Braintec Transistorbass 3 Analog Synthesizer

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"This machine emulates everyone's favorite silver box admirably, but it also has many other facilities to way beyond into new sonic territories. It adds a second sawtooth oscillator that can be synced to VCO 1 and modulated by the envelope or LFO. That's right, I said LFO because this unit has two of them that are hidden but accessed easily via program change. Just when you think you have the ultimate funky bassline, you can modulate the filter by a midi syced LFO to take it to the next level. Also featured are a filter input and CV/Gate out to control your older, MIDI-less equipment. All in all, a unique sounding machine that will be at home in any acid studio setup. Supposedly, there were only 400 units made so it might be considered to be quite collectible if you care about those things."

POLIVOKS

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Note how the sections are raised and separated.

"Synth has two oscillators with triangle, saw, and three square waveforms with different pulse width. You can choose from 32’ to 2’ register for every oscillator. You can modulate the first oscillator by the second(crossmodulation). There is portamento effect for the first oscillator. Polivoks is duo-phonic synth it means that you can play two notes at the same time. The heart of the Polivoks is originally designed 24db dualmode filter, well known by its killer resonanse, unique and unstable sound. Filter can be switched in LP or BP mode. There is LFO with 4 waveforms, it can modulate every VCO, VCF and VCA. Mixer section consists of 1osc, 2osc, noise and external signal.There are dedicated ADSR envelopes for VCF and VCA.Envelopes has autotrigger mode when signal repeats from attack to decay stage." samples at the auction.

JKJ CV-5 midi to CV converter

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"This is a great midi to control voltage converter that allows analog synthesizers and other modular devices to be controlled by a midi keyboard, rhythm machine, or sequencer. The CV-5 works with any monphonic analog synthesizers which conform to the 1 Volt per octave or Hertz per Volt scale standards. The unit can be confiigured by sending midi program changes. The CV-6 goes well beyond most simple midi-to-CV converters and offers high quality portamento, fast note response times, filter and auxiliary outputs, dynamic audio processing (volume and pan control), syncable LFO, vibrato, sample and hold, pitch bend, and DIN sync output. With five CV outs, it can actually be used to control two synthesizers."

Update: be sure to check out the comments of this post for more info.

Lainhart Updates and New Music Available

via the forum:
"Friends: some more news on what's turning out to be an active new year.

First, there's a new interview with me on Tokafi here concerning my "White Night" release, a work from 1974 for Moog modular synthesizer.

Next, "White Night" is now available in the US from CDeMUSIC. (In Europe, it's available directly from the Ex Ovo site, along with a sample of the work.)

Finally, I've added two albums to my MusicZeit store. "The Beautiful Blue Sky" is a release of all-new electronic landscapes for Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer and the Haken Continuum, all performed and recorded in real time. "These Last Days" is a re-issue of my first CD from 1987, available again after 20 years. You can hear samples of all the tracks for any album by clicking on the album's image on the main page to go to the CD's own page. I hope you enjoy them.

Thanks!

_________________
Richard Lainhart
http://www.otownmedia.com
http://www.downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart
http://www.airglowmusic.com"

Rick Wakeman - Sir Lancelot and The Black Knight ( Wembley)

YouTube via Patrickillian. via Analog Suicide.
"Sir Lancelot adnThe Black Knight performed during King Arthur on ice at wembley in 1975"
Rick Wakeman on Ice.

New toys arrived.

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Circuit Bent 2004

BENT 2004 from Derek Sajbel on Vimeo.
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Fender Rhodes Chroma Polaris II with Service Manual

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via Robert.

Yamaha CS5

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909 and Amiga Sounds in Flash and Flash Based Music Production

CDM has a great post up on Flash based music environments. Do check it out.

One of my favorite Flash based sites is Audio Playground's Virtual Drum Machine page, a virtual collection of vintage drum machines you can play online. If you haven't done so already, just check it out. It's pretty amazing.

On a separate note, CDM is having a bit of a fund raiser at the moment. The site unlike Matrixsynth runs on it's own servers and thus costs a bit of money to keep running. When I had Matrixsynth on my own servers I ran into this problem quickly so I know the pain. CDM is a great resource and Peter Kirn, the man behind the site, is a great guy. Peter and CDM has supported Matrixsynth in a number of ways including promoting me on CDM, and helping me privately via email when I ran into site issues myself. Peter had enough faith in Matrixsynth to ask me to write CDM's This Week in Synths column which was kind of a best of for the week on Matrixsynth. I unfortunately had to give it up due to the problem many of us have - lack of time. For me it's the blog, day job and family. We run the sites on our own free time and for the love of the subject matter. That said, if you want to help me out, help CDM out. Peter is also author of the book Real World Digital Audio, you can find my review of it here. If you donate the list price of the book to CDM, Peter will send you a copy. I couldn't think of a better time to get the book.

So, why aren't I asking for support? Matrixsynth runs on Blogger which is 100% free. How can you support Matrixsynth? Don't be afraid of the ads. If want to buy something through Amazon, Ebay or other, click on the links to them here and buy. It doesn't cost you more and it helps support the site. You also don't have to buy what's listed here. If you buy anything at one of the sponsored sites, after clicking through here, a small amount goes to Matixsynth. Treat yourself to something and know you are supporting the site while doing so.