Cantos

flickr set by jeff pineau
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shots of the Cantos synth museum

prior posts here

Note the EMS Synthi 100

Update via pineau in the comments: "Pictures taken by Stephanie D'Entremont."

Birdland BoardWeevil

Birdland BoardWeevil from Umcorps on Vimeo.

"Short demo performance on the BoardWeevil from Bugbrand (bugbrand.co.uk). Live and unedited.
BoardWeevil is connected to a noise gate plus some slap-back echo but no other FX or processing is involved." "Think of it as a riff on the sound design for Hitchcock's 'The Birds'"

Folktek Arts Magnetic Sequencer

"This piece was a collaborative effort between Ben Houston and Arius Blaze. It has no sound generating capability whatsoever and was designed specifically to control external anything so long as it's patchable."

More info and images at the Folktek Arts blog.

Folktek on ebay (I also added a link under the More Stuff section on the right)

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP from Core77 on Vimeo.

via this Create Digital Music post on the upcoming Handmade Music NYC 7/16.
"The CrudBox is an original hardware step sequencer in a briefcase, which plugs into and sequences everything from cassette decks to power tools and turns them into musical patterns."

Geiger Counter Euro Prototype

via the Big City Music blog

"The WMD Geiger Counter eurorack module is under construction! (or destruction!) Look at all the CV inputs. Whew! This is a working prototype. Video soon!"

bigcitymusic.com

Update: vid here

QUASIMIDI Polymorph virtual analog synthesizer

via this auction

"Polyphony: 8 voices to 16 voices
Oscillators: 3 per voice with 128 waves (sine, saw, square, pwm, tri), 30 sampled waves, noise, external
Filter: 2 resonant 12dB high pass and 12/24dB lowpass
Effects: 2 per part: 2-band EQ, delay, dist., chorus, flanger
Sequencer: 16 step, 8 variations, 4 parts or instruments
Memory: 128 patches, 64 performances
Control: MIDI"

Novation Nova 2X 49-Key Virtual Analog Synthesizer

via this auction
"49-Key Keyboard version, with Velocity and Aftertouch
24 Voices
3 Oscillators per voice
2 LFOs
3 Envelopes: 1 ADSR for the amp, 2 DADSRs
Filters: Resonant Low-pass, Hi-pass, band-pass; 12, 18 and 24 dB/Oct slopes and overdrive.
Also includes effects / outboard processing such as Distortion, comb filtering, EQ, reverb, chorus, flange, phaser, delay, panning, 40-band vocoder.
It features roughly 53 knobs, 8 sliders, 135 switches, so you'll most probably have fun with it if you're a knob-tweaker!"

KORG MP-4 Mono Poly Analog Synthesizer

via this auction
"It has 4 Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO's). The possibilities with this synth are endless. It runs in Monophonic and Polyphonic modes. In poly mode, you can play up to 4 note chords simultaneously. The way the VCO's are controlled is by using the function buttons just above the keyboard. You can even play a chord and press the Chord Memory Button to play the entire chord, simply by pressing one note at a time. You can also use the Chord Memory along with the astounding Arpeggiator Function. The Arpeggiator is extremely versitile and can be controlled externally. The external control options are very huge. Take a look at the rear panel and you can see just how much control you can have with this thing."

SN 373449

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Emu Emulator II Demo - Part 2.

YouTube via JMPSynth. Part 1 here. Be sure to see all vids here.
"Part 2 demo of Emu Emulator II library sounds."

best service TITAN Sound-Show 11 Pads 1 "Analog Classics & Vintage Strings Synths"

YouTube via bestservicegmbh. I love the intro to these...
"This video shows 29 of the warmest analog pads & vintage strings synths available from the Best Service TITAN sound-library, the biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all time! 200 different Synthesizers"

best service TITAN Sound-Show 18 "Basses 3 Dance"

"This video shows 38 Dance-Basses from the Best Service TITAN sound-library, the biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all time! 200 different Synthesizers in one famous virtual plug-in."