MATRIXSYNTH

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"for my birthday, i bought something older than me."

cauchy riemann's MFOS modular

via cauchy riemann on electro-music.com

"2vcos, s&h, dual ar, lp filter, 2 lfos, dual vca, noise generator, 16 step sequencer"

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"This MINI is the 908 th ever made, from Williamsville factory (sn. T1908E), it has three RA Moog boards inside, except the oscillator one, that is probably a late upgrade, marked Moog Music. The osc board is not the latest one, it sports just 7 trimpots and is the OLD, fat, soughtafter board. It sounds HUGE; its tuning is VERY stable (as a very good Mini can be); no mods, no buffer board; its woodwork is wonderful, no nicks, smooth as silk, nice wood grain; the panels are plastic over metal (not like the latest ones that are all vynil... ); white milky, smooth wheels; everything works like it should; all knobs are there; keyboard works as it should; according to what a renowned Moog guru said to me from USA :-) , its ser. number with T and E means that it was made for european market: in fact, it is 220 V AC supplied ( no 110 V switch)...FAQ: The Mini nameplate is made of metal, covered by plastic like the other panels are, Moog Music Minimoog (it is from the transition era from Musonics to Moog Music Williamsville). Look at the original a white tag inside its "brain" where the date of release is reported: november 1972. Yes, the filter board is marked RA Moog, as the others but the OSC one. Recommended for european Moog fans (shipping is about € 100, probably less...)"

midibox sid

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"midibox sid synthesizer in old vintage commodore c64 computer case read about this DIY project here in the work blog: www.subatomicglue.com/sidl0g/

for information about making your own midibox go here: www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html

This is a MidiboxSID, a synthesizer that has sound chips from the original commodore 64 personal computer from the 1980's. These sound chips are called the SID 6582

The synth is built into an original Commodore 64 computer case. And features 8 SID chips (4 stereo pairs - one SID per ear x 4 voices). Each SID chip has 3 oscillators and a variety of other features like filters, ADSR, ringmod, sync. The synth has a very flexible (and simple to use) modulation matrix, LFO, bassline sequencers, and stores patches in presets.

midibox of the week"

Circuit bending tr505 roland

YouTube via BitCrusherTv. "Roland tr505 circuit bend!"

Roland tb303 mods Circuit bending

YouTube via BitCrusherTv
"Modification de la célèbre Roland TB 303!! Aciiid!!!!!!!!!"

Roland CompuRhythm CR-78 Demo

YouTube via mrduckbutt
"Brief demo of some of the features on the Roland CR-78 drum machine. Mostly playing around with rhythm selections (incl. A/B variations), voice cancel, tempo, automatic fills, automatic fading, etc. And of course no CR-78 demo would be complete without playing "In the Air Tonight" and some Hall & Oates ("Kiss On My List"). The former uses the "Disco-2" rhythm with snare cancelled out; the latter uses "Rock-1" with automatic fill 7.

On a side note, I haven't found any permutation of rhythms to give the exact bass drum pattern on "In the Air Tonight". Maybe this is how Phil did it as well, but I just used the programming interface to make a custom rhythm with this bass drum pattern. Then I load this at the same time as "Disco-2" (these are the two yellow buttons pressed in the demo)."