Roland System 700 Sells for $50,100.99

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"Roland System 700 Modular Analog Synthesizer

The System 700 was aimed at high end studios in Japan and the USA. The System 700 was first produced in 1976 and was Roland's flagship product well into the 80's. The system sold in the US for $14,500 in 1979 and was a major player in the modular synth market. Truly a professional instrument, even by todays standards, only around 40 of these great systems were ever built. These extremely rare units still demand large money whenever one appears on the market. Here's your chance to own a piece of musical history.

This particular System 700 was originally owned by Tom Beckman, founder of Roland USA. It was used for 4 years and has been in storage ever since. It appears like it is brand new. The Tolex is near perfect, the panels are beautiful and it shows very little, if any, signs of wear. Storage has taken a bit of a toll on some switches, faders and selectors. Everything can be repaired with cleaning and maintenence. We've had it set up and played it a few times and it is truly amazing. We are selling it "as is". We are a factory authorized Roland Service Center and can do any repairs that may be needed, but that would be a different deal worked out after the sale. This is a large system in 7 enclosures and in all, is 220 pounds."

Andreas Tilliander - Bonnadub

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"Tilliander dubbing in the studio. All hardware."
"Andreas Tilliander Repeatle Acidub Acid Dub TB-303 RE-201 RE-301 RE-501 MC-202 Korg MS-20 MS-50 Machinedrum"

Jamming in the studio

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"Just some jamming with parts of the Repeatle Studio"
"Machinedrum UW Monomachine TB-303 DSI Evolver Boss RE-20 Novation Nova Andreas Tilliander Acid Dub"

Comparing x0xb0x, TB-303 and ABL 2.10

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"I'm playing around with x0xb0x, TB-303 and Audiorealism ABL 2.10. I really love all three machines and wanted to compare them."

Comparing Acidlab Bassline, TB-303 and ABL

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"I'm comparing the sound of the original TB-303 to Acidlab Bassline MK1 and Audiorealism ABL2. For some reason the 808 is lagging. I probably managed to move the 808 in Ableton after I'd recorded it. Live with it or skip to the end of the clip. Sorry for this."

Comparing TB-303 with Futureretro Revolution

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Future Retro Revolution

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Gakken Analog Synthesizer SX-150

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You might remember the SX-150 from this post. It's a recent "free" analog DIY synthesizer kit from Gakken magazine in Japan.

Studio Electronics SE-1

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"The Studio Electronics SE-1 is a programmable monophonic synth faithful to the heritage of the original Minimoog. The synth captures the essence of the orignal Minimoog, while adding programmability, oscillator sync, dual-slope multi-mode filters, two extra envelopes, and three additional LFOs. If you've always dreamed of a hot-rodded MIDI Minimoog.

The SE-1's front panel is laid out in the familiar Minimoog style. On first glance the SE-1's front panel appears similiar to the Minimoog, however, while controls for the three oscillators now reside in the middle of the panel, the mixer section is no longer seperate and the envelope and filter controls have been shuffled around. The voice architecture of the SE-1 consists of three multi-waveform oscillators with sync and ring modulation, a mixer with noise source, dual-slope multi-mode filter, VCA, four envelopes, and three LFOs. Each oscillator is capable of generating one or all of the waveforms simultaneously which opens up some new sonic possiblities, while tuning range has been expanded to five octaves. The SE-1 has two filters: one the classic Moog 24db/oct filter, and the other a low-pass/band-pass switchable 12db/oct SEM type filter. With the addition of three LFOs, oscillator 3 no longer needs to be dedicated to LFO, allowing even thicker basses. The three LFOs have a multitude of waveforms including sample and hold, and the modulation destinations are also quite generous. Envelopes 1 and 2 are hardwired to VCF and VCA respectively, but envelopes 3 and 4 can be routed to several destinations. It is also worth noting the envelopes 1 and 3 can be inverted and envelope response can be linear or exponential. MIDI capabilites include aftertouch, pitchbend, modulation, and several continous controllers routable to almost any destination, in addition to velocity response."

1975 Minimoog

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"This unit has 6 holes on the back indicating it has the more desirable "famous" osc board which supposedly produces fatter richer sounds than then newer model osc boards. I pulled the back metal cover off and the date of manufacter is written inside on the back of the front panel as 1/29/75."