CRUMAR DS2 Vintage Synthesizer

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"The DS2 was a very popular synth for performance and studio work. The CRUMAR DFS2 has dual oscillators, filters, Noise generators, EQ, Pitch, ASDR sections and a weird sequencer thingy, too. It's very well built and roadworthy. Your favorite '80s disco hits were played using these things. You can do white or pink noise sweeps - all those tacky tricks."

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1987 ROLAND D-50 Vintage Synthesizer MINT IN BOX

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"1987 Roland D50 with original box + vinyl cover + programming book"

CRUMAR PERFORMER Vintage Brass String Synth

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mystery modular synthesizer - who made it? found in junk pile

YouTube via horchacha
"who made this thing i found at the electronics surplus/junk area?
holy crap it's cool! the power supply is lacking and there is a hum
on the powerline - i will work on that and get some knobs!

thanks mystery person!??!

please get in touch? any info anyone?

it has a paia midi2cv8 set to MIDI CC mode w/ buffers and atten on each
two cem 3394 Synth Voices - vco/vca/vcf x 2
noise source
a lag/lfo vcs type thing
a cosine/sine quadrature lfo
modular opamps
inverters
mixers
banana to 1/4"

all diy except the paia midi2cv8
sequence is from cgs seq switch sequencer
not using the midi yet

dave wright
www.notbreathing.com"

Casio RZ-1 Drum Machine Circuit Bent Part 1

YouTube via kenzie2029
"Casio Drum Machine Circuit Bent Part 1 (Casio RZ1 RZ 1 RZ-1)

Quick sample video of my work in progress. Has a 24 point RCA patch bay and a 4 in/out on off section. My next set of bends will be two pitch controls, momentary switches for the on/offs, and more accessible tone controls for the samples.

Also, tucked deep in the lab is a RZ-1 Plus that I'm working on."

Casio RZ-1 Drum Machine Circuit Bent Part 2 Finished

"Casio Drum Machine Circuit Bent Part 2 (Casio RZ1 RZ 1 RZ-1)

Has a 24 point RCA patch bay that short circuits three of the four eprom chips. The different chips are for certain samples, so some patches effect only certain sounds. You can patch with in the chips and chip to chip. In addition to the patch bay there are four input / output on/off switch section with toggle switches and momentary buttons.

There is now a switch to bypass the RZ-1s main timing crystals with two getlofi 1799 precision oscillators to allow for some great pitch control. I still have a little bit of tweaking to do with some different pots and resistors.

I've added 10k pots on the top to easier access the samples tone control. Also, I replaced the internal permanent soldered battery with a replaceable one.

HUGE thanks to wotatwaat at http://www.exfade.org/details5.html for his help!

Also, tucked deep in the lab is a RZ-1 Plus that I'm working on."

Supertramp - Dreamer (Old Grey Whistle Test)

YouTube via malacite1. via Jared. "Live on Old Grey Whistle Test in 1974"
Anyone ID the keyboard with sliders playing the chimes in the last few seconds of the video?

KORG DS-10 PLUS Tutorials

YouTube via XSEEDgames. DS-10 Plus on Ebay DS-10 Plus on Amazon

vids now here

Open Labs' SoundSlate

YouTube via OpenLabsInc
"Open Labs' Jim Stout explains to you "What Is SoundSlate" Find out more at http://www.openlabs.com/sou..."

Open Labs' DBeat

"Open Labs' Jim Stout explains to you 'what is a DBeat'.
Find out more at http://www.openlabs.com/dbeat"

The New Wave of Modular Synthesizers - PNW AES Event Tonight

This is just a reminder that the PNW AES Modular synth meet is tonight. If you are in the PNW area feel free to drop by. Full details and directions are currently up here. For the archives, and to see all posts for the event including interview links, images, and video see the new PNWAES label.

The following people will be at the event showing their gear:
James Husted - Synthwerks
Scott Jaeger - The Harvestman
George Mattson - Mattson Mini Modular
Scott Stites - Division 6
flight - flight of harmony
Stephen Jones - Red Martian / Synthwood

MDB Window Recorder

Update: pic via http://www.muzines.co.uk where you'll find an article with additinal details on the MDB Window Recorder.
This update is in via swissdoc on 7/8/2019.

Original post:

Anyone know more about this one? swissdoc wrote in with the following: "while listening to the Electronic Soundmaker cassette from August 1985 I realized they where testing a Sampler there which I never heard about so far, the MDB Window Recorder. As a quick search reveals, it was built in Switzerland.

Here are the relevant hits I could find:
http://www.giant.ch/index___id=contact&l=en.html

Giant has been involved in the design and the manufacture of the one of the first real 16bit digital audio samplers, the "MDB Window Recorder".
http://www.the-gas-station.com/messages.cfm?Type=normal&Thread_ID=40161&LastDays=40201"

mp3 here

From the giant.ch link above: "Giant Electronics is a swiss distribution company dedicated to the audio-pro market. Giant Electronics was founded in 1978 by Vincent Baettig, and was a manufacturing company between 1982 and 1989.

Giant has been involved in the design and the manufacture of the one of the first real 16bit digital audio samplers, the "MDB Window Recorder".

Between 1985 and 2001, Giant has been mainly involved in pro-audio sales and in high-end "computer based" audio & video workstation solutions. Our regular activities take place into studio-mixdown, mastering, post-synchronisation, broadcast, multimedia and home-recording markets."

Update via 7ate9 in the comments:
"It was a grey rack mount unit as far as I remember. From around the time when AMS introduced the CV/Gate keyboard interface so you could use their digital delay as a sampler.
I think Daniel Miller and/or Gareth Jones used the MDB when working with Depeche Mode back then.
MDB also made a digital sequencer/keyboard thing which was sold at a VEMIA auction some years ago."