RS7000 Acid House

YouTube via darenager.
"Rough mix of a track I am currently working on, it is just me muting tracks in and out on the RS7000 in realtime.

The track was written as a retrospective to the sounds I used to dance to at parties in my youth from 1987-1989. It takes influence from artists such as Mr Fingers, Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson and other great early house and acid house producers. There are no samples from other records but there is a couple of 303 loops and an 808 sample from my machines.

Hope you enjoy it."

Awesome stuff. I remember going to raves during this time in LA. Good times.

MOOG Micromoog

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"To download a copy of the Moog Micromoog User Guide:
1) Right-Click on the link below
2) Choose “Save Target As...”
3) Choose your destination folder
4) Click “Save”
Moog Micromoog User Guide - 13.3MB (pdf file)"

Octave CAT

via this auction.

Details:
The original CAT Synthesizer was released in 1975 when the company now called Voyetra Turtle Beach, INC was called Octave Electronics. The second version called the CAT SRM (for "Series Revised Model"), was released in 1977, followed by the SRM2 in 1980. By that time the company had merged with Plateau Electronics and the company name changed to Octave-Plateau Electronics,Inc.

The Cat analog synthesis design served as the basis for the Voyetra Eight Synthesizer released in 1982. The Voyetra Eight's rich sound was utilized by such artists as Edgar Winter, Bon Jovi, The Eurythmic, Stevie Wonder and many other famous artists of the early 1980's. A copy of the first literature for the Voyetra Eight is included with the CAT instruction manual.

This CAT SRM 2 was the last of 100 units manufactured in 1981. These units were stored in a warehouse for 20 years and were intended for distrubution on the 25th anniversary of the CAT debut. As such this is a "Collector's Edition" CAT Synthesizer representing the art of analog music synthesis in the days before MIDI, programmability and digital synthesis."

Roland SH-05

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Bell Labs Speech Synthesis

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Details:

"This complete and unused kit contains everything you need to understand speech synthesis and build your own synthesiser. Produced by Bell Systems Laboratories in 1963, the kit contains all the original equipment and parts which includes the book with complete instructions. The kit is complete and has never been used. It was intended for high school and college students and not for young children. This is an excellent source for hands on learning. When Bell Labs made something, they made it extremely well."

Update via Pete in the comments:
Bell Labs Speech Synthesis site
Kits still available here

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System-100M

flickr by zubibaja.

Check out the other pics as well.

What You See When You Die

Maybe this synth obsession is not worth it after all. Title link takes you there [or click here]. Via Xavier.
A little Jean-Jaques Perrey for you.

New genoQs OS and Website

"Dear all,
some time has passed since we brought to you version 1.0 of the Octopus OS. Response has been tremendous, and we have been quiet since. So have been most of you, playing your machines, as it turned out. And rightfully so!

In case you were wondering about us.. we were busy doing some homework in the background. And finally, we are now ready to present you our latest achievements!

1. NEW WEB PRESENCE
We have completely redesigned our web page. Same place, different look!
We are far from done, but this structure enables us to grow more easily.

2. NEW FORUM
The new page incorporates a new forum engine.
We will not move contents from the old forum into the new one, but let
us know if you find that something should be carried over and we will work
out a solution.
The user access information is not carried over either, so you need to
re-register to use the new forum. Sorry for any inconvenience this may pose.

3. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
We have significantly cut our delivery lead time for Octopus.
For all practical purposes, one can say that Octopus is now available
without any wait!

4. FACE LIFTED DOCUMENTATION
We have re-formatted the Octopus documentation, and hope that you will
find it more easy to read. We have also isolated out the tutorials, to make
them easier to handle and hopefully multiply in the near future.
Separate PDFs in A4 and Letter versions will appear shortly, watch the space.

5. OS UPDATE
Finally, the release of a new OS version!
OS 1.02 is primarily a maintenance release, but does bring you a few goodies:
. Multi-track MIDI recording
. Channel pressure is now part of the implementation
. Pitch bend is processed in 14 bit resolution
. Throughput of MIDI data when recording
The update to 1.02 is recommended for all users.

We hope you enjoy the new artifacts, and as always, we much look forward to your comments and feedback.

Until then, happy sequencing!


Gabriel + Marcel"

Christine Ott and the Ondes Martenot

The woman playing the Ondes Martenot in this Radiohead video is Christine Ott. Title link takes you to her home page.

















Via Yusynth

Wooden_Box_Music_

YouTube via cretin4321. http://cliplead.blogspot.com/