"The Unique DBE was an American released version of Crumar's revered Bit 01 rack. Everything is exactly the same. 6 voice polyphonic analog synthesizer, stereo outs. So warm and such crazy, crisp fast envelopes. It is way warmer and phatter, and easier to program then let's say a Matrix 6. Lots of MIDI treats can affect many parameters with velocity and aftertouch like LFO, Pulse wave modulations and of course envelopes. Anything you see on the little matrix that has an extra frame around it is velocity sensitive. S/N is 0017. There can't be more than a few hundred of these. Much more rare than the Bit 01. These were available like for a few months back in the 80s."
"Features: 32-note monophonic preset synthesizer had 6 push-button presets ("voice", "synthe 1", "synthe 2", "brass", "string", and "wood" as in woodwind) and a five octave switch. If you pressed two buttons at the same time, those two presets would mix. There were controls for attack and "sustain" (decay/release), VCF, modulation depth, modulation speed, and portamento speed (as well as a lever to switch the portamento on or "momentary")"
"MINIMAX ASB
One may not consider a synthesizer with three Oscillators and noise, a mixer as well as a filter followed by amplifiers and two envelopes, as being spectacular in sound. But we are not just talking about any kind of synthesizer but about "the" synthesizer that started it all. MINIMAX ASB is a perfect emulation of one of the most popular synthesizers ever. Its ease of use and easy to learn sound technique made this instrument a role model for many other synthesizers. Its sound is famous. The oscillators and filters are extremely powerful and the envelopes extremely quick.
Many soft and hardware companies have tried to copy its features but have shattered by doing so. Its hardware duplicate had different built-in components taking away from its original sounding character. Most software programs emulated only parts of the hardware such as the filter. Significant elements like Oscillators and envelopes were for the most part forgotten. MINIMAX ASB is different from anything available before. MINIMAX ASB not only emulates parts of the instrument. We consider it as being "the" synthesizer. Today, where most hardware components are difficult to get and software reached the limits, MINIMAX ASB has managed to go beyond.
Within the MINIMAX, we have remodelled all significant sound elements after the original's circuitry. In addition, a steady cross-check with the Original was made and now offers even identical knob positions as within the original. No reproduction has yet been that precise. Measurements and adjustments were only a part of the work. Beforehand there was another problem to tackle. The original analog model produces frequencies which when copied or emulated would produce aliasing. Those who are familiar with aliasing know how awful it sounds. The MINIMAX ASB's sound generation is based on newly developed algorithms that are free of any aliasing. The MINIMAX ASB handles even the most complex Modulations, filter FM or Oscillator-Modulation. Moreover, the nice thing about this, the MINIMAX will always sound like the original. Thus MINIMAX ASB tops today's digital synthesis technique."
"This is a Quasimidi Rave-O-lution 309 electronic synthesizer, that functions like a synth and drum box and more. It's German made, solid quality, and a great dance machine for any synth application."
YouTube via flameampere "simple drumloop triggering with the Midi-Phrase-Sequencer Flame "Six-In-A-Row" thru the MPC2000 - using the drum page (different phrases/pulses)"
via A: "A "speaking piano" reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009, concept & realization by Austrian composer, Peter Ablinger, courtesy of Viennese art collective Wien Modern. Unfortunately the clip is only available in German (3sat is a German language culture TV channel broadcasted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland). I haven't found any English reference to that amazing project on the web yet, but I think the clip is interesting for speakers and non-speakers of German alike, though!
Best regards,
A"
Update via Alessandro in the comments:
"Youtube version since the one from the offical page takes forever to load."
Speaking Piano
YouTube via TheMcphearson
"A 'speaking piano' reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009. Unfortunately it's all in German, but what the piano says is all English, and it's really neat to watch." Update: "UPDATE: Astera on hackaday wrote a rough translation: Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The ambitious goal was to make this message audible with musical means, without falling back to a simple setting. Berno Polzer: I think, its partially understandable, partially not. And it plays well with the limits of our construction abilities. That is, we hear sounds that obviously arent normal Music, but neither they are language, and one could say that sometimes, a bridging happens. Personally, I think you can understand individual words even without knowing the text, and the Eureka moment happens when you see the text, and suddenly, the language is there. Yet another bridge: Miro Markus, an elementary school student from Berlin, narrated the text for the performance: Youth as a hope for the older generation. The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger transferred the frequency spectrom of the childs voice to his computer controlled mechanical piano. Peter Ablinger: I break down this phonography, meaning a recording of something the voice, in this case -, in individual pixels, one can say. And if I have the possibility of a rendering in a fairly high resolution (and that I only get with a mechanical piano), then I in fact restore some kind of continuity. Therefore, with a little practice, or help or subtitling, we actually can hear a human voice in a piano sound."
YouTube via VironCybernet "A new short song made to sound like the one that inspired me to try to make synthesizers as a child. Played first as a "musical number", one that sounds like music when sent through a serial port directly to a speaker, then as synthesized using the same functions as the 1985 Speech Synthesizer Original Disk. This is a new variant technique that may enable everyone to write new songs that can have the same "energy" as their favorite songs. 30 years after the inspiration, this has been done."
YouTube via mysteritmo "Not being able to escape the Nokia Tune whereever I go, I decided to have a bit of fun with it instead of getting annoyed. How would it sound as a poppy rumba tune? I used the Korg KR-55 drum machine for rhythm and the keyboard sounds comes from the Casio Tonebank CT-395. Everything is played live since the Casio doesn't have any type of sync. I bought the keyboard at a garage sale for only 6 Euro and I think it actually has some very cool sounds! Play in HQ and enjoy! :-)"
"The Unique DBE was an American released version of Crumar's revered Bit 01 rack. Everything is exactly the same. 6 voice polyphonic analog synthesizer, stereo outs. So warm and such crazy, crisp fast envelopes. It is way warmer and phatter, and easier to program then let's say a Matrix 6. Lots of MIDI treats can affect many parameters with velocity and aftertouch like LFO, Pulse wave modulations and of course envelopes. Anything you see on the little matrix that has an extra frame around it is velocity sensitive. S/N is 0017. There can't be more than a few hundred of these. Much more rare than the Bit 01. These were available like for a few months back in the 80s."
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