"Roland JD-800 ( JD 800 ) Synth including 5 Sound Libraries (SL-JD 80). This keyboard is 61 keys, Velocity & Channel Aftertouch(working on all 61 keys) w/ 4 velocity curves; 24 voice polyphony; 6 Parts Multitimbral (Multi mode): 5 part multitimbral + drum mode; Sound memory: 64 internal RAM patches storage positions plus 64 Rom-card patches; Tone generation: S+S (Sampling and Synthesis) with resonant filters; 6 MegaByte ROM with 108 PCM Waves plus 5 Libraries of ROM plug in cards(one for wave(up to 131 per library) and one for the 64 additional patches per library) Libraries include SL-JD80-02 Drums & Percussion DANCE, SL-JD80-03 Rock Drums, SL-JD80-04 Strings Ensemble, SL-JD80-05 Brass Section, SL-JD80-08 Accordion."
"360 Systems Spectre Guitar Synthesizer circa 1978. Unit in original tolex case, no manual what you see is what you get. Unit was modified to respond to CV/Gate inputs. I did not preform this mod so I cannot answer any questions other than it does respond to standard 1 V per octave CV and gate from an Arp Sequencer. This is essentailly an Oberheim SEM in a portable tolex case minus one envelope gen, you might be able to mod it and add the second envelope as the boards are original Oberheim SEM 'A'." Also see this post.
"It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire.
The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound.
Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and continuing with the installation of the second instrument at Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first comprehensive music synthesizer.
Yep... this one officially beats dumpster diving for synths.
"In the shallows, we came across a bunch of pipefish. These guys are fun to play with. They seem to like divers so we hung out playing with them for a bit. As we started to make our way in, we ran across what looks to be a baby Fringehead or baby Sculpin. I am not quite sure so if anyone can make a proper ID, I would greatly appreciate it.
Overall, a GREAT dive!!!
Below are some highlights from the dive:" [link] No mention of the Roland MSQ-700, but the shot is in the set. via Jeff.
"This is a super rare stack of blueprint machanical drawing from the never release Oberheim Electronics OB8K. It was also called the Eclipse. This synth was supposed to be release around 1989 and was shown at NAMM, but the company when through a big change at that time and it never happened. It was the early precursor to the OB-MX.(which ended up being nothing like the OB8K.) There are various drawings for the sheet metal components, knobs, benders, top pressure formed plastic, etc"
"This is a super rare stack of source code listings from the mid to late 80's Oberheim Electronics products. I didn't go through all of it, but I saw stuff from the DPX1, and some of the Perf/X products like the arpeggiator."
images via this auction
"Roland JD-800 ( JD 800 ) Synth including 5 Sound Libraries (SL-JD 80). This keyboard is 61 keys, Velocity & Channel Aftertouch(working on all 61 keys) w/ 4 velocity curves; 24 voice polyphony; 6 Parts Multitimbral (Multi mode): 5 part multitimbral + drum mode; Sound memory: 64 internal RAM patches storage positions plus 64 Rom-card patches; Tone generation: S+S (Sampling and Synthesis) with resonant filters; 6 MegaByte ROM with 108 PCM Waves plus 5 Libraries of ROM plug in cards(one for wave(up to 131 per library) and one for the 64 additional patches per library) Libraries include SL-JD80-02 Drums & Percussion DANCE, SL-JD80-03 Rock Drums, SL-JD80-04 Strings Ensemble, SL-JD80-05 Brass Section, SL-JD80-08 Accordion."
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