Studio Electroncs SE-1

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Sequential Circuits Pro-One

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Farfisa SoundMaker

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Roland Juno-60

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Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer

Univox Mini-Korg Service Manual

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MOOG Synth Amp Manual

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Vember Audio Short Circuit Free Sampler

"Sampling is supposed to be fun

Prior to shortcircuit it wasn't as fun as it could be.

Shortcircuit was created as a reaction against the ongoing trend where software samplers are being designed with the primary intent of library playback. It is intended for people who, like us, consider a sampler to be a musical instrument in its own right, and not just a way to emulate other instruments. It has been a very high priority to make sure that adding and editing individual samples is as fast and logical as possible.

The sample hierarchy in shortcircuit allow you to place samples directly at the highest level of the multi, without having to deal with instrument hierarchies and patches. Want to add a sample to your song? Just drag & drop the sample into shortcircuit and you're ready to go. Samples can be put in groups for multi-sampling and kit-building, but the complexity is only there when you need it.
let your ears be the judge

Sound quality is of highest concern, and shortcircuit uses very high-quality interpolation to ensure that your samples sound as good as the source material, regardless of the pitch you play them at. All filters & effects are calculated at the precision required for them to sound the way intended and oversampling are used when required to prevent aliasing.

Shortcircuit was designed to sound great, all other concerns have been secondary. But don't take our word for it, download 'shortcircuit free' and find out for yourself.
...and the toys, don't forget the toys!

Each voice in shortcircuit features two filter-slots, and the selection isn't limited to the traditional pick. In addition to the regular lowpass/highpass/bandpass/notch & peak-filters and variations thereof there is an array of filter algorithms (not strictly filters in the traditional sense, but called so because of their location in the audio path) including distortion, parametric/graphic/morphing equalizers,bit-reduction/decimation, gating, limiting, slew-rate distortion, ring-modulation, frequency shifting and phase-modulation (better known as FM). The selection even includes analog-style oscillators that you can mix with the sample."

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NuDSP Mod271

" Mod271 pronounced as "Mode" (the 271 being a play on Euler's constant) is really a DSP playground with unified audio/MIDI support and functionally is supposed to exist somewhere in between Reaktor, reacTable and Reason (although this isn't the case quite yet). I will refer to Mod271 as M271 throughout the documentation.

This all started out as my own personal frustration with clumsy knobs and sliders in current use by most audio software. I wanted to have an intuitive interface with variable resolution control built-in. The entire interface is rendered in 3D, so you can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel. Zooming in on a node will give you more precise control over its position, zooming out does the opposite.

Really I wanted an environment where there is no different between MIDI or audio signals, so an audio effect will work the same with a MIDI signal. Also I wanted an integrated way to handle envelopes, something that has a direct and visual connection with a node, this ended up meaning the removal of the GUI all together, there is only one interface for everything :) PCs are fast enough now to make this happen.

I'd like M271 to end up as a total modular environment where you can easily make performances just as easy as a synthesizer or effect.

Some cool features include:

* ASIO/MIDI support
* built with portability in mind, a mac/linux version shouldn't be terribly difficult.
* everything is a full audio-rate signal which means you can do DSP type stuff to say a MIDI stream.
* there is a VSTi version in the works but it is still pretty unusable in a general case.
* every node can be automated with unlimited control points and automation takes place right in the 3D environment.
* nodes can influence any amount of other nodes or switched into a singular state.
* all signals are drawn at audio rate and with full hardware acceleration, although this can be disabled.
* the entire environment is rendered in 3D.
* radial and linear influence modes are supported for every node.
* all envelopes and motion are completely sample accurate, meaning you can make an oscillator out of an envelope.
* over 25 node types, of course this is going to grow.
* Python node type that will allow easy extensions.
* and most importantly it's fun! "

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Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre

Click here for a video on CNet covering this year's Vintage Computer Festival. The Con Brio makes an appearance at about 2:09 left.

via James Grahame of the excellent Retro Thing.

Two Studio Pics via Scott Metzger

I spy with my synth eye...

Yamaha CS80
Prophet VS Rack
E-mu E6400
? You fill the rest