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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Oberheim OB-Mx

via this auction
Not the best shot, but you don't see these often. What is interesting is I think the Oberheim OB-Mx wins hands down for the absolute worst ebay shots ever. It actually is a bit fascinating when you think about it.

BTW, another interesting bit of synth info is if you click here you will see every single synth shot I've gathered since I started the blog. You can do a search for any synth and you will see how many images come up for each. This will give you an idea of how often particular synths come up on ebay, or rather the ones I've posted. I *think* the Juno-106 reigns king but I could be wrong. If you find a synth I've grabbed more shots of off the bay feel free to post it in the comments.

Inside the Alesis Micron

via Lyle:

"Here’s a few pictures inside my Alesis Micron. I was expecting to find a Freescale(Motorola) or Analog Sharc DSP but instead I found these low cost Wavefront AL3101CG DSP’s. Nine of them to be exact, 8 for voices and 1 for effects. These are interfaced to a Freescale Coldfire micro via some FPGA glue logic. Some time ago Alesis sold semiconductors for audio and ADAT applications but has since ceased doing that. I wonder if Wavefront is the same group? Perhaps someone else knows."

If anyone knows more, feel free to comment.

Analog Synthesizers; Understanding, Performing, Buying

"In this book, the technical explanation of the nature of analog sound creation is followed by the story of its birth and its subsequent development by various designers, manufacturers and performers. The individual components of analog sound creation are then examined in detail, with step by step examples of sound creation techniques. Then the modern imitative analog instruments are examined, again with detailed instructions for programming and using them, and the book is completed with appendices listing the major instrument lines available, hints on values and purchasing, other sources of information, and a discography of readily available recordings which give good examples of analog sound synthesis. The CD which accompanies the book gives many examples of analog sound creation basics as well as more advanced techniques, and of the abilities of the individual instruments associated with classical and with imitative analog sound synthesis."

click here for more. via brian c.

The System - You Are In My System

YouTube via criticalbeat. Black PPG Waveterm.
"Great music video from The System for the hit single "You Are In My System". Released in 1983 (Atlantic Records)."

Update via Qwave in the comments:
"I wonder what is under the PPG waveterm A.
And where is the PPG wave 2.2 that would play the sounds created by the waveterm?
And this keyboard with the QWERTY keyboard inside is very unique. And it isn't a PPG keyboard for sure.
So we see a PPG waveterm here that loads a "Transiant File" (="sample" in PPG terms) on page 3.0.

The PPG EVU (= Extension Voice Unit) is based on the PPG wave 2.3 and does not work with a Waveterm A sample at all. The PPG wave 2.3 doesn't load them the right way too.
I had a PPG system ith a wave 2.2 and a 2.3.
And an upgraded waveterm A that ran waveterm B software. Bt the reformat disk for booting in waveterm A mode was bad, so I could not use my wave 2.2 together with the waveterm for sampling. But of cause for the very special Event Generator (not realtime sequencer!) of the PPG waveterm B.

keep on turning these knobs

Till "Qwave" Kopper"

Oscillator Cross Modulation "Chatter Box"

YouTube via isotopeofme. via poictesme on the Matrixsynth Forum.
"Cross modulating the 2 oscillators in my doepfer modular synth and running the resulting "chatter" through the VC phase shifter."