"This is the one-of-a-kind Syndrum Quad, the hard-to-find first electronic drum made famous by the likes of David Robinson of The Cars, Terry Bozzio, Roger Taylor of Queen and many others. If you've found this, you know what this is and the unique sounds it makes that you can't find anywhere else. The Quad was the most famous of the Syndrums models.
This piece of electronic drum history has recently been tested and works perfectly. As you'll see from the photos, the pads show foam on them from being in storage the last 20 years. I chose not to clean them up after testing the rig, I will leave that to the new owner. Some of the sliders are missing their caps, but this doesn't affect their function. Because the pads use a typical 1/4-inch plug, you could use different pads if you choose, such as Roland PD-8s.
"The Omni is an analog synth with preset Orchestral String sounds. It has polyphonic Violin and Viola waveforms as well as monophonic Bass and Cello waveforms. It is split into 3 sections: Strings, Synthesizer, and Bass synth - all simultaneously available. It has traditional and simple VCA, VCF, and LFO controls for contouring your sounds as well as a nice chorus that really thickens up the string sound. It has no program memory."
"As it turns out Chris [Muir] worked on the design and manufacture of the SMS synths back in the day, and this was his personal system. Nowadays it gets a little bit neglected in favour of the Buchla, but it sure looked pretty. SMS's most successful product was the Voice 400, pictured at the bottom."
If you are not familiar with the Mungo Enterprises State Zero synthesizer, see the Mungo label at the bottom of this post. Update: this synth was announced around Winter NAMM 2010 and had an estimated street price of $12,000. http://mungo.com.au/
A characteristic sound of the State Zero synthesiser, a symphony of PWM and sawtooth symmetry modulation spread across the stereo field by 4 envelopes and 2 LFOs cross modulating many many parameters.
Mungo Enterprises - SyncZ
Uploaded by MungoEnterprises on Aug 14, 2011
"Demonstration of SyncZ device. Sequence of events:
1. Sync to RM1x Master
2. Start TR606 slave
3. Stop RM1x Master
4. Restart RM1x Master
5. Stop and unplug TR606 slave
6. Start Cubase Slave
7. Stop and Restart RM1x Master
8. Stop Cubase Slave
9. Restart Cubase Slave
10. Stop and power off RM1x Master
Now its possible to start and stop both the slave and master in a midi stream. The impossible made possible by Mungo Enterprises."
