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Legendary Arp Odyssey Lumina with Phil Cirocco / CMS LED Sliders

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You might recognize this one from this post. ARP Odyssey Lumina modded by Phil Cirocco of CMS

"It may sound hyperbolic, but, I sincerely believe this to be the finest Arp Odyssey on earth.

This Odyssey sat in Phil Cirocco's personal collection, selected by him as the ideal candidate for the nearly obscene LED-slider retrofit, the first ever done, and it is, indeed, beautiful.

A white face Odyssey, it is already among the best. However, Phil took it as far as one can. This is the very same ARP 2800 shown on Phil's site here:

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/arptronics/arp2800.htm

Upgrades...

The most obvious upgrade to this Odyssey is with the sliders. Every slider has been replaced with a new sort of slider which contains color-coded LEDs appropriate to the Odyssey heritage. These sliders feel incredible, they move beautifully and sit where they're left... it is an entirely different experience using an Odyssey with sliders this clean and precise. It is truly a player's synth, now.

There are some lovely touches with this upgrade: the LFO slider blinks at the LFO rate, as do both envelope slider LED sets, brightening and darkening in time with the envelope. Beautiful.

The CMS audio path and filter upgrades have also been applied. Filter cutoff range is lifted from a mere 11khz to 28khz. The audio path upgrade cleans the entire signal path, the bass clarity is absolutely terrifying, to neighbors, pets and your recording tools.

The power supply has been rebuilt to last another twenty years.

Other upgrades: the turbo switch has been added for incredibly fast envelope response and there are input jacks for CV and gate control of the instrument (shown in the photographs to the right) - wonderful for use with analog sequencers and MIDI to CV converters of all kinds."

Synton Fenix

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"incredibly rare Synton Fenix modular synthesizer. I believe that 75 of these were made, prized by their owners and rarely found for sale. Designed by the (in)famous Synton team in Holland, this is easily one of the most flexible and comprehensive modular synthesizers ever designed. They kept this instrument interesting throughout - each oscillator, LFO, envelope and so forth are very different. The noise source is incredibly flexible, the ring modular isn't vanilla at all and there are plenty of thoughtful little tricks throughout which surface as you spend time with the machine.

The Encore Expressionist is, in my opinion, the nicest MIDI to CV converter around. It provides eight CV outputs and eight trigger/gate outputs. These outputs can be used for notes, bound to MIDI CCs, grouped up for polyphony, assigned to additional LFOs which the Expressionist provides via software, with a very, very easy to understand interface. The workflow of this device is very nice, it stays out of the way, and can be used to interface with all sorts of devices aside from the Fenix. It even understands S-Trig for Moog devices!"

Cyndustries / Modcan A Milton Sequencer

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"16 x 4 *Powerful* Analog Sequencer for Modcan A
Hen's teeth to find today, for auction is a Cyndustries-brand Milton sequencer in Modcan A format.

This Milton is of the revision with CV inputs for sweeping through sequencer stage."

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Access Microwave I Programmer

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"rare Access Music programmer for the Waldorf Microwave I."

Signal Arts MAPS Sequencer

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"The MAPS is a killer 8 step analog sequencer. It handles 16 banks of 8 sequences, able to run multiple concurrent sequences, chaining sequences to other sequences, modulating sequences by each other, and sending the sequencer output to any of three cv+gate pairs as well as up to 32 channels of MIDI.

Sequences can run at different speeds from each other, sync'd to external trigger, external clock, each with different step lengths. Each step can send modulation data, of course!

Sequences can also be triggered to play from the buttons on the front. Very playable!

It's a bit of a swiss army knife in that it can speak both MIDI and CV at the same time. The CV can talk to anything: S-Trig for Moog, V/Oct as well as the Korg Hz/Oct standard."

Moog Minimoog Classic Synthesizer

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"She was built 6/5/1973 and is serial number 2483."

MOOG Prodigy vintage analog synth w/ CV & Gate mods

via this auction

"Prodigy has modifications for CV and Gate control, allowing you to control the Moog externally (sequencer, MIDI/CV converter) or use this as a modular master keyboard. The CV is scaled for V/Oct and the gate is a standard positive gate (not typical Moog S-trig)."

CS01mods_inna303style.mp4

YouTube via TheRealADAMBABY
"Demonstration of new tone capabilites after installation of the Highly Liquid midi kit, resonance mod, and external CV control. See http://www.adambaby.com/stu...
for details and photos."

Drone Lab Demo

Drone Lab Demo from paul sobczak on Vimeo.

"Drone Lab by Casper Electronics, behind the machine here is Paul Sobczak. Seen in the video an Edirol R09HR recorder as well as one of Mr. Sharpe's Engineering feats the Memory Toy from Electro Harmo"nix" via Twin Cities Maker