Circuit Bent Electronic Drums by 3Xfx

images via this auction

"It is fully loaded with 4 drum pads, 2 cymbal pads, and a foot pedal. Each pad, with the exception of one of the cymbals and the foot pedal, is assignable to quite a few different sounds (i.e. 4 different snare sounds, 6 different tom sounds, handclaps, etc.). The bass and cymbal sounds that are not changeable are able to be affected by the various bends.

There are 8 different styles of preprogrammed beats each with 2 different main beats. You can also play only the beat, only the backing music, or both together.

The other functions of this instrument are the keyboard scratchpad and headset mic. These features are affected by the distortion bends, including the mic input! There are several different selectable scratchpad sounds, and 4 different keyboard sounds.

The bends include 4 distortion switches, which can be used individually or in various combinations for nice distortion sounds. In combinations they also affect the tone of the sounds. There is also a knob for pitch adjustment, with on/off switch, which affects most of the units sounds, from demonic lows to chipmunk highs. One thing to note is that the pitch control does only affects the bass drum and crash cymbal of the electronic drumset sounds. Luckily there are enough sounds to assign to the other drum pads that actually sound pretty good, plus the distortion switches affect all the units sounds. There is also a 1/4 inch output that switches the speaker off.

The sound clips below were recorded from the ouyput directly into the mixer without any additional effects. The first track is me playing the electronic drums and the next 2 are having fun with the preprogrammed beats. Enjoy!

Bent drums
Beats 1
Beats 2"

KAWAI K3M with Dolittle B25 Turbo

via this auction

"Here is a Kawai K3M sound module that uses digital recreated analog waveforms as well as additive synth architecture,but the real deal is the SSM analog filter chips that were the original chips in the glorious rev 1 and 2 prophet 5 and also in the voyetra 8... This auction also includes the Dolittle B25 Turbo ram cart which adds another 2 banks and levels"


Update via Chuck in the comments: "lame/deceptive ad. The K3 uses SSM2044 chips the Prophet and Voyetra use the SSM2040--a very different design, doesn't even sound similar"

It does sound good though.

MAM WARP 9 Analog Multi-Mode Filter

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OBERHEIM MATRIX 6R

via this auction

KORG DVP-1

via this auction

Specs:
"1. Modes Vocoder, Internal wave, Harmonize, Pitch shift
2. Range Vocoder and internal wave modes: 5 octaves
Harmonize: 1 octave above and below key note
Pitch shift: - 1200 cents to + 1299 cents (1-cent steps)
3. Audio processing method Digital processing by DSP (x 2)
4. A/D, D/A quantization bits A/D 12-bit: D/A 16-bit (linear)
5. Polyphonic voices 5 (4 when chorus is ON)
6. Program capacity 64
7. Inputs 3P cannon (impedance: l0kohms), Standard phone jack (impedance 100kohms),
(Input level: -5OdB/-lOdB/+4dB)
8. Outputs Direct out (impedance 1kohm), Mix out (impedance: H:L 1kohm, L=10kohm;
output level H:L= 10:1), Phones out.

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Kurzweil K2000 Buchla Waveshaping

via Javier as a follow up to this post:

"Hearing those buchla comparison reminded me the waveshaping capabilities of my beloved K2000, so I tried to make a similar sound. I´m not saying it sounds identical or anything like that, but it could be more alike with some more time for fine-tuning. (envs are faster as it plays higher, etc). I did it listening to '259_Timbre_Sweep.mp3', but I think it sounds more like '261e_Timbre_Sweep.mp3'." Links in the previous post.



Click here for the audio in WAV format.

Memorymoon and Mesiah Synthesizers

"Memorymoon is inspired by the classic synthesizers. The sound is powerful. It has 6 voicecards with 3 oscillators, noise oscillator, amp and 2 filters. Settings above 5V in the mixer introduces overdrive.

Features include: 6 voice unison. Osc sync. Many envelope curves. Graphic envelopes. Arpeggiator and trancegate. Hold function. LFO, Voice-LFO, and Delay-time can be synced to host clock or to tapped tempo. You can tap tempo with a sustainpedal or with a button.

There is "voice-card drift" settings for tune, amp, filter cutoff and pulse width. So each voice-card can sound slightly different. It is also possible to play soundfonts and drum-loops in wav-format. This is intended for live performance."

"The main focus in the design of Messiah was low CPU. The audio part of the synth engine has only modules by Chris Kerry hand coded in Microsoft assembly language for low CPU (the effect section has modules by other developers).

The design is inspired by Prophet5, but instead of saw, tri and pulse oscillators it has 3 innovative oscillators: Morph oscillator with 4 waveforms, unison oscillator with 7 voices (and you can put this oscillator into 5 voice unison for 35 voices), and flexi oscillator that consist of 2 seperate waves that can perform PWM, ring mod. and phase distortion with very low CPU."

click here for more info including downloads. I haven't tried them so I have no idea what they sound like. There is a Sound link on the left of the site that takes you to some samples of each.

Gem Equinox Sounds Part 1

YouTube via loonytunes1234.
"Some sounds from the extraordinary and little known General Music Equinox, fabulous synth."

Spectralis Crying Oscilators

YouTube via DayflightTrok. "A short havy Spectralis ride."

tranzducer - Richard Lainhart and the Buchla 200e Live

via Richard Lainhart:
"Friends: for those in the New York area, I'll be playing a live set at Tranzducer Friday, November 30, at 8PM. I'll be performing with my Buchla/Continuum system and showing some of my films as well, including the premieres of "One Year" and "Lux". Admission is $5. Thanks - I hope to see you there."

click here for the official site on event.

"This month, we have an excellent lineup featuring Richard Lainhart (performing with incredible rig of old analog electronic gear), Rui Pereira, and Syadu Oosepfri. Be aware - tranzducer will be taking a little hiatus following this next show… all the more reason to make it down for tranzducer.011!

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker-a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. Since childhood, he’s been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds that are as beautiful as he can make them. “Lainhart crafts sounds in a tonal, musical fashion- sustained tones, drones, melodic fragments-and electronically manipulates them into beautiful tapestries of sound” (Waterfront Week). [His] “music reflects the spirit of possibility that once defined electronicmusic, bringing with it a sense of past, present and future that transcends time, technology and cultural assumptions. The spell-binding music seemed to evoke feelings that can’t quite be named, and suggest music I might rather imagine for myself in silence than trust most composers to compose” (The Village Voice). “He’s evolveda singular vision as a composer, performer and engineer of darkly seductive minimalism” (Peter Marsh, BBC)."

Bios on Rui Pereira and Syadu Afppmeefppthu Oosepfris after the hop.