Hohner Electronium

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Details (Google translated from German):

"The Hohner Electronium pi is an old key board from the year 1950 that the concept almost resembles a Clavioline. The basic sound of both instruments is however very different, since the tone generator of the Electronium pi produces a saw tooth wave shape, while it is with the Clavioline a square wave form. Roughly expenditure-press sounds the Elektronium pi rather like a trumpet and the Clavioline rather like a clarinet. The equipment is developed complete in tube technology and offers from tubes admitted sound. One can call these only extremely alive, warmly and nobly. It is one of the instruments, with which the well-known composer Karl Heinz stick living invented and justified the electronic music in the year 1954 in Cologne Studio of the WDR."

This was sent in via Ivan of Squeezytunes. You can read more about it here.

Big Train Keith Emerson Sketch

YouTube via grebmops

Previously via loonytunes1234. Yes!!! I heard about this a while back and have been periodically checking YouTube for it. Looks like Loonytunes-Life The Universe And Everything put it up. Awesome. BTW, if you like this, be sure to check out Big Train's cover of Roxy Music's Virginia Plain here, then search YouTube for Big Train in general.

Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer 3x2 FT Oil Painting

If you can't afford the $2275 or $3150 303, you could always get this. I think I'd prefer the cake. Seriously though, this wouldn't look bad in a studio, minus the Baby Watch The Star, of course. Well maybe just the little guy minus the words...

Ensoniq TS10 TS12 Tutorial

via this auction.

It's a manual. Anyone know if this was separate from the user's manual, or just some creative marketing for the manual?

Casio CK-500

flickr by polaranta.

I love these crazy boom boxes plus keyboard.

korg

flickr by prudencio fonseca.

Korg MS20

Rhodes Chroma

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. BTW, if anyone reading this picks it up, be sure to check out the excellent Rhodes Chroma site and join the group. It really is a great resource and worthwhile group to join.

Note the Chroma doesn't have any knobs but it has an editing slider and each button you see serves as a parameter selection in edit mode. Like the MOOG Source, you select the parameter you want to edit with one button and you then use the slider to edit. The only real challenge is understanding what the two digit led is displaying for each paramater. For things like cutoff and env settings this is easy enough, but for mod routings you might need the manual handy when first learning the synth. The manual is available at the Rhodes Chroma site.

Duckon 2007 Singing Tesla Coil

video upload by kmelwing

"This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.

What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it's firing."

via HarriL. And then there was this.

TickTock

Chris put up a new Buchla 200e noodle titled TickTock. Title link takes you to the track, where you will also find previous 200e tracks by Chris.

BTW, if you want to see his setup pictured here live, he will have it at the Garden of Memory show this Thursday. Update via wavedeform in the comments: Here's a link to a write up in the SF Chronicle about the show.

Thomas Henry Voltage Controlled Quadrature Function Generator

Title link takes you there.
Some snips:
"To have a quadrature waveform, you really need at least two waves. The first wave could be said to be at 0 degrees, and the second wave could be said to be in quadrature with that wave - in other words, the quadrature waveform is 90 degrees out of phase to the zero degree waveform. The frequency of both waves is the same - it's the offset in phase between the two waves that defines the function.

Figure 1 [top two] illustrates this offset - notice how the lower triangle waveform crosses the center line 90 degrees "behind" the upper triangle wave.

It's easy enough to get two waves at the same frequency and one hundred eighty degrees out of phase - that only requires simple inversion - the 180 degree waveform is merely the exact opposite of the 0 degree waveform. But, to get an offset of 90 degrees, well, that takes some doing....

Applications for the VCQFG
Thomas' mention of the use of the VCQFG with his SuperSeque design above is just one of a plethora of applications. Consider that, with this module, you have access to four triangle waveforms that are at the same frequency, but have rise and fall segments offset symetrically over time."