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eChucK Standards Document - New Format Hardware Synths

"There’s a new type of music synthesizer on the horizon. It’s simple, elegant, inexpensive, and can take many physical forms. Born out of a desire to make electronic models of software music programs, the e in eChucK is for electronic. The ChucK part refers to my particular favorite music programming language, but that is not important here. What is important is the standard, linked below... [here]

OK, OK, what IS it then? Well, imagine a modular synthesizer with the case and front panels removed. You’ve got a bunch of circuit boards with wires hanging off of them scattered about on a desktop. Now make each board small and simple by reducing it’s design to minimal form. Now the circuit boards are really small and the wires just changed into 22 ga. solid hookup wire. You rearrange the boards onto a panel or in free space, supporting their light weight with the stiff wire, and make your own free-form synth sculpture. Rewire to your heart’s content to make the music that you want. That’s the idea behind eChucK.

To summarize, eChucK is a standard of tiny simplified synth boards wired freely with various miniaturization tricks like thumbwheel pots and micro switches, mini screw terminals for pcb i/o, and plain old wire for hookup."

Full details here: https://reinventor.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/echuck-standards-document/

via Les aka Inventor

See the EChuck label below for some previous posts.

Original EMS AKS SYNTHI for Auction

via this auction
"100% operational EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer, a true vintage original from the early 1970s. It was bought about 5 years ago from a couple who had stored it in a closet for around 30 years. Literally like finding a low-mileage T-Bird in a little old lady from Pasadena's garage! Everything works: no scratchy pots (except for a slightly scratchy reverb level knob) and no iffy sequencer problems. Just plug it in, make a patch and you're ready to travel the spaceways. Comes with an instruction book, all the original patch pins, connector cable for the keyboard, and of course the power cord. This synthesizer has so much history, I almost feel foolish trying to explain it. Created in England by Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockrell, this unit (of which only about 750 were ever made), or its counter top brother, the VCS3, has been featured on albums by Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Brian Eno, Alvin Curran, Thomas Lehn, White Noise, Tim Blake, King Crimson, and Jean Michel Jarre. The list goes on and on. This has been described by many as being LSD in a box. It's really all that and more. As mentioned, I have had zero issues with it in the entire time I've owned it, but because of its age I'm selling it as is. The photos don't do it justice, it's a beautiful machine that I think you'll be proud to own as I have for these past 5 years."

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Synthrotek.com 8 Step Analog Sequencer w/ 2 Atari Punk Consoles

YouTube via synthrotek | January 27, 2011 |

"Two Synthrotek.com APC's that allow CV input are connected to one 8 step sequencer (kits for both of these devices are available on our site) via a splitter cable out of the CV. Very cool sounds, can get some 5ths sounds etc if tuned right. Great combo"