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Monday, August 15, 2011
Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter with MPG-80 Programmer
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"This unit has the Version 4.0 software, and the serial number is higher than 511799, therefore it is the later version with Roland VCO chips, not CEM (they all have Roland Filter chips). Debate rages as to which sound better - I can't comment as I haven't A/B'd two units, but I do know that the later version corrects distortion that could occur at higher resonance settings in Unison mode, and at high Crossmod settings.
Comes with DIN cable to join the 2 units. Note that the MPG-80 does not have rack mount ears."
Roland Jupiter 6 With Europa upgrade
via this auction "This also comes with the Europa midi upgrade from synthcom. this was professionally installed by Steve Jones in Sydney.
The Jupiter 6 was Roland's first synth to don the then brand new MIDI protocol, and because of this the implementation was very crude and pretty much useless. a few years ago a company in the US went about rewriting the OP code for this particular instrument and produced an upgrade in the form of a new processor that basically completed what Roland started. With this upgrade installed, you get all the sounds, functionality and coolness of a 1980's analogue synth, but with all the convenience and compatibility of a modern synth."
Yamaha EZ-EG MIDI Guitar Keytar Ztar
via this auction "Marketed as "Learning Guitars", the Yamaha EZ-EG and EZ-AG are secretly a powerful instrument for controlling softsynths!
Besides their normal MIDI messages, these guitars also send out SysEx for each fret pressed and released. This allows us to create our own performance modes not originally found in the EZ-EG instruments.For those of you interested in pursuing alternate midi controllers...
Last year Yamaha released their "EZ" series of "learning guitars" -- guitar shaped devices with a fretboard full of backlit keys (to aid in learning chords) instead of strings. While these are marketed as learning guitars, their midi controller capabilies have been generally overlooked (even by Yamaha's own marketing dept). To the best of my ability, I will try to clear that up here. First off, the good news. This thing sends out a reliable and relatively expressive stream of midi data! Your host sequencer will recieve exactly what you played, with accurate velocity, no extraneous pitch-bends and no tracking delay. Hallelujah!
There are 72 very light action "keys", laid out in a fretboard pattern (12 frets x 6 rows). They depress very easily and light when pressed (handy for cleaning up your playing technique). All keys send midi note-ons ( 28-88 ) and are triggered by both fretting the notes and strumming the triggers (a set of bars on the body, laid out in six-string pattern). 
Hidden gem #1: fretting notes (no strum) sends out a very low velocity (vel=14) note-on. This sounds remarkably realistic using the onboard guitar patches, but is worth far more when used with synths or VSTi's. By varying your synths' velocity sensitivity you can add some expressive elements to your performances. Best of all, by lowering or eliminating velocity sensitivity you can play synths simply by fretting notes (no strum necessary). This greatly reduces stray notes, and is a feature found on Starr Labs midi controllers. 
Yamaha DD-50::_ Glitchy.Drums
YouTube Uploaded by ONhardwarehacking on Aug 15, 2011
"Yamaha DD-50::_ Glitchy.Drums
features_
Hardly Modified Midi Electronic Drummer + 28 Matrix Patchbay + Embedded Echo & Delay + Indicator LED´s
_On!
Rare Vintage Yamaha DD-50. Electronic Drummer with MIDI I/O, 4 Large and 3 Small Touch Sensitive Drum Pads. Sincronize glitchs & many inusual effects with external midi clock (hardware&software). Extremely glitchy!
Photo::
http://www.flickr.com/photos/onelectronics/sets/72157627312909735/"
Summer Chill - doctorvague ft. Peter D.B.
YouTube Uploaded by doctorvague on Aug 15, 2011
"This was a lot of fun! It was patched up very quickly and improvised in one take. My good friend Peter Dahl-Bredine is triggering samples in NI's Battery which I'm then filtering with a Megaohm Delta filter and a Rob Hordijk Dual Phaser. Everything: loops, samples, Korg Monopoly etc were all routed into and through the modular and mixed in real time to stereo track. Loops came from Stylus RMX and and were mixed at the modular with a custom MIDI controller I built (middle row far left with the 6 red buttons). Sync pulses were sent from MOTU's Volta and divided by a Moon Modular trigger sequencer. As usual, echo is from Modcan's fabulous stereo digital delay. Hope you all enjoy this. We want to do a lot more collaborating with real hand drums, guitar and... well, we have a lot of ideas.
© 2011 Phil Brown & Peter Dahl-Bredine."
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Korg,
MegaOhm,
Modcan,
Moon Modular,
Native Instruments,
Rob Hordijk,
Soft Synths,
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