MATRIXSYNTH

Roland TB-303 Bass Line

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"Here's its story:
A friend of mine made commercials back in the early 80's. He bought this Bass Line new for some sound experiments, tried it once, and then off it went into his closet. 25 years later he sold it to me, and I never used it, not even once. It stayed in my clean, dry closet until now.

It has its original case, which is partly responsible for the unit's pristine condition. The manual is an original Roland Bass Line manual, but is not original to this unit. The power supply is New Old Stock (I found it in a small music store). All in all this is a rare occasion to buy an almost-new Bass Line with all the extras."

Polivoks Vintage Soviet Analog Synth

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"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."
Demos at the auction while it's up.

Analogue Solutions TBX-303 TransBass Xpress (tb-303 clone)

You might remember this video from this prior post.
It's currently up for auction via bigcitymusic.
You can find bigcitymusic's other auctions here.

Access Virus Desktop

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"This is the first version of the Access Virus."

So... can the latest Access Virus TI cover the original 100%?

Waldorf Micro Q

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1981 AES Journal Featuring E-Mu

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"rare 26+ year old ENTIRE issue of the great AES Journal, the leading audio engineering and recording studio magazine in the world.

Each issue, like this one, is filled with great articles and great ads in the area of sound, audio and sound recording.

This is a complete, entire issue, and in EXCELLENT condition.

This issue is particularly good for this article or articles:

1. "A Computer-Controlled Polyphonic Synthesizer" by E-mu Systems honcho David P. Rossum, who describes how his new keyboard works with an early computer from the time of it's inception in 1975 to the time of the correct computer and program being found in about 1980. Some very useful info for all E-mu folks!

2. "Digital Additive Synthesis for Computer Music" is by Brown University profs, and you'll enjoy that too...

Many other great articles and gear adverts in this complete issue!"

kraftwerk live 4-19-8

YouTube via 9knivesout. Anyone know what software they use?
"kraftwerk - man-machine
live @ myth - st paul 08"

BugCrushing BugBrand Update

via Tom Bugs:
"Hiya,
It is (finally) time to get back to BugCrushing - this time with two versions - in the shop now!
Plus:::: announcing a few shows and workshops:::::

*The re-emergence of the BugCrusher08, but now in stomp format* The BugCrusher08 is the daddy of the crusher-range with VoltageControlled Crushing and Filtering.
Quite a complex box with many areas of versatility, this new stomp version is basically the same as the desktop version released back in January - there are some sound examples online from this.

Released in a batch of 8 at £170 plus shipping (inc AC power pack, instructions and 3 year guarantee) (I will be releasing more in the next months too)

*The Micro enters production*
Following an initial short-run back in December, the BugCrusherMicro has been redesigned and improved for a regular production version.
This is the most compact crushing option with just one dial and measuring just 120 x 65 x 40mm!

Released in a batch of 12 at £70 plus shipping (inc battery, instruction sheet and 3 year guarantee) (There'll be a follow-up batch of these pretty soon)

*Weevils*
...all the Weevil08s are gone for now, but I'll be getting back to them shortly.
Still no moves on the AudioWeevil front (darn-it)

*Initial announcement of shows & workshops* The BugBrand Modular has been updating its wardrobe for some summertime shows....
There will be a one-off collaboration with drummer Roger Skerman in support of The Necks - 17th May at the Cube Cinema, Bristol And then a week in Berlin with two shows and a workshop building some new noisy on-board-synths (like souped up PostcardWeevils!) More details on such things in the next few weeks.
http://bugbrand.co.uk/pages/bugbrandhome.htm

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That's all for now - but, as I say, there should be a secondary round of both BugCrushers following shortly..
All best & cheers,
Tom"

Flame Clockwork Tips and Tricks

via Floppy on the AH list, posted here with permission:

"i got the clockwork for a while now and finally discovered its great features.
first i was disapointed because the manual doesnt mention all of its functions, and its not really selfexplaining. i mailed the guy who made it and he helped me with some advice that can now be read on his homepage
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i use the clockwork mainly for triggering percussive sounds as this machine takes me to completely new patterns! you might know the point where you feel like hacking the same old beat into your tr 6/7/8/9 over and over again wondering if theres still undiscovered patterns hiding under this 16 steps... the easy access to the 3 different rhythm scales (normal 4th, triplets and dotted) and the possibilty to combine them with each other makes it the perfect solution against boring drumloops.

im using an akai mpc as master clock and the clockwork is slave so i can record every drumloop seperately on the mpcs audio input. this method is as tight as possible i think. for some loops i just record single instruments on the combined output of the clockwork, when maximum flexibilty is needed, but its also possible to play a full drumset (4 tracks) and record it at once.

when using analog drumbrains that accept velocity sensitive trigger inputs, i realized that there is another hidden shuffle possibility :
the lenghts of the gate signal can be either very short -that results in a single hit. with a bit of lenght -that gives something like a flame / roll medium lenghts - that results in the exact middle of a beat (offbeat bass) longest gate - this grooves in the opposite of nr. 2 it seems that the end of the gate signal does trigger again but with only half of the velocity. when i discovered this i was already dancing to my clockworks beats, its definately the most groovy unit i ever played with. im thinking of getting a second clockwork soon."

If you have any tips, feel free to comment.