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Roland SVC-350 Rackmount Vocoder

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ROLAND TR-808

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Roland TB-303 with Devilfish Mod

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"The Devil Fish is a modification to the TB-303 - a synthesiser/sequencer produced by Roland in 1981/82, which has played a crucial role in the development of electronic dance music.

Features include:
• CV and Gate inputs.
• CV input to turn on Slide.
• CV input for Accent.
• CV input for Filter Frequency.
• Output for Accent.
• Audio In to filter.
• Audio In to frequency modulate the filter.

• Audio Out from filter (pre-VCA).
• Overdrive pot to control the level of oscillator going to the filter: zero to 66.6 times normal level.
• Separate control of Main Envelope Generator times in accented and non-accented notes.
• Volume envelope is no longer fixed, and can be varied from 16 msec through 3 seconds – and to no decay at all, i.e. for notes which last indefinitely.
• Soft Attack control gives attack times between 0.3 and 30 msec. (TB-303 attack was ~3 msec.)
• Slide time is variable to five times longer than normal.

• Variable Filter Tracking causes the oscillator CV to control the filter frequency.
• Internal Filter FM: a unique approach of AC coupled Filter FM from the audio output of the VCA.
• The Muffler is a unique post-VCA soft-clip distortion circuit which retains bass response.
• Push-button to manually activate Accent.
• Filter can be switched to self resonance.
• Accent Sweep has three modes and can be disabled.
• Filter Cut Off pot range doubled to 5 kHz max, and widened to include much lower frequencies.

• Env Mod pot range extended to include zero and go as high as three times the normal maximum.
• Bass response is improved.
• Lithium battery for at least ten years battery backup, so there is no need to install C-cell batteries.
• The six TB-303 knobs Tuning to Accent are mounted 1.5mm higher, making them easier to turn.
• The Devil Fish can still sound like a TB-303."

Roland MSQ-100 MIDI Sequencer

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"This is a classic Roland MIDI sequencer from the 80's. Why is it cool? Because you can use it as a MIDI to DIN sync converter. That's why I had it. Not sure if it all works the way it's supposed to because all I did was load it full of blank sequences each time and sync my CR-8000 to my computer. Worked like a charm. Should work with TB-303 and other DIN sync only devices like the 606 as well.
Cheap way to sync old to the new. What you see is what you get. No power supply. The power supply I used goes to one of my other units, but it uses a standard readily available Roland/Boss PSA power adapter found just about everywhere. Manual is available for download free from Roland."

RARE RED SOUND DARKSTAR

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Update via Dave O Mahoney in the comments: "The auction is a little misleading... the XP2 does NOT take the vocoder chip. I asked RedSound themselves years ago and the reply was 'It wasnt implemented in software before the product was discontinued.'

The original Darkstar can take them - the XP2 cannot, even though there is an expansion port for the chip. I'll happily swap my XP2 for an original with vocoder chip!