MATRIXSYNTH

Arp Omni Synthesizer Model 2483

via this auction

"Chase was a vintage shop operating in the UK. These are flyers from their catalogues, complete and very rare!"

If anyone knows where to find decent scans of these let me know. Interesting bit of synth history.

Vintage Roland Rhythm 77 Rare Analog Drum Machine

via this auction
Some of the description appears to be from the dubsounds.com sample pack page. "The Rhythm-77 (TR-77) was the product that launched the Roland Corp. in 1972 and was the flagship of the Rhythm trio, which included the R-33 and R-55. Its place in history is secured as the first Roland drum machine ever made. It was Ikutaro Kakehashi's baby which he used to introduce the world to ROLAND after he sold off Ace Tone and moved on to bigger things. The Rhythm-77 (TR-77) came in two versions, the more common organ style wooden case with built in music stand and a black tolex "roadie protected" (TR-77V). Incidentally, if you don't already know TR stood for Transistor Rhythm. It had separate faders for the Kick, Snare, Guiro and Hi-Hat/Cymbal/Maracas, making it a very flexible machine in the studio. As with many early drum machines you could get more out of them by selecting multiple rhythms and layering them over each other.

Sonically, the 77 is probably the warmest sounding of all Roland's analogue beat boxes (before or since). The kick does lack punch but more than made up for that in bass content and the percussion sounds are very nice indeed. The standout sound has to be the guiro pattern which you can fade in over the top of the Cha-Cha and Mambo rhythms. Unashamedly "lounge" and instantly recognizable.

You can spot the TR-77 on quite a few tracks from the late '70s. It was quite popular for a few years until the CompuRhythm range took over. Gary Numan used it briefly on the "Replicas" album before moving on to the CR-78. Ultravox (with John Foxx) also used a 77 first before Foxx immortalized the CR-78 on his seminal "Metamatic" album. The 77 is also heard quite prominently in the intro to Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Girls On Film" by Duran Duran.

Rhythms:
Latin: Rhumba, Beguine, Cha-Cha, Mambo, Samba 1&2, Bossa Nova, Baion, Bolero, Tango
Rock: Rock'n'Roll 1&2, Slow Rock, Ballad, Western, March, Jazz Waltz, Waltz, Cancel (quiet)
2beat & 4beat: Bass Drum, Snare, Fox Trot, Swing, Parade, Shuffle

Drum Sounds:
Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Low Conga, Low Bongo, High Bongo, Rim Shot, Maracas, High Hat, Cymbal, Tambourine, Guiro, Cowbell."

Sound Source Unlimited Korg M1 M1R Synthesizer Collection ROM Card

via this auction

"vintage Korg M1/M1R "Synthesizer Collection" sound ROM card from 1992. "Synthesizer Collection" is a complete set of early classic synths (Chroma, Oberheim, Roland Juno, Korg Poly 800, etc.) and new modern synth emulations (Roland D50, Fairlight, Kawai K4, etc.). Basses, Pads, Solo instruments, splits, multi-layers and sound effects are also included in this collection. There are 100 Single Patches and 100 Combinations including 'D50 Ocean', 'Jupiter 8', '2Juno 60's', 'The Abyss', 'Silver Moon', 'Mentor', 'UFO 1' and many more."

Shruthi-1 Acrylic Enclosure...

flickr set By fcd72
(click for more)

"Tips, Tricks & Hints for assembling the Mutable instruments Shruthi-1 Acrylic enclosure."

chrome_rene.mp4

YouTube via yerpa58 | September 26, 2010

"MakeNoise René prototype running Stored Quantized Voltage Function. Simple patch with René quantized CV driving Doepfer A-110 VCO. René's Gate-X and Gate-Y outputs are driving two different VCA envelopes from MakeNoise MATHS to Doepfer A-130 VCA. MakeNoise Wogglebug generating clocks to Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider which patched to René's X-Clk and Y-Clk inputs."

DIY hardware programmer for Kawai K3m Synthesizer and CR-78-clone

YouTube via stereoping | September 26, 2010

"This video features my 2 last diy-projects: a hardwareprogrammer for the Kawai K3m and an analogue drumsynthesizer. Sorry for the shaking, had to hold the cam the whole songrecording.

1. I made a hardware programmer for my beloved kawai k3m which is normally painful to edit. It's made out of an old keyfax phatboy which is quite useless normally because it only sends mostly useless fixed controllerdata. I spent it a new brain of an atmega8 and connected it to the multiplexers and switches. After some programming it now sends sysexdata suitable for the K3. Of course any incoming mididata is merged through. Notes have priority before sysex to prevent notelags. There are 3 color-modes which can be switched by a 3-way-switch in the upper right corner of the controller.

2. Second featured DIY-project in this video is my "Viscand 16" - a frankensteinproduct of a VISCount 160 and the rolAND cr78. It eats mididata and listenes on 16 notes to trigger the voices. Its hard to find coils today, the CR78 needs some for filtering (tambourine, metalbeat aso.) . I tried to overcome that by filtering the noise with a simple opamp-bandpass before it gets into the circuit. Another try was to use old relais-coils together with some capacitors, well it worked somehow. The sound is quite near by the cr78. Although i still got some problems with a clean accent-amp the video shows how it sounds.
Other synths used: v-synth (suqareblip), polysix-plugin, albino-plugin (Bass) and dynacord studioquad for reverbs."

TouchOSC on the iPad and Native Intruments B4II

YouTube via mvpadrini | September 26, 2010

"O app TouchOSC para iOS permite enviar mensagens OSC por conexão Wi-fi. Com um computador Windows ou Mac é possível receber estas mensagens e convertê-las em MIDI para controlar VSTis, outros softwares ou até mesmo hardwares.

Neste vídeo criamos um layout especialmente para o Native Instruments B4II utilizando o TouchOSC Editor (gratuito). Para receber as mensagens OSC e convertê-las em MIDI utilizamos o OSCulator para MacOS.

Confira mais sobre apps musicais para iOS e outros dispositivos móveis em www.musicapps.com.br

The TouchOSC app for iOS allows to send OSC messages using Wi-fi connection. With a Windows or Mac computer is possible to receive those messages and convert them into MIDI to control VSTis, other softwares and even hardwares.

In this video we created a custom layout for NI B4II using the TouchOSC editor (free). For receiving the OSC messages and for making the MIDI conversion we used the OSCulator for MacOS.

More about Music Apps on MusicApps.com.br

If you are an app developer and want to have a review about your musical app in portuguese, please contact us: marcus@musicapps.com.br"