Mondo Modular Episode 2

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"Yet another bold journey into an audio world where many have tread before and even fewer haven't... (wait a minute -- this doesn't make any sense?!?)

Anyway, just me again getting some cool sounds out of my truly amazing modular sound generating system.

Please bear with me and in an episode or two I'll post some video of electronic music giants like Herb Deutsch, Gershon Kingsley and Bernie Kraus that I've shot over the years.

See the rewards that lie ahead for making it throught these punishing viewings? Who sez I'm not a pussycat sweetheart?"

Roland RS-09

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"Comes with the original 70's retro vintage japanese case"

Siel DK70

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Roland D-50

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"The keyboard is somewhat too spongy in my opinion, but the after touch sensitivity can be controlled by a lever, which is rather nice. There is also a Chase Play function, which can be used to create some very intriguing delay effects. 'All in all, the D-50 is a very warm-sounding synth - Finding it particularly usable for lush and thick synthetic backwashes and complex woodwind sounds.'"

ARP Little Brother

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"The Little Brother is an expansion module for any ARP-System monophonic or polyphonic synthesizer. It has its own built-in VCO oscillator and LFO. Use it to double up your monophonic Axxe or really fatten up the sound of an Odyssey, 2500 or 2600! The LFO can add really new and cool modulation effects to these synths too! Best of all several Little Brothers can be stacked to greatly expand or enhance the functionality of your ARP synths in a modular-like fashion! Though the Little Brother uses ARP's System Interface for interfacing with these other synths, it has CV, gate and trigger inputs and an LFO out as well." Note the waveforms: BRASS, HOLLOW, REED, FUZZ

Elevation Theodore Dubois Sound from Rogers MX 200

YouTube via jopachelbel
"compsed by Theodore Dubois
from Dix Pieces de Orgue
I have played it on my Roland Juno Alpha 2 Vintage Analog Synthesizer
and Rogers Organ Sound Expansion MX -200"

Peterson Engineering Foot Stomper Bass

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Update: if anyone knows more about this one, feel free to comment.

Update: Peter Forrest of VEMIA and the A-Z Books to the rescue:
"NY then IL firm who made at least three things like this, late 70s early 80s. Second was 24-note version; third ('Bottom Line') had controls you could mount at hand height (on the case-lid put upright with little stabilisers, or on a keyboard)."

Olivier Grall's Waldorf Wave Page

"One of the best sounding and powerful synth ever made . Designed and made by ex. PPG team , this synth is a hybrid of digital oscillators including analogue filters, coming directly from the heritage of the PPG Wave with the wavetables.

Released in 1994 around 300 have been made. This one is from July 1995.

The solution to get a DX7 + a VS + a JP8 + a PPG in the same box !
Warning ! Wall of sound !"

click here for the page with samples and more images.

ASM-2 on Synth.nl

"Today I also started working on the ASM-2. Most of the components arrived. You can see the stack of components in the picture on the left. Yes this will actually become a synthesizer :) Sorting out all the components was the first task and checking if I had everything. I knew some resistors were missing since they were in backorder. But probably I will find out along the way what I'm really missing. I put all the components in plastic bags, so I can't loose them. But from the amount of resistors only I know that this will be a lot of work to build."

Click here for the full post on Synth.nl. BTW, check out the root of the blog for more that has gone up recently including a post on the Cwejman S1 MkII.

DELEC Analog Bass Pedal Synthesizer

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"The brandname is Delec bs1. Either this is a diy kit or a 'one of' prototype of some sort. There isn't any on the net about this synth, so it's very rare. It sounds enormous! The sound you get from it is seriously full and fat. There are pitch controls for both oscillator 1 and 2 so they can be detuned from each other for an even more fatter sound.

The synthesizer in short:
two oscillators: choose from triangle or squarewave - octave low/high switch per oscillator, volume control for osc 2 ad/adsr
vcf - lowpass, bandpass and highpass! These 3 filters can be used at the same time and each have their own level control!

However this synth has a defect: the ad/adsr isn't working. Also when you turn the resonance to zero, the volume drops. Everything else on this synthesizer works fine, but the adsr doesn't work so the sound goes on hold (keeps playing) until you step on another key/pedal (because it has no volume/filter control by the adsr). 20kg"

If you know more about this one, feel free to comment. via Danny.

Update via Peter Forrest: "There's a current firm called Delec which makes high-end digital intercoms. It seems to have been founded by a guy called Donald Dilocker - who started off doing live sound and founding a recording studio in the late 70s. Perhaps this was an early project of his."