random melody

YouTube via feelda303
"me playing random melody around a quick loop i made... it reminds me of some dance track and i swear i have it in my mp3 library, i just don't know how is it called..."

goofy techno loop

"messing around very COOL preset i found in NI REAKTOR L3's library (i also used additional vengeance electro essentials drum loop)..."

GForce Minimonster to Moog Voyager Comparison on Signal to Noise

"Out of nothing more then curiosity i wanted to know the fundamental differences between the Moog Voyager & Minimonsta. The filter is obvious so i didn’t even want to have that in the equation. I wanted to look at the raw building blocks, the oscillator waveforms. Here are my results."

via Signal to Noise where you'll find the mp3s and visuals.

MOOG MINIMOOG

via this auction

"The Minimoog Model D is a cornerstone of classic synthesizer culture. This wood panel monophonic synth is considered by many to be the ultimate Moog synthesizer. The Minimoog features: a simple and accessible control layout, an aesthetically simple and attractive construction, and a 44-note keyboard. A Minimoog console also displays a Controller section, 3 Oscillator Banks, Mixer section, Modifiers, and Output control. There are two control wheels next to the keyboard, one controls the pitch, and the other controls modulation.

The Moog Minimoog control panel can be broken up into 3 sections:
* The sound generator (the VCO or voltage-controlled oscillator)
* The filter (the VCF or voltage-controlled filter)
* The amplifier (the VCA or voltage-controlled amplifier)

To produce a sound, the musician would first choose a sound shape to be generated from the VCO. The VCO provides a choice of several switchable waveforms:
* Triangle Wave
* Sawtooth Wave
* Sawtooth/Triangle
* Square Wave
* Two different width pulse waves

The sound then travels from the VCO to the VCF (voltage-controlled filter) where it can be shaped and sculpted, adding resonance. Next, the sound travels to the voltage-controlled amplifer (VCA). The term "amplifier" can be a bit misleading to novices who might be thinking of a stereo amplifier with a single volume knob. In a modern synthesizer, a VCA actually has 4 separate volume knobs that control four different stages of the sound. For example, the first knob - the Attack volume - controls how loud a sound is when the key is first pressed: does it start immediately like a string being plucked? Or does it fade in gradually like a violin being softly bowed?

Part of the appeal of this instrument over the early modular Moogs was the fact that the Minimoog required no patch cables. While this imposed the signal flow limitation outlined above (VCO -> VCF -> VCA), there are ways to tweak the sound. For example, in reality, the Minimoog has six sound sources. Five of these sound sources pass to a mixer with independent level controls:

* Three voltage-controlled oscillators (see above)
* A noise generator
* An external line input

The Minimoog Model D is a cornerstone of classic synthesizer culture. This wood panel monophonic synth is considered by many to be the ultimate Moog synthesizer. The Minimoog features; a simple and accessible control layout, an aesthetically simple and attractive construction, a 44-note keyboard"

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OSP DD-505 DRUM SYNTH HEAD

via this auction

Roland CR78 drum machine

via this auction

"Also check out the programmer available form CHD ELEKTROSERVIS" previously posted here

MS-50 #2

flickr set by Lars Daniel
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SEIKO DS Series Synthesizer and Sequencer

YouTube via matrixsynth.

This is the SEIKO in the previous auction post. The video is from that auction with the following note: "apologies for the bad audio quality, due to my bad camera"
Comments disabled here to keep them in the prior post.

MOOG MODULAR synthesizer freq. counter & tone selector

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"Moog modular frequency counter and tone selector module where you can select 12 different tunes (notes) in order to tune very well any synthesizer oscillators. It was mounted on a very big custom Moog modular system in the past. The dimensions are standard like Moog Modular modules. very good to put on a Synthesizers.com or COTK modulars.. It working on 220 / 240 volts with built in power supply."
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SEIKO DS series lot

YouTube via matrixsynth

This video is from the auction with the following note: "apologies for the bad audio quality, due to my bad camera"


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"SEIKO DS additive synthesizer & sequencer collection. Why have musicians like Ruediger Lorenz, Till Kopper, J.M. Jarre and Aphex Twin owned one, then? The answer is that the 310 has an additive synthesis facility that they found sufficiently interesting to ignore the home keyboard elements, also a very nice chorus and many more...

This lot includes:
Keyboard DS-202 with PSU (110 volts)
Digital synthesizer DS-310
Digital sequencer DS-320
Digital memory cassette: DMC2 (new) and DMC1 unspeakable demo ROM cartridge
Midi interface module S1B-1"

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EMS Pitch to Voltage Converter Module

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"The primary function of this device is to convert an audio input into a DC voltage whose value is proportional to the pitch of that input signal. If this voltage is then applied to the control input of an oscillator, the oscillator can be tuned to follow the input in unison or at any other interval desired. In situations where musicians are already using synthesisers to treat the sound of instruments, voice or tape, the addition of the Pitch-to-Voltage Converter introduces a range of possibilities hitherto unexplored, since it enables direct control of the synthesiser's parameters from a live musical input. Others ALL IMPORTANT details on this website"be sure to see the sellers other items.

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