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Oberheim Expander / OB-Xpander?

via ConcreteCancer on the forum:
"Okay, my dad is trying to remember an Oberheim product that looked like the OB-X and was called an OB-Xpander.

Anyone have any info on these pups? They are mentioned on a few websites but i can't seem to find anything solid or pictures."

Note this is obviously not the Xpander. I seem to recall mention of the "Expander" on various synth lists and forumns in the past. I did a quick search in the archives here and on Google image search but came up dry. Anyone recall this one and/or know where we can find an image of one?

Update:

This one in via Vincent. Click here (note this is an affiliate link and supports the site, if you prefer a non affiliate link, click here), wait for the Amazon book reader to come up and then in the left search box, search for OB-Xpander. Click on the first link that starts with "page 170." In the resulting page, scroll down and you will see it.

The following is a question from Vincent. If anyone knows, feel free to comment:
"I was a Music Synthesis student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA in the late '80s, and I'm willing to bet that this photo was taken in one of their synth labs, as prototypes occasionally made their way past faculty and students for evaluation. '82 was 4 years before my time, but I'd swear it's from a Berklee synth lab. Can anybody confirm? I have an OB-8, rev B5 with MIDI; cutting it down to look like this in an 'OB-Xpander' format could be very practical, in 2010"

Roland VG-99 Demo Trak Sci-Fi Synth by Paul Leishman of New Wave Artist Anjelicas Baby

YouTube via AnjelicasBaby
"Hi Paul Leishman from British new wave, dance, electronic pop and synthpop music artist Anjelicas Baby here. Just been experimenting with my Roland VG-99 guitar modelling processor in cubase. Here is a short demo piece entitled Sci-Fi Synth. All guitar and synth sounds are off the Roland VG-99 guitar modelling processor with the exception of the drums. I used a Jackson Performer PS4 guitar and a Roland GK3 pickup for anyone interested.

Anjelicas baby music can now be downloaded or listen to from the following sites. iTunes U.S., iTunes Australia/N.Z., iTunes Canada, iTunes UK/European Union, iTunes Japan, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, IMVU, Amazon MP3, Lala, Shockhound, Amie Street, last.fm, indiestore.com, play.fm, limewire,"

RC CIRCUIT BENT MULTI OSCIILATOR FM DESKTOP SYNTHESISER

YouTube via djwidow420
"a unique 6 oscillator fm synthesiser by resonance circuits"

M-.-n feature report on TV Brussel

YouTube via discodirt.

follow-up to this post

"Feature report done on Marc Nostromo's musical activities."

"Tags:
Marc Nostromo M-.-n lsdj littlesounddj lgpt littlegptracker"

Time Scape Wave Sequencer preliminaria

YouTube via benpumpkin. Folktek on Ebay
"This is a brief preliminary video meant to be a visual presentation (not a sonic one) of the "Time Scape Wave Sequencer" by Arius Blaze of Folktek. There will be more to come. enjoy"

J. S. Bach's Air on a G String for Modular Synthesizer

New version up here.

souvenir de chine -jarre-nordwave solo

YouTube via graal7
"my second version of jean michel jarre "souvenir de chine" with nordwave solo ."

208 lightshow

YouTube via isledemort
"208 Random circuit triggering Modcan delay, Verbos' 258 VCO, Noise Ring, Teezer & VCS.
VCS clocks the 208, & a CGS Utility LFO modulates pretty much everything else."

MIDItriggs clock out demonstration

YouTube via MusicMiK
"This is the demonstration of my current small project called MIDItriggs, an universal, open-source MIDI to/from trigger interface for old analog beatboxes and drum machines.

This video demonstrates the clock output feature, which is just added "because we can" :)

You can synchronize and control MIDI sequencers using the built-in sequencer of your beatbox, in the case of the Hohner Automatic Rhythm Player, this is some TTL logic with a diode matrix.

Of course, you can also send the machine trigger signals as MIDI notes, but in this video, they are filtered, just the start/stop/clock messages are sent to the RM1x.

The project will be published with source code, schematics and documentation this weekend.

The firmware is smaller than 4 kilobytes and uses less than 512 bytes of RAM, so it can be used on an ATmega48, while using an ATmega88 or larger can even give you boot loader capabilities to update the firmware over MIDI. The MIDIboot boot loader for this is already published."

Update:

MIDItriggs configuration demonstration

"Here, i show you how to update the MIDItriggs firmware if you use the MIDIboot loader in your MCU, which is an ATmega88 in my unit.

Besides this, i show you how the configuration of MIDItriggs works with just one button for the input (and MIDI events to set MIDI channel and the mappings of instruments), while for the feedback, the sound generators in the beatbox are used to give simple patterns telling you the current state of the configuration items.

The source code, schematics and documentation are public now, you can find everything about the project here: http://www.mik-music.org/MIDItriggs

Soon, a new version with completed documentation and PCB layout will follow, the project will grow as i find other units i can attach this nice toy to. The hardware might need changes for some other units, like the Roland CR-78, which also would be an interesting candidate for this, i just don't have one currently, so this has to wait a bit."