MATRIXSYNTH

Roland MC-202

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Roland SH-101 with Original Box

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MAESTRO VINTAGE GUITAR SYNTH EFFECT PEDAL

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"vintage Maestro Universal Synthesizer System USS-1 manufactured by Oberheim Electronics, serial # 1938. This vintage multi-effect features several of the best Oberheim Maestro effects in one amazing unit. The USS-1 features several effect sections, including: Waveform (fuzz, texture), Filter (envelope), Sample/Hold (the famous random arpeggiator), Phase, Envelope (an additional envelope filter), and Subharmonic."

inside a Maestro

My wife wants a house, but I just want to ROCK.

My wife wants a house, but I just want to ROCK. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

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The sound of decline in a post-Juno society. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

The eBay took my Juno away. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

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Moog Custom Engineering modules

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"A very nice little Moog modular set-up, with modules made recently, but 'proper Moog' - made by Moog CE aka Modusonics, the company Mike Bucki, the Moog Custom Engineering person in the old days, set up after Moog's original demise - so you can be sure they are the genuine article. The system includes (with US prices from a year or two ago): Moog 904a classic low-pass VCF ($835) Moog 921 improved stability full-featured VCO ($1285) Moog 902 VCA ($485) Moog 911 Envelope Generator ($425) Moog C3PO discrete Mixer ($435) Moog 995 Attenuators ($220) Without allowing for any price rise, that is $3685. With shipping and import duty/tax to England, that is $4765, which is £2883 at today's rate. They are in a case, fully working with power supply. The case is a home made job so a little heath robinson! It has a QS1 dot com power supply enough to power around 40 modules. The power supply is about a year old and rock solid reliable. The case will fit any 5u Moog-size modules in top row and 3u eurorack size below. There is a custom Moog Custom Engineering harness that runs directly off the dot com power supply, with edge connectors for up to 9 Moog modules. Dot com or any other plus and minus 15V modules will run directly off of the power supply so the Moog can mix with dot com, Oakley, MOTM etc.. (VEMIA note: We certainly expect this to be bid on in the main auction at this price - with the additional dotcom power supply, and Moog CE harness with nine connectors, it's worth well over £3000 even ignoring the useful case, and you by-pass the scarily long Modusonics waiting list. But if not, all modules will be re-entered in second chance sunday as individual lots.)"

Digilog 2x16 Analog Sequencer Din Sync

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"Digilog AS 2x16 Step analog sequencer. CV 1 CV 2 Gate invert Trig in Run in Din Sync in. With PSU. Built from the same Pro shop which built the EMS Vocoder 4000. Very good"

EMS VOCODER 4000

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"EMS VOCODER 4000 ! I CALLED IT 4000 BECAUSE IT HAD MORE FEATURES THEN THE 3000 AND LESS FEATURES THEN THE 5000. Each of the 16 Filters has Level, Offset, CV out, CV-in. Very good condition. Fully working. The Vocoder 2000 was built by EMS. The 2HE Filter Section was built by a Pro Shop in Leibzig(Germany) in 2007. Very good Condition. Fully working."

EMS Synthi 100

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"This wonderful Synthi 100, serial number 3007, was owned originally by Bruno Spoerri. He used it for many years. At some stage he decided he wanted some more variety within this massive system, and changed some of the modules' circuitry to more modern analogue designs. Because of the modular nature of the beast (all the important boards are contained within card-frames for simple removal and work) it would be easy to return these to their original design - all parts are still readily available. But our feeling is that it would be good to start with Bruno's mods intact, and only change back if they proved not to the new owner's taste. After Bruno Spoerri, it was owned by Felix Visser of Synton, who bought it as one of the centrepieces of a massive museum planned for the Netherlands. The museum never happened, and so he sold it 18 months ago. The new owner unfortunately has hit a crisis which involved having to move out of his current studio and home, and so the Synthi is up for sale again. It is in very good cosmetic condition. There is some marking where damage to one of the massive pin matrices has been repaired - see the photo - and a small amount of corrosion on the right of the serial number panel. Apart from that, and the odd scuffs and marks consistent with its 35 years' life, it is really lovely. The 'producer desk' in between the two matrices has been repaired and re-tolexed and looks great. All knobs are beautiful; all keys on the twin-manual keyboard are excellent. It needs some servicing: Output channel 1: full on, slider not effective. Some other mixer sliders feel a bit rough, but sound smooth enough; Output channel 5: not working; panel lights: not working; meter 4 light: not working; sequencer: not tested fully but the counter and reset work fine. Oscillator 5: not working; oscillator 12 (LFO): not working; frequency counter: probably not working properly - counts OK, but doesn't seem to respond to frequencies. Filter bank: not tested. Ring mod: not tested. EQ1: not working; EQ2: working in every respect except not triggering from keyboard or button; EQ3: triggering, working as envelope, but internal VCA not working. Input amp XLR socket missing its locking thing. VCF6: not working; VCF7 and 8: not working (inverted, strange behaviour). Top keyboard: 1 note iffy; bottom keyboard: pitch drifting. There are some aspects of the mods that need exploring more fully, so would also count as not tested. That still leaves perhaps 90% of this amazing machine working well. We have asked EMS experts Lucidsounds to estimate the cost of a full service, and their estimate is £2000. Please look at the photo carefully. It's difficult for space reasons to take a proper picture of the whole machine; please note that the back picture was taken when some of the heaviest modules had been removed for safe transport - hence the dangling connector, etc.. This comes with the stand for the keyboards, the back panels, a generous number of matrix pins (including some for the sequencer) - well into three figures, we think - and the original manuals, massive tomes like old bibles. This is the eighth out of less than 30 of these incredible machines, and one of very few (just 3 or 4?) to go to a private studio, so much less likely to be abused during its life by a succession of careless students or employees."

Ray Kurzweil - Futurist

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"[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality and financial investment. He is the author of numerous books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), the technological singularity and futurism. The Kurzweilian version of the future is the inevitable merger of humans and intelligent machines.

In this discussion with Computer History Museum Senior Curator Dag Spicer, Kurzweil shares his vision of how technology will re-shape the human body (and culture generally) into one that incorporates advanced technologies into a new type of post-human organism. Kurzweil sees this transformation occurring over the next 20 to 50 years and beginning with the integration of electronic-based systems into the human body. Some decades after that, a further transformation occurs--one based on nanotechnology—which incorporates the manipulation and construction of interfaces and complex systems based on atomic-level structures that merge with and control specific bodily functions and attack its problems (i.e. cancer). Some of the philosophical implications of Kurzweils vision are also discussed."