Japan-New Romantics Top 10

YouTube via chrisf242. Some synth spotting.

Moog Minimoog Model E - The Welsh Minimoog

images via this auction
"this is a very rare (5-8 units worldwide) Minimoog Modell E / 204E from Alex Winter, an english manufactor from the mid 90ies. the synth is in perfect optical and technical condition, small scratches in the woodpanel. technical its near mint incl. absolute stable oscillators, pwm for osc 1 and 2 and a factory midi interface (in/out/thru). it works with the most important midi cotroller (vcf, vca, modulation, pitch, last note priority).

The sound is also identical to the Mini Moog D model bearing in mind that the Minimoogs from the 70s in different phases always nuances also different. This is the debate whether Oscillator Board 1 (often unstable and serviceanfällig) or oscillator Board 2 (stable OSC) is better."

via Ed

Do a search for Welsh Minimoog on the top left of the site for prior posts.

MPC FORUMS STUDIO TOURS

YouTube via beatmaker2000
"PRODUCE BY BEATMAKER2000 TOOLS LOGIC 8"

Axe from Marz

via Deviant Synth

"Kurzweil Expressionmate ribbon controller, Digitar, DJMC, day-glo legos."

And a Guitar from Marz here.

Recombinant Media Labs

flickr by BeerNotBombs
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"My tour through RML in SF, CA."

Serge and SMS modular. I also see a Roland Jupiter-8 and Jupiter-6. Not sure what the synth on the top left is.

MESSE08: The Little Synth With An Evil Sound

Waldorf Blofeld. See the write-up on Sonic State.

MESSE08: VST and VSTi Without A Computer

See the write-up on Sonic State.

Nord Lead Anniversary Model presentation

YouTube via gearjunkies
"The moment Clavia unveiled the Limited Edition of their Nord Lead at this years MusikMesse. More at Gearjunkies.com."

And an image and some info via the Clavia Website:

"Nord Lead Anniversary Model Ltd. EditionClavia was founded 25 years ago by Hans Nordelius. The very first products from us involved digital audio and samples, technologies that were well and truly in its infancy back in 1983. 13 years ago Clavia launched the original Nord Lead, which made a huge impact on the synthesizer community and the MI business. The Nord Lead was Clavia's first keyboard instrument and was to lead the way, not only for the MI business but also for the direction of Clavia as a company. In order to commemorate this first 25th anniversary for Clavia, we have created the Nord Lead Anniversary Model Limited Edition. This collectible synthesizer will be made in a limited production run that will consist of only 299 units. The Nord Lead Anniversary Model Ltd. Edition shares the specifications with the Nord Lead 2x and will be easily recognizable with a custom printed front panel and the inverted color scheme on the keyboard. The individually numbered units will be delivered with a certificate of authenticity, signed by Mr Nordelius."

Update on the Acxel Resynthesizer

I just made a major update to this Acxel Resynthesizer post. You will find details on the use of this unique synthesizer as well as comparisons to the Kyma system. At the very end of the post you will find some links to more info as well as a soundtrack done mostly with the Acxel.

Micro Performance Poly-MIDI.1 Update

via Florian:

"I am the one who bought the Poly-MIDI from Bernd. It took me some time to understand how it works, but in fact it works fine - though I did not get everything. There are five sequences, which must be recorded from an external MIDI-keyboard in realtime. I did not find any relation between the keyboard like coloured buttons and the input modes. There is no mode, where you could use the buttons as a keyboard.

For playback there is a non-quantized mode and several quantized modes from 16th to quarter notes and several triplet modes.

Very nice feature is a chord trigger mode: it records a chord from MIDI and in playmode this chord will be transposed by the incoming MIDI notes.

There is also a step input mode, but each step it seems to be related to an step of the clock. The internal clock is 192 ppm - so this step mode is not very useful - at least until I understand it better. ;-)

Regarding clock: It reads and provides MIDI Clock, DIN-Sync and a TTL-clock (which is identically with the clock signal from the DIN-Sync), and finally it outputs a 16th trigger. Unfortunately it does not sync to an external 16th trigger. Syncing as slave works only for MIDI and DIN-Sync, the external Clock in seems to require TTL-level and so it is very "timid" (sorry, funny word, but describes it the best).

Finally I am still seeking for more information. There is no brand description neither at the outside nor inside the case. This one has the serial number "00387", but I cannot tell whether there really were that much of these sequencers. My suspicion is, it means: third made in 1987...

Anyone who has more info please get in touch with me via http://fa.utfs.org/contact, or of course, post it at matrixsynth.

All the best, Florian Anwander"