY-30, A few other bits and bobs.

It was mind boggling tying to work this lot freestyle. I don't do song modes (with the exception of the odd complex 303 sequence) or program change - it's too restrictive."

Universal Indicator [live] @ Bloc Weekend 2007


"It's a shame it's a clip of transition rather than full on modulation. Here you get to see me trying to dial in fx settings, create a sound on the pulse plus and an mc 202 in realtime. Working my old school mackie 1604 too. But yeah you get to see a fair bit of the kit. Took 2 hours to set up and another hour to fix sync problems. Was a good party tho."

Slave To the Rhythm

via Peter:
"I was looking for a t-shirt from a particular artist and in the process came across this: link. he pictures is tiny, but it's got a giant modular on it :)."

Pretty cool. Anyone know where this picture comes from?

Update via Peter: "I'm not really sure where the design of the shirt came from but the company is run by Nick Philip who worked on the same magazine with Spike Jonze when he was an aspiring teenage photographer. His fashion stores (Anarchic Adjustment) in Japan were some of the first to have instore DJs. The artist I was looking for was Nic Ainley (www.shinybinary.com), his designs are ridculously detailed photoshoped works of art. Nothing to do with synths but amazing none the less."

Update: And here's where the image came from: link

TR-Generation Gear Shots

I had a hard time picking a shot for the post, so I went with two. Be sure to check out the others here and here. via matthew. These are actually from a friend of his. You can find his MySpace page here.

Roland TR-909 and Roland MC-202

Update: photos are by "Jason Charcalla" of charcalla.com

ChucK

Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Audio Programming Language

"what is it? : ChucK is a new (and developing) audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance - fully supported on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based, concurrent programming model that's highly precise and expressive (we call this strongly-timed), as well as dynamic control rates, and the ability to add and modify code on-the-fly. In addition, ChucK supports MIDI, OSC, HID device, and multi-channel audio. Furthermore, the language is designed to favor readability and flexibility over raw performance. It's fun and easy to learn, and offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis programs, and real-time interactive control."

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Elektor Formant

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Details:
"There is a good chance that you have not seen one of these before. They were all hand-built by enthusiasts to the design which was originally published as a series on monthly articles in Elektor magazine in 1977 and 1978. See Rick Jansen's story of how he built one (no, that is not the one offered for sale here) at link.

This is your chance to get your hands dirty and to learn how analog synthesisers work. All the constructional articles, including theory of operation, circuit diagrams, PCB layouts, and even playing techniques were republished by Elektor in a booklet, a copy of which is included with this item. Also included is a demonstration audio cassette.

The Formant was a very modular design. The one offered for sale here has most of the electronics in one unit, and the 49 key keyboard and keyboard interface is in a separate unit (see photos). This is what you get:

3 x VCOs.
1 x 12 dB/octave VCF.
1 x 24 dB/octave VCF.
3 x ADSRs.
1 x LFO module (3 LFOs).
1 x VCA.
1 x noise module.
1 x COM ( Control and Output Module).
1 x keyboard interface.
2 x ring modulators and one keyboard repeat circuit (not Elektor designs).

The Elektor book also includes a design for a Resonance Filter Module, but the Formant offered for sale here does not have a RFM. To some extent, the 12 dB VCF can be used in place of the RFM. Of course, with the information provided in the book, you could build yourself a RFM. Some of the components used in the Formant would be hard to find now, but there is no problem like that for the ICs used in the RFM.

Some extra inputs have been added to the VCA for the ring modulators. Another added VCA input, together with a switch added to the 12dB VCF, allows the two VCFs to be used either in parallel or in series."

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 5

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Note the Wine County cassette with tape dump of patches. Wine Country was formed by ex Sequential Circuits employees after Sequential went under. They are still in business.

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