MATRIXSYNTH

Roland MC-202 (MC202)

ROLAND MSQ-700 LEGENDARY SEQUENCER

via this auction

"HIGHLY REGARDED FOR IT'S SWING & GROOVE .

ALSO HAS IMPORTANT SYNC CONNECTORS AND OTHER ANALOGUE CONNECTORS FOR OLD ANALOGUE DRUM MACHINES AND SYNTHS .

Use it to control your TR-909, or Juno-60 or any other MIDI equipment. The MSQ-700 is compatible with both MIDI and Roland's proprietary DCB sync methods."

Roland CSQ-100 Sequencer

via this auction

"The Roland CSQ-100 is a microcomputer-controlled digital sequencer with analogue CV/Gate control/connectivity. Sequences can be recorded via the external CV/Gate input (from synth), or using step-time. It supports portamento, which is adjusted manually as a sequence is being played. It can record a maximum of 168 notes which is quite a rythm! (or 84 notes per channel), with full tempo control and built in (switchable) metronome feature. The sequences can also be edited once stored. Also incorporates a neat Calibration feature once connected to your synthesizer. A printed copy of the instructions will be included which are easy to follow."

Roland GR-500/GS-500 Synthesizer System

via this auction

- Roland GR-500 Guitar Synthesizer
- Roland GS-500 Guitar Controller
- Roland 24-pin connector cable
- Guitar Case

CLICK FOR MORE »

Oberheim DMX DX Vintage Drum Machine

via this auction

Note the auction is for the case only.

Sequential Circuits Prophet 600

via this auction
via the seller:
"This machine is in as you might know, the first MIDI equipped keyboard. 1982 was the year. This particular one was probably made a year later or so and is somewhere mid production. From what I can tell on serials numbers they only made maybe 7000 of these or like that. 2520 is the number on this one. It has a good OS that supports MIDI channels. Early ones were OMNI only. So not too useful in multi-instrument setups. You have to set the channel though each time you turn them on and turn omni off. (Record and 8.... then record and 9 held while hitting 'tune' to move the channel up) Once you get over that minor hurdle these are a fantastic analog machine! The DAC generates the envelopes and LFO. But everything in the signal path is analog. (CEM3340 VCO's x 12 and CEM3372 VCF/VCA's x 6) You can get some extremely gnarly sounds and these have found their way into a lot of sound tracks etc.. Lots of fun to play with the knobs on these. 100 patch storeage and midi in and out. Patches can be saved and loaded via MIDI or tape! I've never used the tape i/f on these so I can't say how it works. MIDI is all I've used and it works glitch free!"

CLICK FOR MORE »

via this auction
"As many of you know this is one of the last of the all analog polysynths, prior to a few more modern efforts. 1981. The polysix uses two CPU's. One to manage the patch storage, knob reading, most control voltage cell updating, button reading and LED lighting, and one to interface with the keyboard and create control voltages for the vco's. It also has three of the MN3004 bucket brigade devices to create chorus, phaser or ensemble effects as 'after processing' of the analog board's signal output. Which has 6 VCO's (transistor pairs that function fairly stably compared to many previous efforts), 6 envelope generators (SSM2056 chips), 6 VCF's (SSM2044 chips) and discrete analog vca's. (See my youtube videos using a previous polysix in fact at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDUzG9xAS1c to go over what the circuitry in this unit does basically)

The result is a synthesizer that interacts smoothly in 'manual' mode where you are just reading the knobs. Whenever you recall a patch you have to pre-move knobs or they of course will not respond smoothly always. Just the reality of having knobs in arbitrary positions compared to the patch you are calling up. But interacting with the arpeggiator is a lot of fun. A great instrument to explore the analog realm with at a price that pales in comparison to other all analog polysynths that have full knob implementation or something near that AND decent patch storeage..(ie. Oberheims OBX series, Sequential circuits Prophet 5 or 10, Yamaha CS 70M, and Roland Jupiter 6 and 8 of course) Because of the initially low price Korg was able to offer late in the game when technology had matured some and memory prices had dropped etc. these often get looked at as inferior. In some ways they are..they have one VCO per voice. However there is still a lot of synth power here and for the dollar you can't beat it in all analog world at the moment from a bang/buck vantage point I don't believe. Wakeman etc. didn't perform with junk :-)

Serial number is 399244 "

CLICK FOR MORE »