Drumfire DF-2000

images via this auction
"DrumFire Oscillator DF-2000 Adjustable pre set/ Dual Channel? Percussions Synthesizer The Ultimate in Analogue drum synths as well as a serious low end bass machine!
This thing smokes the Synares, 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)
Each channel also has fully programable presets for these same controls "
Click the Drumfire label below for previous posts and be sure to check out the comments for what people think of it. Of course if you have experience with one, feel free to comment here.

VEMIA Update

Via Peter Forrest:

"Interesting analogue items in the VEMIA auction at www.spheremusic.com ending on this coming Saturday, (April 12) include ARP 2500, Quadra, Solina String Synthesizer, Cavagnolo Exagone XM64, CRB Computer Band 2000, Crumar Spirit s/n 15, Digisound, Doepfer, Elka Synthex, EML 200, EMS Logik, Dequencer, Hi Fli, Vocoder 2000, ETI 4600, Fender Rhodes Mk I, Freeman String Symphonizer, unopened Hohner Clavinet, Drumfire DF500, Kenton Mono/Poly kit, Korg MS02, 03, 50, SQ-10, Trident II, VC-10; two Mellotrons (one in Canada), MasterRoom reverbs, R A Moog CEMS (the biggest custom design he ever did?), Minimoogs, Minitmoog, Sonic Six, three touchplates; Matrix 12 with Xpander front panel, OB8, OBMx, OSCar, Syntars, PPG 1002, 350, 360, 390; Rhodes Chroma, Prophet T8, Simmons SDSVs, Spectral Audio ProTones, Steiner Masters Touch, SE MIDIMini and MIDIMoog, Stramp Synchanger II, dotcom stuff, early Curetronic, Adrian Utley's theremin, Estradin 230, GTC Telefonfilter, Rozzbox, Persephone Deluxe, Springer 1950s time-stretcher, Vox Jaguar (Canada), Yamaha SS30, and plenty more besides. Some prices are high, some very high; some are surprisingly low. You can always just look at any pictures that interest you."

Pictured here is the MOOG Touchplate prototype #1.
"A fantastic and rare example of Bob Moog's own handiwork, serial number TP010. When he started back into music manufacture in the early eighties, the model 300 touch-plate was one of his first products. This is the prototype Synton received from Bob for demonstration purposes. It is extremely Moog-like in its characteristics. It has its own inbuilt power transformer, and the outputs are available on six 1/4in jack sockets, with good ol' Moog knobs for controlling sensitivity. It has a Synton sticker on the back, saying 'TOUCH PLATE USA'. Synton and Moog had a close relationship in the 80s, with reciprocal import/export. It is untested. This is from the collection amassed by Felix Visser, former head of Synton. All items were destined for a national technology museum project, many years in the planning, but finally cancelled by politicians and planners. They have mostly been stored unused for a number of years. Any items marked untested are untested, are sold as is, and could be fine or could need work. Wherever we have more information (good or bad news) it is mentioned in the item description."

Tenori-on World Launch Tour - Berlin

You can find more images of the event and a report on wire to the ear.


"Last night I went to the infamous and quite beautiful nightclub Berghain in Berlin to see the Tenori-on launch event. I’ve been highly interested in the Tenori-on since I first read about it almost a year ago. The device is right up my alley: a sequencer, white leds, and it’s made for live performance. So what did I think when I finally got to see it in person?"

Straightliner

"Straightliner is a straight-lined subtractive synthesizer in a modern guise. You will find the well known building blocks of classic analog synthesizers (4 oscillators, a filter, 2 envelope generators) patched together in the traditional way. Now you are probably tempted to say ’boring!’ - however, the building blocks themselves offer much more flexibility than commonly seen in subtractive (aka ’virtual analog’) synthesizers: Instead of relying on a set of fixed waveforms, Straightliner’s oscillators support loading of arbitrary (single cycle) audio files which may be even stereo. In turn, the whole signal path is laid out in stereo. The standard ADSR model for envelopes is replaced by a flexible modulation generator which allows to define an arbitrary number of breakpoints. The heart of subtractive synthesizers is the filter, of course. In this department, Straightliner offers a multimode filter with various modes, among them the usual suspects like lowpass, highpass, bandpass, but also bell- and shelving types and some ’morphable’ types and (remark: at this early beta-stage, only the ’Moogish Lowpass’ type is implemented)."

You can find it as a free download in the Products section of Robin Schmidt's Music Engineering Tools. Be sure to check out the rest as well. via Sonic State.

TB-303 shuffle

YouTube via accenter. "DIN SYNC Shuffle stand alone Taktgenerator"

Oakley Lag Frac rack

"This is a very simple but useful little module to introduce 'smoothness' to CVs and waveforms. It doesn't just have the usual 'lag time' pot that some simple lag generators possess, but two separate UP and DOWN controls. The UP control will affect the speed at which the output of the module rises. The DOWN control affects the speed at which it falls."

More info on krisp1.

MFB, Frequensteiner Modular Demo by Velvet Acid Christ

Velvet Acid Christ: MFB osc, into Frequensteiner filter, modular demo. You can find it right under this image on the VAC website. You'll also find an interview and some news there as well.

Serge with Red Plexiglass Front Panel

via modularsynth.net. via Magnus. You might recognize this from this post.

Moog The Rogue: demo Part I

YouTube via PimpMyFahrrad

Documenting the Making of a MIDIBox SID

YouTube via natemccoy
"I made a simple and quick video documenting the making of my MIDIBox SID.

The MIDIBox SID is a DIY synthesizer, based off of the MOS Technology SID sound chip, the 8-bit sound source of the commodore 64 computer.

Although the synthesizer i made is not 100% finished it is still operational and i thought since there isn't a lot of information on youtube about the MIDIBox SID makeup, this might help some people to understand the process a little bit better.

For more information on the MIDIBox SID please check these sites.

http://www.ucapps.de/
http://forum.midibox.org/
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/
http://www.avishowtech.com/mbhp/buy.html

Here are some demo videos of the MIDIBox SID.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lnTh4e0b-ic
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrgdErwTJ5o

Here are the websites for my personal electronic music projects.

Rivel -
http://www.rivel.org
Mr. Spastic -
http://mrspastic.googlepages.com"