YouTube via bluelantern320. "This is why the synth is called toad, it can make amphibian sounds and croke." The following are some images and details via these auctions. You can find more at the auction.
"Introducing the next chapter in Underground Electronics: The Toad Monophonic Synthesizer. Made with the highest quality CNC PCB manufacturing, hand selected parts, and lexan front panel. Almost 90% of the controls have no wires, all onboard tight fit electronics-lightning fast very accurate response off the BOURNS high quality Pots.This project was created for my musical purposes and my higher requirements. It had to perform ILL! and be very unique. It came out so good, I am attempting to populate the world with toads! at a very resonable price level." via the forum.
YouTube via b3nsf. See this post for the previous videos. "I just got the sequencer 151 back from my tech, working great now with both channels, one controlling pitch, the other cutoff frequency... The Steiner Parker Synthacon sounds friggin awesome like usual... the sound!!!"
via Jason in the comments of this post on Jimmy and the Yamaha FX1. BTW, if you haven't seen that post yet, do it, it's a pretty cool bit of history. That said:
"Add another FX1 to the list of found. This one was purchased new to be, of all things, a church organ! My father was a Yamaha dealer at the time and he was offered the chance to "test" a new model of the Electone series. It was actually purchased in 1982 (yep, before it was released). The serial number on it was "XXX" and there was nothing on the organ indicating it was an FX1. I always thought it was kind of strange Yamaha would send something like this to such a small town to be tested. Anyway, the organ is now gone after being struck by lightning in 1989. It sat out in an alley exposed to the elements for 7 years before it was finally hauled off to the dump. I tried to stop that, but I was only 15 when it was drug off, so I didn't have a choice. I'll always remember that organ as being the "Star Trek" organ. The kids of the church would just sit at it and change the settings to make the sliders move on their own. Anyone else think it looked like a console out of Star Trek TNG? haha btw, here's a link to an MP3 file of a demonstration of the organ playing."
YouTube via analogueak "AUDIO PATH (hi hat and snare): drum mic, compressor, external input, audio divider, filter, wave shape r, waveform processor, reverberation, mixer, rec- DRUM TRIGGER PATH (bass drum sound): mounted to bass drum, envelope generator, oscillator, filter, amp, mixer, re c AUDIO AS TRIGGER PATH (bass line): external input gate out, clock divider, trigger sequencer, oscillator, filter, amp, mixer, re c random voltage is modulating various parameters. and a Juno on top."
images at this auction "The Polyvox is a duophonic analog synthesizer, with a 49-note (F-E) keyboard. It was made and sold in Russia (then USSR). It features two VCOs, a noise generator, one LFO, a filter (low-pass and bandpass), and two ADSR envelope generators. VCO1 can be cross-modulated by VCO2. Each ADSR can be switched to auto-trigger, each with independent rates.The sound is quite rich and somewhat harsh and aggressive. This is more of a space-synth. You can be sure that you will have never heard the sounds this one can produce. It sounds like these old Yamaha CS-30's, but then fat filters like in Moogs. Polyvox comes with a lockable hard shock resistant aluminum case covered with plastic, also there are two plastic compartments attached to the inside." see the seller's other items for more. sounds Panel translation in english
"Formanta mini soviet extremely rare guitar-like digital-analog poly synth!!!! It looks like moog liberation or similar... It was manufactured in same formanta polivoks factory, this model are from the latest formanta synths line as kvintet, maestro, formanta p-432, it has 32 very unique and powerfull preset sounds, 8 voices polyphony, unison mode, modulation control and other functions.
"These units are great for bizzare instrumentation, hacking/circuit bending, and kids. If you don't know how it works, basically you sing into the mic and it generates corresponding synthesized sounds- you can pick the sound. It also allows you to accompany a bunch of built in songs and rhythms. A total trip."
Update via Musicwise in the comments:
"I have one of these and the real value in the Breakaway is realtime Audio to MIDI. You have to power it up with the yellow button pressed and it will then output anything you sing into it as MIDI. You can bend or even switch octaves as you play. I use it to capture vocals as MIDI or to perform sax solos with Saxlab and for writing intricate bass lines. Fantastic box!"