Wednesday, June 20, 2007
KORG Synthe-Bass
Details:
"This is a vintage analog synthesizer released around 1975 (Around the time of the Mini and Maxi Korgs). It's got 5 waveform choices a huge Sine, a buzzy Square, Fat Triangle, More buzzy Square, and then a Phaser setting that makes a sound that is similar to an old Moog Prodigy. It also has a "traveller" (filter cutoff). It is a very small and light Synth/ keyboard (17 keys) that puts out great analog bass tones"
Update: There was also a pedal version that looks like it could work as a desktop unit which you can see in this post.
Update via the comments: "RE: the update: the synthpedal isn't a pedal version, it lacks the VCO and more. The synthepedal is just a env follower VCF, an amazing filter but not a bass synth"
Emulator II

KORG Micro Preset M500 SP

Click here for shots via this auction.
Update: Some interesting bits on the M500 just in via The Most Underrated Synth post.

They could afford 6 VCAs because, for a fixed-voice, fixed-envelope monosynth, they could get away with one-transistor VCAs and RC (NO active component) envelopes, and the VCF/VCA chip I imagine was used in other synths as well.
OMD used this synth a lot on their first few albums. You can recognize it easily in their stuff before they got into samplers, which you can also recognize (Dazzle Ships onwards)"
Vintage Drum Machines
The following are all part of this lot for auction. The named links for each takes you to the individual auction.
KORG RHYTHM 55B
Shots saved here.
CAMEO
Shots saved here.
UNIVOX SR55
Shots saved here.
Hammond Auto-Vari 64
Shots saved here.
OLSEN XX-100
Shots saved here.
Side-Kick-er and Rythm Master
Shots saved here.
More vintage drum machines. And then there was this.
PPG
Click here for additional pics via intercorni.
There are some nice shots of the insides as well.
Pictured:
PPG PRK - blue
PPG 360 Wave Computer - black
the squarewave parade - SOFTCORE

"this is a new original analog design ( though inspired by the single bands of the korg P3100 filter ) with a few different things going on. the signal path flows like this - buffer - very high gain preamp with switchable clipping distortion - resonant bandpass filter with variable resonance that can self oscillate at higher frequencies and has an adjustable and switchable frequency range - variable heavy breakup distortion - and a violet ( or blue - i ran out ) level indicating led"
Title link takes you there.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
WintherStormer - Woodwork

10-band Panned Equalizer in Csound
via thumbuki in the comments of this post:
"I built a 10-band equalizer in Csound where each band is panned individually, using phase offset lfos similar to the quadrature function generator.
Here's the snippet of code that creates the phase offset lfos:
klfo1 table ( klfo + 0.0 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
klfo2 table ( klfo + 0.1 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
klfo3 table ( klfo + 0.2 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
...
klfoA table ( klfo + 0.9 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
The floating point numbers set the phase for each lfo. Phase is normalized to a range of 0 to 1, so a value of 0.1 equals 36 degrees and 0.5 equals 180 degrees.
The full code can be found here, in instr 112."
You can read more about it on thumbuki and the CSound Blog.
"I built a 10-band equalizer in Csound where each band is panned individually, using phase offset lfos similar to the quadrature function generator.
Here's the snippet of code that creates the phase offset lfos:
klfo1 table ( klfo + 0.0 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
klfo2 table ( klfo + 0.1 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
klfo3 table ( klfo + 0.2 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
...
klfoA table ( klfo + 0.9 ) * ilength, iwave, 0, 0, 1
The floating point numbers set the phase for each lfo. Phase is normalized to a range of 0 to 1, so a value of 0.1 equals 36 degrees and 0.5 equals 180 degrees.
The full code can be found here, in instr 112."
You can read more about it on thumbuki and the CSound Blog.
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