Roland VP-330 VOCODER MK1

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"original and rare, vintage 1979 Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus Synthesizer. This synth is responsible for the legendary sound heard on so many classic records, from Phil Collins 'in the air tonight' , 'Mr blue sky' by ELO to New order 'blue monday' and many more, 'blade runner' soundtrack by Vangelis and of course Kraftwerk. The vocoder section, for me, is the best ever made. Then you have the greatest sounding analogue string synth ever, together with the incredible analogue human voice section. Add in the Roland stereo Chorus Ensemble section and you have one of the most beautiful sounding analogue synthesizers Roland ever built. It's crazy good...The vocoder also has an external input so you can feed anything into it such as a drum machine for example. Estimates vary about how many were of these were made. 1500-2000 seems the popular number quoted. Very rare Euro power 220/240 volt version. This is the MKI version."

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Roland TB 303 Bass Line Synthesizer Modded

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"This model has the Kenton 5 Socket Kit fitted giving you external control of CV, Gate, Filter, Slide and Accent."

Yamaha CS15

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YAMAHA PSR 6300 SYNTHESIZER POP-UP CONTROL PANEL

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"1980'S CLASSIC YAMAHA PSR 6300 SYNTHESIZER/KEYBOARD- STEEL CHASSIS, BUILT LIKE A TANK!! COMPLETELY ADJUSTABLE ANGLED POP-UP CONTROL PANEL. THIS AMAZING UNIT LISTED AT OVER $2500.00 in 1987"

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yr3wk46 mopho juno 6 improvisation

yr3wk46 mopho juno 6 improvisation from longcat on Vimeo.

"blue sky, clouds, mopho & juno 6 x

the mopho being a sequencer, the 1st sequence going to the 1st oscillator, going up in octaves, then down...

the 2nd sequence going to the 2nd oscillator going up in 5th's,

slightly different lengths between the 2 sequences,

i'm controlling the pitch of both oscillators or just changing one of them... swapping between the 2-pole and 4-pole filters, changing the clock (sometimes twice as fast) and of course the cutoff / resonance of the filter...

the juno 6 being just it's beautiful synthy self...

the music was recorded on friday 1st may, the sky footage was shot a week later on the 8th may, only an hour or so before my brand new baby niece charlotte was born..."
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the whole shebang.

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"i have serious, serious issues..."

Resonant Lowpass Gate Project PCBs Available

"This is a third cousin PCB that is a derivative of the famous Buchla 292c Lopass Gate. Don Buchla himself gave approval to this endeavor for us all to learn a bit more about analog synthesizer module design, and for this we owe him a debt of gratitude as a true scholar and gentleman. This is not the first, nor will it be the last Lopass Gate module to come out to the world. People have become transfixed on the magic of Vactrol's which are a combination of a resistor and LED in a light-tight package that seals out the light of the world yet somehow glows with an internal magic, that for the Synth_DIY crowd becomes hard to ignore."
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X0xb0x(distortionpedal) + dr505 mk2(kaosspadmini) - FAIRLIGHT

YouTube via TuneFRK
"If you have any new, vintage, homemade or circuit bent music gear or equipment and want to show it to the world, here is the place to go!
http://www.tunefreak.org/studio.html
You can also share your sounds, mods, pictures and videos. Simply send me an email with your sounds, pictures or links to Youtube videos and they will appear on our list. I will find out soon How you could send your stuff straight to the list, but for now, feel free to send it here gearlist@tunefreak.org or tunefreak@o2.pl
Thanks
TuneFreak"

Emulator II demonstration by Alan Wilder

YouTube via Turrican101
"Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode 1982-1995 Keyboarder) demonstrates the use of the Emulator II (French TV, around 1986)"
Note this was previously posted on January 17, 2006 here. click here for more Alan Wilder posts and here for more Depeche Mode posts.

Reason 4 Tutorial on Vocoder By The Beatmaking Housewife

YouTube via misslaidlaw
"A vocoder, is an analysis / synthesis system, mostly used for speech in which the input is passed through a multiband filter, each filter is passed through an envelope follower, the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated, and the decoder applies these (amplitude) control signals to corresponding filters in the (re)synthesizer.

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"Now that you have a basic idea of how control modulations are assigned using the Combinator rotaries and buttons, it should become apparent that completley new control configurations can be created. The four buttong controls on a Combinator are programmed in the same manner as the rotary controllers, but the modulations are fixed values assigned to either the on off state of the button."
Combinator Modulation Assignment on Reason 4