Oberheim Upgrade for the Minimoog?

via old socks and new toys:

"I bought mine for about $300 from Hirsch Gardner at Daddy's Junky Music (MAIL ORDER!) around 1990. If I remember correctly he was selling it for a friend, he was told something about how it had had some sort of Tom Oberheim upgrade, whatever that might have been has been lost in my memory banks."

Anyone know more about this upgrade?

SIEL DK600

images via this auction

I almost put this one up on Matrixsynth-b due to the average images, but I thought the details were worth posting here.

"via the SIEL website:
The updated version of the Opera 6. Design improvements, a smarter and more restrained slik-screen job Improved program select buttons. Velocity sensitivity now programmable. Improved MIDI, including channel select and MIDI splits. VCA and VCF control voltage input sockets, curiously on 5-pin DIN. Re-badget as the Kiwi and also by Sequential Circuits as Velocity 6

Chips
3 SSM2020 VCA
6 SSM2024
6 SSM2044 VCF
6 SSM2056 EG"

You can find the full specifications on the SIEL website.

Akai EWI 1000 & EWV 2000

images via this auction

EWI 1000 wind controller
EWV 2000 synth engine

"A wealth of information on EWIs can be found here."

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Elio

flickr by rutt

MOOG Rogue

Anyone know what the white box is?

Roland Jupiter-2 in Custom Case

flickr by janvanvolt (click for more)

"a Roland Jupiter 2 Synthesizer. which i recently acquired from a forum sale. I will do another frontpanel with Schaeffer and re-optimize some of the circuits sooner or later.

it's sounding awesome ! Sound samples soon. "

Vince on roland JP-4

flickr by Neil Vance (click for more)

full size

Vince Clarke
Roland Jupiter-4

Untitled

flickr by yousoundhollow

Cyclus 3 Sequencer

via the Techno section of NAMM Oddities 2008, the Spectral Audio Cyclus 3. You can find more info including specifications in this previous post.

"This gives you an updated control for vintage-style sequencing. One of the nice features is that each of the tracks can have a different length so your sequence mutates as the individual tracks loop at different points."

BTW, do check out the NAMM Oddities site for some of the bizarre items from this year's NAMM. I wouldn't call the Cyclus 3 odd, but only seeing it on the Oddities site so far is... kind of odd. Hmm...
via Dave.

Synthasonic Mystery Module Demos

Demos are up on the Synthasonic website.

Frontline x-2 aka DrumFire DF-2000

via this auction

via paleface in the comments of this audio post on the DrumFire: "The united kingdom version was known as the frontline x-2 same machine as the DF-2000."

Details from the auction:
"COOLEST MOST CAPABLE DRUM SYNTH EVER MADE + OLIVER LIEB'S SECRET WEAPON
THE ITEM IS THE BOTTOM UNIT IN RACK
Frontline X-2 also known as the Drumfire DF-2000
Adjustable pre set/Dual Channel Percussions Synthesizer
The Ultimate in Analogue drum synths
This thing smokes the Syndrums and just about all others as far as sound, functionality, adjust ability and can create many many more variations via its adjustments Basically a MOOG for drummers!
Each Channel has 2 adjustments which include
Manual trigger button
Sensitivity control
Oscillate decay1
Oscillator decay 2
Noise decay
Sweep
Pitch
Wave form shape
click on/off control
Noise filter
osc/noise balance
master volume
Audio On Off
Pre-set or manual switch
Each channel also has adjustable presets for these same controls there are 4 inputs for various footswitch functions allowing for on off control and shift between preset and manual settings for quick sound changes and 2 1/4" ins for triggers
Includes 2 standard 1/4" Acoustic triggers or use with any drum triggering device,
Outputs are standard 1/4" (2), top output sends ring or tip depending or your mixer setup
Each channel also has fully programable presets for these same controls"