"In book one, Manmachine finds a bunch of old electronic detritus and builds a synth. Echo wakes up and finds herself surrounded by music in the valley."
YouTube via KM65536. "my favorite synth." That's saying something considering his others.
Update via Dave Cornutt in the comments: "I've never figured out why Roland made not one but two versions of the 106 with built-in speakers, the 106S and the HS-60."
YouTube via KM65536 "Great strings sound! これは私の所有物ではありません。 YMOのコピーバンドで有名なあの方のお宅へ遊びに行った時のものです。 このストリングスサウンドは素晴らしすぎます。 ほ、欲しい。。" Googlish: " Great strings sound! This is my property. YMO is when I went to your house to play with him the copy of the famous band. This is too SUTORINGUSUSAUNDO greatness. Most want."
"Our recent order of CGS synth pcbs - master dividers, vcos, lfos, filters, vcas - in fact, pcbs for two complete synths!
Shown on a gutted and still gorgeous black and blue "KUDOS" brand mixer. She will serve as the housing for an insane controller one day, and her parts (oo-er) will grace the innards of the CGS build as well."