Yamaha SK15

images via this auction

"Steel front panel, (real wood sides!) [hmm...*], with 22 dedicated sliders. There are 7 for the organ: 5 of these act as drawbars...16', 8', 5 1/3', 4', and 2'. The other two in this section are for organ percussion and a highpass filter to extend the range of organ sounds made with the drawbars. Good Hammond B3 sims to be had here in this section. The Strings section has 2 sliders, sipmly to mix and match amounts of sawtooth wave in 16' and 8' flavours. The organ section's brilliance control i.e. the highpass filter can be used to trim off the high frequencies of the strings' sawtooth waveforms. The Polysynth section has indie sliders for: volume, wave footage (mix variable from 16' to 8'), EG depth and 4 slider for the ADSR. This section also has a slider for filter resonance amount. The other remaining sliders are used for LFO control... depth, delay, and rate.

As I mentioned, there are three sections in the Symphonic esnsemble: Organ, Strings and Polysynth. Each is 7 note polyphonic and all 3 can be used together with no loss of polyphony. And here's where you can make some really magical sounds, because you can make composite sounds using all three sections that really sound wonderful! It's a bit like having a subtractive synth with simple additive features. Layering in some high organ harmonics over a subtractive analog filter sweep (this section is simple but sounds like a beefed up CS01 with 7 note poly), adding in some silky strings and running it thru the BEAUTIFUL swirly, sparkly shiny ensemble effect give me shivers cuz it sounds amazing! And the BIG bonus: every parameter has real-time control so you can get really expressive. There's also a foot volume pedal input that makes this thing really responsive even though the keys are not veleocity sensitive. Ahhh... magic!

Ther were 4 different SK series keyboards built: SK15, SK20, SK30 and SK50D. The 15 is the baby brother."

*I'm guessing it's veneer wood.

Novation Supernova II Polyphonic Synthesizer

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WERSI AP-6 Analoger Bass Synthesizer

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Details in Googlish:
"Bass Guitar + waveforms (saw-tooth / Rectangle / RMS) tested. With the help of the pitch slider tunable! Glide controller! Status see pictures.

Device may by prior appointment with me to be tested!!

Equipment:
Wah-wah by hand
Wah-Wah-rotor and automatic
Wah-Wah-Up/Down
Generator with Hawaii - Effect
Auto-Glide Up / Down
Vibrato normal - fast / slow
Delay vibrato
Decay (Ausschwingzeit, Sustain), Delay (settling) - adjustable
Hand controls for Wah-Wah and Glide
Keyboard with 3 octaves, 5 foot sinus locations in 16 ', 8', 4 ', 2', 1 '
2 layers with a foot square and sawtooth 16 ', 8'
13 connector for freestanding pedal keys available
(As of Wersi and Dr. Boehm offered)."

Simmons SDS 400 Electronic Drums and Pads

via this auction

"Kick Pad, and 3 trigger pads"

Yamaha CS80

via this auction. BIN of $14,999.99

via Heath

The Elgam Snoopy

Elgam Snoopy - Organ Electric Piano via this auction
"Apparently appearing on an Ennio Morricone record, there's very little information about this on the net. Its got three sounds (Piano, Harpsicord and Spinet) which can be mixed together via the faders on the left of the keyboard along with the master volume. It looks really cool, a nice silvery blue and is in working condition. There's a little bit of paint damage which someone has tried to "conceal" with a sharpie marker and there's a couple of dinks / abrasions on the legs but nothing too bad. It has a keyboard cover which fits over the keys and then the legs can be folded onto the under side to make it more portable." via Rich 1

Yamaha VL7

via this auction

Listed as new in box.

via Joel.

Synton Syrinx Update

I updated this post with more images of the grey/metallic Synton Syrinx sent in via the owner, Uro. He also has never seen one this color before. Comments disabled here to keep them all in the prior post.

Eurorack Modular Planner

via Andy on the Plan B list:

"Just wanted to let you all know that I've nearly completed my Euro Rack modular planner which includes the Plan B modules.

http://mega.modularplanner.co.uk/

The above is unfinished as I'm awaiting images from the various manufacturers. The Plan B is kind of complete but still requires images and data for Model 16 & 18 when available.

Doepfer is pretty much all there as is Analogue Solutions, I have images for Cwejman and Analogue Systems which is going in over the next few days.

Feedback is welcome.
Andy"

Do check this out. The total cost in Yen, Euros, GBP and USD for the modular you configure is given.
Analog Solutions gets my vote for best images.

Workspace and Environment: The Volt per Octaves

"My favorite piece of hardware of all time is my Minimoog Model D, but right now it's in the shop for a general tune up. So, I've been having lotsa fun with my friend Ross Harris's Baldwin Synthasound! It's a super rare old analog monosynth that Baldwin made for a short time at the height of Minimoog and Arp 2600 popularity (1971).
Sounds like Dick Hyman in a box and I love it. It has one of the craziest glide times ever, like 20 seconds... But it actually says "Slide"..."

You can find the full interview on trash_audio.

The synth on the top left is the Baldwin Synthasound pictured here.