Roland Jupiter-8

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"Vintage 8 Voice Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer. The Jupiter 8.. Roland's flagship professional polysynth from the early 80s.. yet to be surpassed. This is a beautiful and magical synthesizer like no other. Play a just a few notes and nostalgia from countless recordings of the past comes flooding to mind. Such joyous and amazing sounds emit from this machine..."

via Loscha.

Roland MC-4

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"Roland MC-4
Vintage 4 Channel CV/Gate Sequencer MC-4A

This is a quite rare and hard to find CV/Gate sequencer from the late 70s early 80s..
If you are sequencing with vintage analog gear this is the cream of sequencers, ask anyone who has one and they will tell you it has the tightest timing and most flexible advanced programming features.
This is the A version, MC-4A. Internal Memory is 16Kbytes. It has not been upgraded.
Please note this is a 100V unit, in Australia and Europe you will require a stepdown transformer. It draws 25W so a relatively cheap transformer will be fine.
US may also require a small stepdown transformer to go down to 100V.."

via Loscha.

Nobukazu Takemura Interview (from Salon Magazine)

YouTube via likeafatrat. Sent my way via Loscha.
"play at his studio place: kyoto/Japan"
Spot the synths. Be sure to watch the gear pan towards the end.

Polyvox (Polivoks) CV/Gate Mod

Title link takes you to more info and shots of the mod.

Plan B Model 25 Now Available

"A quick note to announce that the Model 25 Multi-tasking Audio Processors will be at Analogue Haven tomorrow - Friday, August 3.

The M25 is the second swiss-army knife module in our range, the basic idea behind it to provide a series of useful synthesis functions without a hefty investment of real estate. Consisting of a Manual Attenuator (this was Tim Johnston's idea, and a great one), a dynamic VC Waveshaper, White/Pink analog Noise Generator, a Linear VCA with a separate velocity input, and a high-quality Ring Modulator which boasts over 65 dB of carrier suppression and a unique x-feedback function - all comfortably crammed into only 10HP of panel space.

More information can be found at the link below, replete with sound samples which I think are worth checking out."

Kokoro Scan

Cool video for an upcoming SEGA game for the Nintendo DS, featuring a Minimoog lead and some vocoder.
Sent my way via Kitsunexus. MP3 here.

明和電機 「一番素敵な体で行こう！」

YouTube via musica95. Sent my way via Chris Muir.

"The robotic vocalist, dubbed “Seamoons,” is a combination of mechanical bellows and a computer controlled rubber vocal chord that’s monitored and modified in real time, sounding something like a tiny electric Yma Sumac."

Note the robot with a mic. The above quote is a snip from here, where you will find more info on the artist, Maywa Denki, and the tools they use. BTW, if anyone knows/finds more info on the "guitar" like devices feel free to comment.

Waldorf Pulse Demo

via zerosum of zerosuminertia via the comments of this post.
You can download the mp3 here.

Jerry Lewis y el theremin

YouTube via pertinazmente. Sent my way via Vectorsynth.

ASM2-Wizard Etched

via Mark Pulver on AH.

"I got the etched panel for the ASM2-Wizard last night (thank you Laurie!) and I thought I'd share how it looks in the custom cabinet. This is a BIG box. I dunno that's its final location. Time to get the soldering iron out and get to this thing!

ref:
asm2.htm
asm2-wizard-about
nice-racks"