Plan B Model 28 Product Page with Samples

Title link takes you there.

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR SPEAK & SPELL

via this auction

"ULTRA RARE - Texas Instruments Language Translator and Cartridge. Made in 1980 and famously used by Kraftwerk on the Computer World album. Follow this link for more info. This is an utterly cool piece of retro kit. Bright green fluorescent display, TI's famous robot voices, runs from 4 AA batteries or a standard ac adapter, has a built-in speaker, audio output and volume control. But, if you are looking at this then you probably know all about it anyway. This one works perfectly, is in great condition and complete (including battery cover). As well as the voice functions (spoken words, phrases and letters/numbers that you can type in) it also makes all the usual blips and beeps like the Speak & Spell and other similar TI units. The only minor cosmetic faults are a couple of small indentations on the metal grille covering the speaker. These could be easily removed with a bit of care. Originally designed for word and phrase translation, it can translate between French and English, Spanish or German in either direction, and is complete with the French voice cartridge (tres sexy!) and a printed copy of the manual. I will also include a set of new batteries."

Synth Lovers Attend AHNE2007

Title link takes you to Sonic State's coverage on AHNE which included a collage of vids, some you have seen here and some you haven't, so don't miss it. There are also notes from Dave (that's him playing the MOOG Model 12) of umop and of course, our synth favorite The Packrat. BTW, congrats to Dave for scoring the animation for Weird Al Yankovic's video Virus Alert! A GOOM synth makes an appearance. Not sure what the other one is though.


Virus Alert - "Weird Al" Yankovic

How to play fast on a Microkorg synth

YouTube via hamsterdunce.
"Sure, the keys are smaller than salamander toes. That doesn't mean you can't try and play a squillion notes per second, now does it? Enjoy yet another blistering array of wankadoo note slurrying by Uncle Dave!"

Sonic Lab: Arturia JP8V Virtual Synthesizer

YouTube via sonicstate.

"Sonic Lab presents the Arturia JP8V, a virtual synthesizer based on the fabulous Roland Jupiter 8, as made famous by pretty much any 1980's keyboard based band who had the cash.

Shorn Rah puts on his 80's gear (he's lucky it still fits), hair gel and lipgloss and takes us into the world of the polysynth.

Visit http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/ar... to view the original article"

GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER

GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER ----TOTP's

video upload by industrial82

Two Oberheim OB-Xas. And two DX-7s in the next vid:

GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER ----Razzmatazz

video upload by industrial82

And and OSCar in the last vid:

gary numan berserker
video upload by dexbam

My favorite Numan track. So, anyone know what synth or synths were originally used? The Tops of the Pops version is obviously a lip sync to the original track which does sound like Oberheim to me.

PPG Wave 2

Title link takes you to shots via this auction via the Matrixsynth forum.

Melissa Buys

Title link takes you to Melissa Buys website. You might remember her name from these previous posts. Be sure to check out her Blog and Studio links for more synth shots and synth talk.

Shuriken Plug-ins

Title link takes you to Shuriken, home to a number of VSTis including the following:

SqakAttack

"SqakAttack is a midicontrolled buffersynth with a duck for GUI."

Kerrstinn

"Kerrstinn changes your loops randomly with both moving slices of it around and or applying effects to the slices according to rules that we call generators. It is sort of an automatic controllable recallable loop slicer."

CopyShop

"This my friend is a what you would call a FSU VST, all it does is chopping up buffers and plays them back. of-course you can choose the length of the piece of audio played back and when to apply it.

Blargh its hard to explain what it does, throw it into your DAW feed it some audio and press the little button. Then tweak the big knob. then press the button again, that's how it works and what it does pretty simple."

Berrtill

"Berrtill is a distortion unit modelled from circuit bent hardware. Based on this setup:"


And more... I only put up the VSTis with a video for this post. via GetLoFi.

Conny Plank Studio Liquidation

via Robert:
"German Producer Conrad (Conny) Plank's studio stuff is up for auction. Off the top of my head, I know Plank worked with Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster, and Ultravox. Check out wikipedia for more on Plank. Not bargain prices, but his gear does have historical value" Indeed. Title link takes you there.
Synth shots saved off here.

Update: check this out.

Update: Looks like this was up for auction a while back and I actually posted it. Doh! : ) link. I thought it was old news and searched for it but couldn't find the post, so I figured I probably just heard it was going up for auction but it actually didn't yet. So... I put this up. Oh well, it just goes to show you old news is new news especially in the synth world. What's interesting is the auction site hasn't been updated. Are these items actually still up for sale? The post I previously put up was dated 7/5/06.