MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, January 11, 2008

Roland JV-35 demo

YouTube via AttilaSVK.
"A short demo of my Roland JV-35 with the JV-GS1 expansion card. The intro music was also made with this synth. In my opinion, it's a great PCM synth."

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"1973 Moog "Minimoog" Model D synthesizer. Also included (and pictured) is the original, rare find, Moog "X-Y" joystick controller which can be assigned to any 2 of 'loudness', 'filter', or 'oscillator' at once. It is in the original wooden case -- also in excellent condition. The serial # is 4962"

TEISCO 60F

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"Teisco 60F Analog Synthesizer
Year 1980.

Specifications
Keyboard 32 Keys (F-C)
Type 1 VCO, 1 VCF, 1 VCA, 2 x EG, 2 x Voice.
VCO Range (Low, 64\\\', 32\\\', 16\\\', 8\\\', 4\\\'.), Delay Vibrato, Mode (EG, Bender, LFO), Tune, PW/PWM(EG. Manual. LFO/Triangular).
Mixer VCO (External in, saw, square), Noise.
LFO Frequency (0.1 Hz - 20 Hz),
Wave Shape(3 modes: periodically, varied continuously), S/H, Triangular, Square.
VCF Cut-Off (16HZ - 20 KHz), Resonance, KCV, LFO Mod, EG.
VCA Hold, EG.
EG Attack Time, Decay Time, Sustain Level, Release Time.
HPF Cut-Off (16Hz - 16 KHz).
Effect Controls Portamento, Pitch Bend (UP, Doen), Pitch Bend Sensitivity.
Input KCV In (1V / 1 oct), Gate In (On over 1V), External In.
Output Signal Out (High, Low), Headphone.
Indicator LED\\\'s Power, Signal Way.
Power cons. 7 W.
Dimensions 560 x 370 x 100 (WxDxH iin m/m).
Weight 8 Kg

More Info and Interested Links
- ( Info )
- ( Video and Demos )
- ( Harmoni Reviews )
- ( SonicState Reviews )"

Roland JX-3P

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Polyphony - 6 voices
Oscillators - 2 DCO's per voice
Memory - 32 preset, 32 user
Filter - Resonant Low pass
Effects - Chorus
Arpeg/Seq - Simple Sequencer
Keyboard - 61 keys
Control - MIDI
Date Produced - 1983

Thursday, January 10, 2008

NAMM: First Glance: Plan B Elf series.

via Peter Grenader of Plan B.

"We will be showing the first two offerings of our proposed "ELF" series modules at the Winter Namm in Anaheim. The Elf's are slated to be a series of 4HP wide modules designed to add functionality with minimal real estate penalty.

The first is a high-quality headphone preamp which uses the 5532 power amplifier. The Model 40 gives you options of mono output (input A into both L and R) or stereo (input A to L, input B to R) operation.

The Model 41 Wave Splicer is a unique circuit which merges waveshapes. It senses the zero-crossing of input A and and transitions to input B when a Splice command occurs, the timing of which may be set by either a pot or an external voltage control. The M40 is phase locked to the A input, meaning no matter how long it's duration, the output will return to input A only at the next zero-crossing. This allows the user to sculpt a number of unique phase-variable waveforms from a standard VCO (sine/tri, sine/saw, sine/square, tri/saw, tri/square and saw/square), the ratio of each parent waveform determined by the location of the splice. Imagine a waveform which is three-quarters saw and one quarter square which retains the ability to apply PWM to the last third and/or change the phase relationshio (the ratio) of the two in real time.

The upside of doing it as a module as opposed to just adding that functionality into the VCO to begin with is some of these sound more interesting than others and as an outboard it gives you the potential to morph from other sources, not just the parent VCO. You can morph form a sub-octave generator, or an external audio source, to noise, etc.

We'll be showing these ad the full Plan B line at the Analogue Haven booth this year's Namm at a new location in 2008 - this time UPSTAIRS FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE in meeting room 210-2. A closed environment which assures quiet demo'ing. We're looking forward to that, a lot!

Hope to see you there."

Henrik & Los Guys - What We Do In The Techno Studio

YouTube via henrikthedj.

Don't miss this video as well.

"Here We are... Cooking up the music in the studio... Got some acid boiling with a 202 bassline and all of the TR-cousins chopped in round pieces. Add some chords with a Mono/Poly and spice it up with some american ARP-synth... Serve loud as hell..."

Catching Rainbows and Void by Sonicbrat

Two tracks featuring only the Korg M3 by SoNiCbRaT
(click for more).

ROLAND TB 303 CIRCUIT BENDING

click here for samples via Bitcrusher Bending.

1997 Used Gear Pricelist

Take a trip down memory lane via Jared:

Some snips from the list:
Moog /Realistic MG-1 kbd $140 (6/28/95)
Moog 950 Modular $995 (10/4/95)
Moog CDX synth $250 (4/10/95)
Moog Liberation $350 (10/13/95)
Moog MG-1 $225 (1/25/97)
Moog Memorymoog Plus $1100 (2/20/96)
Moog Memorymoog kbd $1400 (1/19/97)
Moog Micromoog $8365 (1/19/97)
Moog Minimoog $950 (2/9/97)
Moog Minimoog w/MIDI $1000 (1/24/95)
Moog Opus 3 kbd $320 (1/27/97)
Moog Polymoog $850 (2/11/97)
Moog Prodigy $300 (1/18/96)
Moog Rogue $290 (1/22/97)
Moog Satellite $175 (1/18/97)
Moog Sonic Six $450 (1/29/97)
Moog Source $475 (2/3/97)
Moog Source w/MIDI $700 (4/11/95)
Moog Taurus 1 pedals $600 (5/26/94)
Moog Taurus II pedals $600 (6/23/95)

click here for the full list.