Oberheim OBX and PPG Wave 2.2

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Rockstar Games Announces Beaterator for iPhone™ and iPod® touch

"New York, NY – August 31, 2009 - Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce that Rockstar Games and Timbaland present Beaterator will be coming to the iPhone™ and iPod® touch this fall. Developed by Rockstar Leeds, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Beaterator is a portable music-making application that allows people of all musical backgrounds and ability to create world-class beats and songs.

"The simple, pick-up-and-play nature of Beaterator lends itself so well to the Apple platforms," said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. "We are happy to deliver an application that allows for such unprecedented sharing and ease-of-use."

Previously announced for the PlayStation®Portable system, Beaterator features thousands of loops and sounds made by both Timbaland and Rockstar, and puts the power to make professional-level music at your fingertips in a format that's portable, accessible and fun.

For more information, log onto www.rockstargames.com/beaterator.

About Take-Two Interactive Software
Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™ and Nintendo DS™. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, which publishes its titles under 2K Games, 2K Sports and 2K Play. Take-Two also distributes software, hardware and accessories in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.

iPhone, iPod and iTunes are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc.

“PlayStation”, the “PS” Family logo and “PSP” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The PlayStation Network logo is a service mark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

All trademarks and copyrights contained herein are the property of their respective holders."

2009-08-30 Stage Left microKORG

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four tiny drum machines

four tiny drum machines from ALH84001 on Vimeo.

"Four tiny drum machines with analog sound, IR wireless network, and photocell control.

One drum is running through a DigiTech Synth Wah pedal. The other three are mixed dry. The mix is playing through a guitar amp.

eric archer 2009"

three tiny drum machines from ALH84001 on Vimeo.

Filtermodulation Novation Xiosynth

YouTube via nanotrax. sent my way via fischek.

Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer/Drum Machine

via this auction

"I was a founding member of an obscure synth pop band formed in Chicago in 1981 called 'Scarlet Architect,' which lasted only about a year and a half. During that time, we put out a single vinyl EP with four songs, which is fairly hard to find. Only 1,000 copies of the EP were ever pressed. This machine was used on that EP. We also recorded a handful of unreleased songs using this machine. In synth pop music circles, two of the songs from the EP are sort of well known - "Rose Grey" and "Falls Away." "Rose Grey" made it to No. 1 on a dance club music chart for a short stay in 1982. We also used this machine when we played live, and triggered a Roland TB-303 and a Sequential Circuits Pro-1 from it."

Crumar T3 Synthesizer Organ Bass and Strings

YouTube via zebrajohnny02. via zeroc001 in the comments


via this auction

Larger images at the auction and mirrored here for the archives.

Wersi Bass Synthesizer

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Teisco Polyphonic Synthesizer SX-400

via this auction

Googlish translation:
"According to the online museum:
The synthesizer is 4 voice polyphony playable, and still there is a dual mono mode. The somewhat rauschig but good sounding ensemble effect ... The CV-gate facilities and a dynamic pressure of the keyboard make the rare vintage darling even today the device makes it a good sound and fun ... The predecessor of the Kawai Teisco device was once produced direct product competitors in the market segment Roland Jupiter 4th .. The list price was at that time ca.4400-DM."

Crumar Bit One analog vintage synth with Alternate Panel

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via this auction

"One Italian synth from 1984/85 with midi and touch response, 2 dco's / 1 vcf / 1 vca / 2 eg's / 2 lfo's per voice, 6 note polyphonic, oscillator stack mode (2 voice poly), detune slider, designed by the guy who designed the Elka Synthex and it has a warm, silky sound. The notes are output to left and right so you get this quirky stereo effect with oscillators being routed to either left or right! However the white noise option does not work and sometimes there is a very faint white noise coming through on some notes. While it is warming up for the first 30 minutes there are the occasional faint crackly noises, the synth was serviced by a technician who replaced the capacitors in the power supply, but it could probably do with some more caps replacing on the sound board but not really necessary. I don't think the guy specialised in analog synths. Having said this, once it warms up, the synth is mostly free of any popping noises (check out the demo) and is very stable due to it's digitally controlled oscillators. All the buttons and controls work fine (apart from the white noise)."

Note the parameter mapping compared to this one. Anyone know more about this alternate panel?

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