The Development And Practice of Electronic Music

via this auction.

"The Development And Practice of Electronic Music by John H Appleton & Ronald C Perera. A classic from back in 1975! Very informative history of early synths and electronic music. Featuring some great photos! VG+ Condition, hardcover 384 pages."

Formanta EMS-01

images via this auction.

"It was made in Soviet Union at well-known Kachkanar (Polivoks) factory. This 2-manual instrument combines mono analog synthesizer and poly analog organ/strings. Synth has double OSC, noise generator, many different types of modulation, excellent analog filters, stereo phaser, ring modulator etc. Organ has several timbres with vibrato and chorus. It’s great instrument for any music styles and sound fx design. Sound is very original, warm and really individual! I think EMS-01 sounds more interesting than well-known Polivoks and many other popular analog synths. By the way, Formanta EMS-01’s retail was 3 times more than Polivoks in USSR!"

DSCN3818

flikcr by nakedintruder.

click here for the full size shot.

The Harvestman Malgorithm

Update: I think this is the first moth on MATRIXSYNTH.

AH Bay Area 2007

YouTubes via synthdood.

synthesizer-magazin

YouTube via moognase.
"kooft & abonniert das synthesizer-magazin!"

Audio Damage Fluid

via Analog Industries.

"Here is Fluid, next in our series (of three, as it turns out) inexpensive effects. This one, due to obvious demand, is a chorus. I'll edit this post with a sample or two in the next couple hours."

Inside the Prophet '08

More images here via Stephen Jones and a shot of the voice boards here (zip of three here) via Cikira.

Update: Note the Sequential Circuits badge on this second bottom shot. No doubt, via synthwood.

Roland SH-5 Schematics via Mike Peake

Title link takes you to them.
Via Mike on AH:
"Yanking a good filter from a killer synth doesn't replicate the entire experience of a killer synth. So, here's most of it.

The SH5 has a great VCF, which sits somewhere between the TB303 and IR3109. The ADSR plucks slightly harder than the Moog 911 envelope, and this helps make the filter sound even better.

The BPF is one nasty-sounding circuit. Especially in parallel with the VCF! Grind time. I believe that KGS (and associates) have done PCBs for this one.

The VCOs have several aspects of interest. They are not huge-sounding, but have great hard sync tonality, very sweet square waves, have soft sync, etc. Modular users are starting to discover that oscillators are not all alike, so these up the ante.

The ring modulator is unfortunately just a typical 1496 circuit. Drop in a vintage design and this would be one amazing synth...

So, all of the parts add up. There are a couple of PCB trace drawings, for the two oscillators, unfortunately not for the filters. I'd love to have three or more oscillator 2s with the synch functions, especially soft sync.

My System 700 schematics and PCB drawings have seemingly found another owner. Cry. I'd post them if I still had them.

(I also added the EMU lag processor dox. If you can suss the mystery components.)

To enjoy!

-Mike"

Monome Thoughts and Ship Dates on The Stretta Procedure

"They've designed the instrument they want, and offered it to the world. Take it or leave it. I understand that. However, continuing to ignore these requests feels like hubris to me. They don't feel it is important because it doesn't fit into how they personally use the device. Not acknowledging or addressing the importance of velocity is the sort of closed philosophy I'd expect from Yamaha, not monome."

Creamware Pro-12 Review

Title link takes you to the Spanish review on Cellular Structures. You can read a Google translated version here.

"Now which everybody is affected with the new Prophet the 8 of Dave Smiths, and in spite of that way existing emulations for computer like Pro 53 of Native Instruments or Prophet V of Arturia, I have decided on the German company/signature Creamware to acquire my version of mythical Prophet V, a version in rack and digitalis (the one of Dave Smith is analogical) that, apparently it is not inferior absolutely to the original one."