MATRIXSYNTH

VTOL CRAMOLA

via etherra.blogspot.com

1st page of the manual

"in russian CRAMOLA means - sedition, something bad, mostly something anti-religion - sinful"

1981 Roland Jupiter-8 Two Page Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Encore Electronics Frequency Shifter Review

on Sequence 15

snip:
"A Frequency Shifter is Not the Same as a Pitch Shifter

So what's a frequency shifter? Well, I had a bunch of material that I wrote to address all that, but I've decided to save it for a follow-up post. To keep it short, a frequency shifter is sort of like a pitch shifter, but it does not maintain the harmonic or musical relationships between the various tones and sounds that make the input. What's that good for? Well, for one thing, it's great for bell and chime sounds, and it behaves a lot more predictably than a ring modulator in doing that job. It can do flanging-like effects that range from subtle to startling. It can do creation of sounds that play in unusual intervals and scales. But if you want to completely brutalize a sound, rip it apart and then glue the pieces back together like a ransom note, a frequency shifter is what you want."

Meow

flickr by goto10

E-MU Command Station XL7 Monster

flickr by Hotelsinus

Alien

Roland SH1000

via this auction

"Here's a piece of synth history. Its a Roland SH1000 manufactured in Japan in the early 70s. The SH1000 was the first synth produced by Roland and some sources credit it as the first commercially available Japanese synth. The synth has some interesting features including white/pink noise, random note generator, ADSR, portamento, filter growl and wah, plus hold function and lots of prestets that are all mixable!"

Modded Roland SH-101 with Black and Grey Reverse Keys

via this auction

Curious if this is this one.

Analogue Solutions Leipzig Rack Mono-Synthesizer

via Noisebug on Ebay
"KEY FEATURES OF LEIPZIG
* Pure analogue voice circuitry.
* Fat Moog style filter.
* 2 VCOs with Glide and Sub-VCOs.
* Plenty of modulation routing possibilities.
* Extra tone controls and circuits for more sound variety e.g. LFO, CrossMod.
* Rugged steel construction and 'vintage' wood design.
* 'Real' printed front panel. Quality silk screen printing. We do not use big stickers like M**g.
* MIDI In for software sequencer control.

Sounds:
Demo 1
Demo 2
Demo 3"

BugBrand BugCrusher Micro Sample Rate Reducer Pedal

via this auction

"BugBrand BugCrusherMicro Pedal
The diminutive uCrusher for compact sample-rate-reduction. Read the original description here. There are also some sound examples given there. I kept this one at the end of the production run of these Crushers and it is used, but in good condition. It runs off an internal 9v battery (new one supplied inside - you must remove the base to change!) or standard 2.1mm centre-negative power (boss-style) Shipping Weight: 0.50kg"

BugBrand BugCrusher Sample Rate Reducer Pedal 2006

via this auction
"BugBrand BugCrusher - Sample-rate-reduction pedal. This is one of the original production BugCrushers, built around the end of 2006. It is in very good condition as these were built in plain metal cases without any labeling (see archive link for exact knob descriptions).

Basically this is a BugCrusher with modulation from an internal LowFreqOscillator and an input for a volume pedal style control pedal (not included). The pedal input can also be used with external Control Voltages as long as the ring connection is left unconnected (ie use a stereo jack with floating ring connection)

There is a full description of this pedal on the BugBrand Archive site.

Sound samples and a diagram of controls can also be found there.

Notes:
* This pedal comes supplied with an AC power adaptor - this is AC output not the usual DC output! The pictures below show the UK power pack, but I have stock of EU and US supplies too so will ship with one relevant to your location.
* The linked archive pictures show pedals with a little circuit board label attached to the front of the pedal -- this one does NOT have one of these labels.