Electro-Harmonix HOG Demo

YouTube via ehpedals.
"Electro-Harmonix Hog Demo NAMM 2006"

Electro Harmonix HOG

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"The Electro-Harmonix HOG is a totally polyphonic guitar synthesizer, giving the user complete control of up to 10 interval pitches. Musicians can unveil an entirely new tone potential with anything from extreme sub bass to powerful multi-octave chords, including fifth and third intervals. Dedicated Filtering and envelope control, with numerous setup options, make the HOG a must-have performance instrument. And NO special pickup is required and NO glitches are created.

Features include:

#10 intervals of pitch can be mixed by using 10 surface faders, which may then be played polyphonically with perfect tracking:

· 1 octaves down · 1 octave + a perfect fifth
· 2 octaves down · 2 octaves up
· Original pitch · 2 octaves up + a major third
· One Fifth up · 3 octaves up
· 1 octave up · 4 octaves up

#Six unique expression modes are accessible via the Exp button, expression pedal*and MIDI. Octave bends, step bends, volume control, user defined Wah-Wah, Filter control, plus two unique freeze modes: With Freeze Gliss, an expression pedal freezes a chord while letting you play over it having your frozen notes gliss to meet your new notes. The Freeze Volume freezes a chord allowing you to control its volume, with an expression pedal, as you play on top of it.

#An external “whammy” pedal and a momentary surface mounted Exp button, allow for real-time access and manipulation of all of the above expression modes. A new level of performance interaction.

#Dual Envelope generators that work with both the higher and lower frequency ranges. Allows unique contours of attack and release in two different harmonic regions.

#12 dB per octave 2-pole low pass filter and resonance controls manipulate the tone while also being a critical element within the expression modes.

#Surface Foot access for True Bypass, expression control and envelope engagement.

#Store performance presets when you use the optional external Electro-Harmonix foot controller. 9LDC-500 power supply included"

Serge Modular in Custom Case

This was for sale in 2007 by hhelms.

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MS20-KLON

KORG MS20 Clone

Not one, but two: "One with classical filter architecture, the other one with CEM filters."

Title link takes you to the site in German. You can find the Google translated version in English here.

via dk

243 Programmable Pulser

YouTube via verbos2000.
"My custom programmable pulser module for Buchla systems."
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Buchla MARF in action

Luther Rochester playing his Buchla Music Easel at AHMW 2007

YouTube via therealretrosynth.
"Luther Rochester generates some nice organic tones on his Buchla Music Easel at AHMW 2007."

Dance like a star

YouTube via analoguecrazy4.
"Here is my cover of an old Human League demo 'Dance like a star'. This demo was made in late 1977 and was never released. The synth the Human League used on this demo was the Minikorg 700S." Guess the synths used here. Hint in the labels.

Korg MS-20 demonstration

YouTube via VintSynth.
"A Korg MS-20 showing that after thirty years she's still worth every knob, in a simple bass sequence together with a Roland D-50 in the VintSynth Studio in Almere, the Netherlands."

Prophet Synthesizer Model 1000 Manual

via this auction.

"Fresh, full black and white copy of original operations manual in 8-1/2 x 11 format."

Update via the comments: This is the Rev 1 manual up for auction. If you know how different the Rev 1 to the Rev 3 manual is, feel free to comment.

Update via Stephen in the comments:
"The rev1 and rev3 manuals are completely different. The rev 1 manual is made up of mostly patch sheets which use a different template than the later patch sheets. The later manuals, including the Prophet-10 manual, contain excellent descriptions of the digital/analogue hybrid synthesizer.

On the synths, rev1s could be modified with a rom/timing circuit update which stablized tuning (which became part of the rev2 design) as well as a cassette dump interface. Both of my rev1s have these two field mods. Neither the rev1, rev nor the first rev3 had a 'live' control panel in preset mode without the user hitting an 'edit' button. Live editing actually didn't occur until the rev 3.1 (not the rev 3.0). If you want to call the sequencer interface 'integrated midi' then that would be the rev 3.2. Dave and John call the sequencer interface spec 'Pre-MIDI MIDI'. The MIDI retrofit for the rev 3.2 and 3.3 (as well as the rev 3 Prophet-10) is basically a daughter card which can either be interconnected to the rom socket via a ribbon cable or by using socket with extra long solder tails. The rev 3.1 and earlier revs could not use this field mod. (Kenton has a solution).

Both the rev1 and rev2 have a number of SSM chips, but I wouldn't say they have a gazillon. 10 VCO chips, 5 VCFs, 5 VCAs and 10 EGs. The individual EGs, which have to be trimmed, really help give the rev1 and rev2 its unruly (as opposed to unstable) character. Of course the SSM filters are also equally notorious for that reputation. But this comes well after the fact. If you look back, or if you were there, you know that the Prophet-5 became successful because:

1. You could play 5 notes of the same patch
2. You could store your patch

3. It was $4500

Within a few years it became unsuccessful because:

1. You could play 5 notes of the same patch
2. It had a wood case
3. It was expensive "

You can download and print out the Prophet-5 Rev 3 manual from here.

KORG MS20

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