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Elektor Formant Modular Synthesizer

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"Elektor Formant Modular Synthesizer System very rare
Unique Opportunity
Early German 1970s

great condition custom/built Formant Modular System with keyboard it apparently came also from the very respected "martin Newcomb Synth collection " and is pictured in the Peter Forrest A to Z books

there is a fair amount of historical information on the Formant Modular on the internet a useful link is...

It has been fully restored by the synth guru at KSR ( kent spong ) each and every function configuration is

4 x VCO
2 x VCF 12db
1 X VCF 24db
1 x RFM (Resonance Filter)
2 x COM (Control and Output)
2 x LFO (Triple/Multi LFO Module) 6 LFOs in total

4 x ADSR
1 x ADSR Controller
2 x Dual VCA
1 x Noise
1 x Anlogue controller Keyboard and inter-connect cable

The specification is high and powerfull

This particular example has been very well constructed and as you can see from the pictures is in very good condition and being pure"old" analouge sounds extraordinary

Following the standard form-factor of most 1V/Oct analogue systems this Formant system would fit nicely into any existing analogues setup and being of 1970s German design offers the purist something really very special and different from the more contemporary modulars on offer these days

the recently full service by KSR is still under warranty aswell

Runs on EU voltage 220V"

HOHNER HS-2/E Phase Distortion (iPD) Synthesizer

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"2U rack mount design
Interactive Phase Distortion (IPD) synthesis
16 notes
8 part
64 Normal Voices (single sounds), 64 Combination Voices (up to 4 single
sounds layered or positionally cross-faded) in RAM

ROM/RAM Card with double the capicity of internal RAM
Volume Slider, Value Slider
LCD: backlit 64 x 96 dot
Phones, Card slot
Mix Output x 2 (Line out, XLR) Line Out Jacks 1 and 2, Midi: In/Out/Thru"

Update: this appears to be the same synth as the Casio VZ-10M (see this post) VZ-1 Module/Rack. Thanks to suitandtieguy in the comments for catching this.

Cheetah MS-6 Polyphonic Analogue Synth with MAAD Upgrade

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"This unit has been fitted with the MAAD firmware upgrade which gives the MS-6 the following features:

* MIDI bank select (CC #0), globally and per-part.
* Program change per-part.
* Remote control of all tone edit parameters using CC messages, both in tone and performance mode.
* No more partial drop-outs at bottom C (130.8Hz).
* Three more DCO shape settings, both for DCO A and B: off, pulse + triangle and pulse + sawtooth. The new pulse shapes can use PWM as well.
* Extended SysEx support: single patch and edit buffer dumps + requests, full dump and status requests.
* Mono mode, per-part, with a choice of always retriggering the envelopes or to not retrigger when playing legato (i.e. pressing a new key before releasing the current one).
* Portamento, per-part, constant-time (0.015 - 18.3 s) or constant-rate (400 - 0.44 semitones/s). Full-time or fingered (i.e., only in mono mode when playing legato).
* Support for bank 7 tones in performances

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Korg Polysix

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Tama Techstar TS 204 Electronic Voice Module - 808 Clap

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"Tama Techstar TS 204 Electronic Voice Module. This is the very rare "Synth," drum and "Hand Clap," module in the Tech Star series, perfect for that 80's analog bass drum sound, and of course, the venerable hand-clap. This unit is truly analog, too! Trigger inputs are standard (mono) 1/4" inputs, two for each channel-one is a Roland type trigger or gate input and the other is a audio to drum trigger ( even microphones) can be used to trigger the sound. There are a total of 4 trigger inputs, 2 separate audio outs , 1 mix audio out

The analog "Synth," bass drum sound has seven knobs for adjusting the decay, modulation, tone, tuning, noise, triangle/square wave and noise levels, getting and excellent 808/909 type sound. The "Hand Clap," features reverb time and level adjustments-its an exact replica of 808 clap but with far more control"

Alesis A6 Andromeda Synthesizer

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Analogue Solutions SEMblance Synthesizer

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SID 6581 SYNTHESIZER

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"BUILT IT INTO A BULLET PROOF THICK PLEXI GLASS. THE THICKNESS OF SOME OF THE PLEXI IS ABOUT 1". THE SID CHIP HAS A BUSTED FILTER. YOU CAN STILL GET SOUND, YOU JUST HAVE TO TURN OFF THE FILTER IN THE MENU. YOU CAN EASILY REPLACE THE SID CHIP FOR ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE IT'S ON A SOCKET."