MATRIXSYNTH

DRONE RING FX SYNTH

via this auction

"The Drone Ring FX Synthesizer features two squarewave oscillators and a ring modulator. The pitch can be adjust by potentiometers. One of the oscillators can be used as a a vco. It has a preamp before the vco input so you can directly plug e-guitars and microphones into the input of the synthesizer. You can make nice droning and noisy, glitch sounds. The aluminium enclosure is very solid. It is powered by one 9V battery."

Audio: http://diysynth.blogsport.de...

A Message from Metasonix

via Brian

":D hehe I wonder how that got on there? ;p

Picture taken by Suburban Bather(http://soundcloud.com/suburban-bather) from this thread:
http://muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19886"

Metasonix R-51 NIN

Inside a Nord Wave

flickr set by AndyFord69
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"By having two oscillators capable of producing a vast array of sounds from classic analog waveforms (with sync), via FM-synthesis, wavetables, sampled waves (single cycle waveforms with attack) as well as noise and other miscellaneous waveforms to - playback of sampled waveforms, the Nord Wave has an unprecedented pallet of sounds.

Need a rich and full string quartet? No problem - just bring up the samples. A highly resonant screaming lead? Sure - virtual analog is there, but why not combine them - not just mix them together - but create an analog sound with the harmonic content of the sampled string quartet!

With oscillator modulation you can transfer the character of one sound to the other - for instance a sampled string to a analog square - and by controlling the amount of modulation the effect can range from very subtle to heavily aggressive were the original sound is no longer recognized."

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!"