MATRIXSYNTH

1976 Yamaha CS50

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Inside a Yamaha CS50

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"some of my favorite things: 7 different waveforms on the oscillators, FM on the oscillators, 7 octaves on the osc., PWM on 4 types of the waveforms, run the filters in parallel or series, the BEST filters i have ever worked with :LPF is 24/36 dB with LP and BP and the MMF is 12/24/36dB with LP/HP/BP, both self oscillate. They both easily overdrive with high inputs."

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PAIA 4700

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"Portable Paia 4700 modular with custom guts - mixer, noise source, 2XAR generators, LFO built around a xr2206 monolithic function generator, and VCF using CEM 3379."

Update: Be sure to check out The Voice of Saturn: Drone In Bb.

Inside the V-Synth, part 3

You can find the full post on Sequence 15

"In this installment of Inside the V-Synth, we'll look at the V's onboard effects. The effects are divided into three blocks: multi-effects (abbreviated MFX on the panel and in the manual), chorus (which also includes some fixed delays), and reverb. Each of these blocks has a dedicated on-off button on the panel. All effects parameters are stored as part of the patch. One effect can be selected for each block at a given time."

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Maroon 5 (feat Rihanna) - If I Never See Your Face Again

YouTube via polydor. Open Labs Neko and Analog Systems Modular, which I'm guessing was provided by Big City Music according to this post.
"The new single from Maroon 5 (featuring Rihanna) released in the UK on 30th June."

Circuit Bent Speak & Spell

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acidmix

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Roland TB-303 and TR-909

Harvestman featured in PC World

"600 Bucks: So Much Money, So Little Time
We ask PC World staffers how they might spend their $600 economic stimulus payment.

Harvestman Modular Synthesizer
Peter Tripodi, Facilities Coordinator: Assuming I can get it together to find all my paperwork (I'm a tax "extentialist"), I'll probably spend the payment on a few modules for my ever growing modular synthesizer. Maybe a bitcrusher to offset its mostly analog composition. There's a voltage controlled 8-bit delay/looper by Harvestman that I've had my eyes on. Lo-fi? Sub-fi, baby!! Or I could get a Flame Midi-Talking-Synth; having dual Speakjets is like having two Stephen Hawkings doing bird calls and barnyard impressions at the twist of a joystick. That's what I call economically stimulating."

link to article on PC World. via Mr. Array. You might recognize the image from here.
Official Harvestman website