MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, September 28, 2007

KORG X-911 Guitar Synth

Korg Maxi-Korg K3 (800DV) Vintage Synthesizer 1975

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"This is a unique vintage 1975 Korg Maxi-Korg synthesizer - serial number 0594! This synth is also known as the Korg 800DV and Univox K3 but was sold in the US under the name Maxi-Korg K3. The power of the Maxi-Korg lay in the way it could create and play sounds. In essence, it was two Korg 700S synths in a single box, so you could treat it as two distinct synths, creating two different sounds, and then playing them independently. Some other mid-'70s synths allowed you to play two notes, but these used the same patch parameters for both. Only the Maxi-Korg could produce two sounds that you could play as a composite, or as two independent synths. Yet this was only half the story, because the 800DV allowed you to allocate the voices in a huge variety of ways. This made it possible to program more realistic, more expressive, or more off-the-wall sounds than was possible on other monosynths. The Maxi-Korg was, and remains, one of the most impressive, flexible and articulate synths ever built."

ARP 2800 Modular

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"one of a kind ARP 2800 analog modular synthesizer. This synth started out its life as an ARP odyssey MarkII (black and gold faced unit), which then had its keyboard removed, front panel hand brushed and refinished, custom durable (water proof) sticker artwork (which is reminiscent of the original artwork) created and applied, and then reassembled in a custom plywood modular cabinet. The back panel of the cabinet has space to tuck the attached power cord into. Also added are 1/4" jacks tapping off nearly all the signal outputs, and allowing you to insert any signal into the signal modulation selector switches. And also adding several 4x jack multiples. The unit works fine, but when the modifications were done, it disabled the use of the CV portamento control, and the octave range select switch. The synth can be controlled with standard 1V/Oct CV input and positive polarity gate signals. I think this unit also had a snappy envelope mod done to the ADSR envelope, as I always found the ARP envelopes not quite fast enough for my tastes."

Quasimidi Sirius

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* polyphony -- 28 voices
* multitimbral -- 7 parts - 3 synth,4 drums
* Patches -- 384, 16 vocoder settings
* drumkits -- 192 kick, 192 snares, 192 hi hats, 192 percussion sets each of 12 sounds.
* vocoder -- nine band with high and low pass filters
* patterns -- 242 - 142 preset, 100 user
* songs -- 16
* sequencer tracks -- seven
* effects -- Two processors with reverb, delay, chorus, and flange; global overblast effect.
* keyboard -- 49 keys, velocity sensitive
* inputs -- mic, carrier, analyse, footswitch
* outputs -- stereo out, headphone
* midi -- in,out,thru

Roland TB-303

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YouTube via jd800er. KORG DW8000. Via kitsunexus.
"Here's some more info on the DW-8000: http://www.dw8000.com/index.html

And here's some more sound demos: http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/dw8000b.html

IMO the DWGS waveforms on the MicroKorg don't sound nearly as good as they do on the DW-8000."