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Roland TR-606 Drumatix analog drum machine

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Roland Juno 106 with Wood Side Panels

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SIEL CRUISE (RARE) Fully polyphonic analogue synth

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"Manufactured by italian manufacturer siel in the early 80's. This is a beast of a keyboard weighing in at a hefty 15kgs!!. What you got for your money though was two synthesisers in one, A fully polyphonic section and a monophonic synth section. Built like an absolute tank with thick gauge steel hinged front faceplate allowing full access to internal electronics. To build something like this these days would cost an absolute arm and a leg!!... One of the voices this synth is renowned for was the string type sounds. The voice was an absolute copy of a solina keyboard voice which was a lush deep warm phasing type voice that when used with effects can give a string sound to die for. All other voices are also usable. Mono section has the usual filter with resonance and frequency. You have the option of a fixed keyboard split allowing you to play a mono sound on the left and a poly on the right or vise versa. Can also play mono and poly patches layered. Pitch bend and portamento control, pitchbend control has it's control cap intact and the shaft is straight and responsive. Monosection has the option to play standard fixed tones or the option to modify using the filter or enevelope shaper also vibrato. The vibrato is a strange one because this effect is only available in the mono section with a preset vibrato delay. The poly section however has a control called 'animator' this was simply a chorus type effect that could be used on most of the poly section voices to thicken the voice for a warm polyphasic effect, quite effective though..."

YAMAHA SY-1 VINTAGE MONO SYNTHESIZER

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Hand made Mini Synthesizer Chaotic sound Generator

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"The Chaos Engine is a 5 oscillator mini synth. Despite it's lo-fi discrete transistor design and very simple panel layout, it can produce a huge variety of sound textures. These range from simple bleepy melodies reminiscent of The Silver Apples, to fractal noise and spluttering sonic convulsions similar to the sound of fax machines or old computer tapes. Because of it's fractal-like qualities, the slightest microscopic knob turn can totally change the sound.

The Chaos Engine has 3 basic modes of operation:

1 No sync.

The oscillators do not influence each other. In this mode it is like a primitive keyboard,only with the added creative possibilities of being able to tune the notes individually.

2 Harmonic sync.

The oscillators are all synchronized to oscillator 1. As you turn the tuning knobs the pitch will not glide as normal; instead you will hear a series of harmonics, sometimes very musical and strange undertone scales.

3 Chaotic sync.

The oscillators all try to sync to each other. This is controlled by the chaos depth knob and produces the widest variety of sounds.

Size: 28cm x 17cm

Power: 9v battery or standard 2.1mm power supply socket.

The copper panel will tarnish and go brown over time."

Emu Emulator III vintage synth sampler

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"Emu Emulator III with 1GB compactflash card installed that replaced the original HD. Running the latest firmware v2.00 and software v2.42... his auction includes a mac laptop running alchemy 3.0 sample editor with it's cables.

An external cdrom drive + SCSI cable, boot disk with O.S 2.42.

And the complete EIII sound library vol. 1 - 8 on cd rom + EIII state of the art studio library.

The Emulator III is a 16-voice, 16-bit, polyphonic digital sampling keyboard, which uses a National 32016 main CPU, clocked at 10MHz.

The EIII can be entirely controlled by computer software which is loaded from disk when it is powered on.

The EIII kept with the overall EII design, using a micro controller for sample access, a main CPU and a scanner CPU (Rockwell 6502 processor with 192 bytes of RAM! - as used in the Emax II)."

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