KORG Lambda ES-50

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"This Korg Lambda ES-50 was made in 1979. All of the keys can sound at once which means it is fully polyphonic.

Here is a link to the owner's manual: On Carbon111

Here is a neat links to more information: On Carbon111

ALTAIR-231

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" ALTAIR-231 is a monophonic 3'osc synth, it has 4-oct keyboard (F-C) with velocity sensitivity assign to vibrato effect. Sound control is performed with round knobs and switchers. For live performance there is a wheel which provides pitch shift (called glissando). Synthesizer is based on 3 VCO (any can work as the modulator), 1 VCF (lowpass 24dB/oct) with ADSR, 1 VCA, 3 LFO, noise generator (white/pink), portamento. Consist of 5 main sections - MODULATION, OSC'S, MIXER, FILTER and AMP (called Contour)."

You can find samples at the auciton and at ruskeys.net

MOD section:
- portamento on/off, rate;
- mod mixer knob: balance between modulated by OSC3 and noise, depth amount;
- vibrato on/off, octave shift to 1/2
- pitch wheel (glissando)
OSCILLATORS section:
- osc 1,2,3 registers - 2", 4", 8", 16", 32", LF
- osc 1,2,3 waveshape select - triangle, saw, square, pulse, sine
- osc frequency - freq 1..3, freq 2, freq 3 -linked to keyboard pitch on/off
- modulation on/off switch
MIXER:
- osc 1,2,3 on/off, level
- ext input level, on/off
- noise generator level, on/off
- noise mode switch: white/pink
FILTER:
- mod on/off
- cutoff, resonance, brightness
- attack, decay, sustain
- keytrack on/off
AMPLIFIER:
- attack, decay, sustain
- key hold memory on/off
Next - global section: main volume, phones volume, phones out (5din), A-440Hz tone on/off, power.
Connection 1/4 jacks: input, output, pedal input (5din), ground.
Power supply: 220V/50Hz, fuze 0,125A

Crumar Spirit

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"This is a beautiful example of the very rare and coveted Crumar Spirit monosynth designed in part by Bob Moog. This is one of around 250 made in Italy in 1983."

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ARP Quadra

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Synthesizer-Welt on Frankfurt Musikmesse

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If I am reading this right, synthesizer-magazin will be showing vintage synths at this year's Musikmesse. Should definitely be interesting.

Knox Bronson's Pop Down The Years

The second Valentine's Day post this year.

This one is an image of a bee on a Serge Modular from the album cover of Knox Bronson's new album Pop Down the Years. You can find it on Amazon (mp3s available).
"it will be everywhere, including itunes, within the week. Pop Down The Years is VERY electronic and very much fun, with old- school song writing, pretty good singing (if i do say so myself - the girls seem to like me!) and full, rich electronic/ orchestral instrumentation, vintage and new. You can hear whole songs at sunpopblue. My NEW site, devoted solely to my music, is www.knoxbronson.com."

Update via Knox in the comments: "the cd is available on Amazon and all the other sites this week, but won't hit iTunes until next week. But that's okay, 'cuz Amazon doesn't use DRM."

An Insider's Guide to Casio CZ Synthesizers

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by Andrew Schlesinger

$484.46 on Amazon

:)

If anyone knows more about this book, feel free to comment.

Happy Valentine's Day via Cynthia - Synthacon Filter

via Cynthia

"Howdy Matrix!
We're shipping Synthacons again.... (now our new improved Mark III design). Image Attached for your marvelous website!!

Happy Valentine's Day!
Cynthia"

BTW, I am not planning on a specific Valentine's Day post this year (I don't think I had one last), so... Have a Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Imagine if your honey gave you one of these, a Steiner Parker Synthacon Filter. :)

The Chemical Brothers Modular - Update

See this post and scroll to the bottom for an update via Mike Brown of Livewire.

Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman at the Radiophonic 08 Festival

via Dana Countryman:

"Just a quick note to mention the upcoming lecture and concert by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman at the Radiophonic 08 Festival in Gateshead, England. It all happens on March 1st, 2008. More info here and here"

Be sure to check out these previous posts on Dana Countryman and Jean Jacques Perrey.

During their previous shows (where I actually took this shot myself) Dana played his MOTM/Dotcom modular and Jean Jacques Perrey played his favorite istrument, the Ondioline which is similar in concept to the Ondes Martenot and Tannerin.