MATRIXSYNTH

U-MAX

"Based on UF7 and Doepfer kits, U-MAX is a master control keyboard designed by JMCO and CMa to pilot VSTi plug ins. It’s a non commercial unit."

Update: another shot here.

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"it has been serviced and modified by Arp guru Phil Cirocco of CMS in 2004. Phil is arguably the top 2600 technician in the world and anyone that has heard a CMS modded 2600 knows that they are far superior to a stock unit. Phil went through it and fixed any problems, rebuilt the power supply, did his audio path upgrade (the best thing that can happen to a 2600 in my opinion) and replaced the original filter with a CMS 4012, which is identical sonically but has greatly improved stability. In short, this is a screamer that works and sounds amazing."

Axis 64 Midi Controller

YouTube via drbrainwork.
"Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Musiic, the arrangement of notes helps you understand note relationships and create as you never have before."

multitouch general midi

YouTube via cladclad.
"multitouch surface as a MIDI controller" Anyone know more about this particular one?

Justice Dance

Title link takes you to a pretty cool video posted on one of my favorite blogs, Apollo Pony. There's an interesting bit about 3/4 into it that features this T shirt. What happens only happens with the keyboard. Before you watch it and get disappointed with the payoff, it isn't that big - just thought it was interesting (cool) that it only happens with the "synth."

Note: In the middle of this post I thought I'd see if it was on YouTube and it is. Below is the video. Note the video you will find via the title link on Apollo Pony is much larger and higher res so I recommend that version, but if you are not too concerned with the quality, the video is below. Note that you can also save the version linked on Apolly Pony once it is fully loaded.

Justice - D.A.N.C.E (Version Finale)

YouTuve via Antho05.

Formant Modular Brochures

Remember the Formant Modular? Swissdoc scanned two brochures and sent them my way.

"I spent some quality time in scanning and editing to pdf two Formant Brochure from the company ICA which was selling those kits back in the late 70s till early 80s"

First Brochure
Title as JPG
Second Brochure
Big Formant from the Brochure
mirrored here

ALTAIR-231

via this auction.

Formanta EMS-01

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Synthesizer has:
- 3 oct keyboard
- modulator, freq modulator, width pulse mod, filter, amplitude modulator (amplifier)
- osc1, osc2 - width-range oscillators with 4 waveforms each
- mixer, noise generator, external input, ring modulator
- filter with resonance and adr (like on polivoks)
- amplifier with mod and adsr

organ has:
- 5 oct keys
- 6 waveshape registers
- freq vibrato with - rate, depth and delay
- stereo phazer (for both organ and synth) with rez level
- sustain level

connections: phones, mono out, stereo l/r, pedal in, osc's tuning, sync contr in/out, ext input."
There are samples linked in the auction from ruskeys were you can find more info.

Oberheim 4 Voice FVS-1

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Roland Paraphonic 505

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"A great classic symphonic synthesizer like the type of thing Vangelis used to make the score for Bladerunner. This analog synth has three tone generator sections: bass, strings and synth. Other features include: LFO, Ensemble (chorus), VCF jack (for a pedal-controlled filter), Vibrato and keyboard splitting."