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Vintage MAM VF-11 11 band Vocoder

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"The VF-11 is an 11-band analog vocoder from German company MAM (Music And More). A vocoder lets you create robotic vocal effects. You basically feed two sounds into it, the sound you want to process (Synthesis Input) such as a synth lead or synth pad, and the sound that will do the vocoding (Analysis Input) such as your voice or a drum loop.

The Analysis input has mono Mic and Line inputs. The signal you plug in here will be separated into 11-bands which cover a frequency range of 50Hz to 12kHz. The unique frequency spectrum of the analysis input sound will have different amplitudes at each of the 11 analysis bands. So a low frequency specific sound will generate lots of voltages in the low frequency bands, but very little to no voltages among the higher frequency analysis bands. The amount of voltages generated by these bands depends entirely on the harmonic content of the Analysis sound input.

Voltages generated by these analysis bands go on to control up to 11 Envelope Detectors on the Synthesis channel. The Synthesis channel is also split into 11-bands and each band passes through a VCA envelope controlled by these Envelope Detectors. The end result is that the Synthesis input's envelope is generated by the harmonic content of the Analysis input sound.

The VF-11 has its very own, albeit very simple, analog VCO to use on the Synthesis channel in lieu of external audio. This oscillator offers only a sawtooth waveform with a simple pitch adjustment knob. The VF-11 has only a mono output which can output the processed or unprocessed signals. The VF-11 can also function as a filterbank! Plug a sound to the Synthesis channel, and nothing into the Analysis channel. Then you can adjust the gain of each of the 11 bands. It isn't resonant, but it works. The VF-11 is analog and affordable. There's no MIDI or memory and you'd need two of these to process stereo audio."

Grey Roland/ SH-101

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Simmons Clap Trap - Handclap synth - Rare Digital Analog Hybrid

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"The controls are - Clap, pitch and length (knob for each). This is the digital side - the sample is produced by a ceramic clip as found in other Simmons gear (SDS7, SDS9 and so on). Not the crazy ear splitting-ly crisp reproduction of todays standers. But a more smooth, full ranger sound from the dawn of "samples". On the analog side you have - Noise, pitch and length (knob for each). Soloed the Noise makes a nice snare sound. That brings us to the balance knob and Volume (also work as the on/off). You can 100% clap and 100% noise with a hard pan of the balance knob.The Auto, push button and Auto speed knob control a metronome that fires the unit at intervals. On the back it has inputs and outs for Foot pedal, Synth or it can be trigger by a 80's drum pad or even a sequencer (Simmons MTM works too. any gate will do). You can fire it with a push button on the top, the "trigger" button. Nice action on this button for live use (not hard to push or sticky). The Humaniser varies the pitch just a tiny bit every time you trigger the unit so you do not get "machine gun" effect. Unless you dig that effect, then turn it off to sound like a robot. Sounds amazing!"

KORG PSS-50 PROGRAMMBLE SUPER SECTION

YouTube Uploaded by ebishide on Mar 22, 2010

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"Program Your Backup Patterns and Chord Progressions - a Valuable Assistant for Practice, Recording, and Composing. It's like having your own session musicians ready to play along with your songs and arrangements. The PSS-50 lets you program both the backing pattern (drums+bass+ strings, brass, piano, etc.) and chord progression. You can then play it back to try out different arrangements, make demo tapes, or simply practice your instrument. The forty eight built-in backing patterns include 4, 8, and 16-beat, as well as fusion, reggae, disco, ballad, and many more. Each is amazingly realistic and has its own exciting original arrangement. Since you arefree to arrange the three parts in each backup pattern as you like, you have a possible variety of 100,000 new and different combinations. With the song writing function you can change the backup pattern and chord progression a bar at a time (or even at every half measure for chord changes). The PSS-50 will store eight of your songs for automatic playback. Add breaks and endings just the way you want them. The drum section uses digital storage technology to give you real drum sounds that are a far cry from an ordinary rhythm box. Songs can be linked for continuous play or to handle longer compositions. The tape interface permits infinite song data storage. Other features include external input jack (for mixing with guitar, keyboard, etc.) built-in stereo effect, stereo drum output with fixed array, drum-stick lead-in, and more."

Evolution UC-33 MIDI CONTROLLER

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"The UC-33 is the affordable, easy-to-use remote USB controller for any computer music system or MIDI setup. It allows instant and simultaneous control of up to 47 different parameters-and with 33 memory locations, changing setups is fast and easy. The powerful Snapshot feature instantly makes all controllers live for real-time, on-the-fly editing, and the unique Control Mute function mutes the output of all controllers, allowing users to position them before tweaking, thereby preventing parameters such as filter cut-off or amplitude levels from jumping abruptly during performance. The unit also features a drawbar mode for the sliders, which greatly enhances the experience of playing virtual instruments such as Native Instruments' B4 virtual Hammond organ. Use the UC-33 with a conventional MIDI setup, for live performances, or as a remote control for your existing studio rack. 30 pre-configured presets allow immediate control of the most popular virtual instruments and host applications like Reason, Live, Logic, Cubase SX, Native Instrument's B4 and more.

The unit also ships with 5 color overlays for the front panel customized for popular software programs such as Ableton Live, Pro-53, B4 and a general Mixer Channel Strip plus a blank which users can tailor to their personal setup needs.

Free Enigma Editor/Librarian Software
This product includes the free download and full registration of Enigma - a powerful software editor/librarian for Mac and PC that lets you easily program, store and load setups for M-Audio and Evolution USB MIDI controllers. Enigma includes a huge library of files for your favorite VST plug-ins, instruments and host apps. Programming is as simple as dragging the software parameter you want to control onto the graphic representation of the controller on your screen. With Enigma, your library of controller presets is virtually unlimited.

FEATURES

47 assignable MIDI controllers
24 knobs, 9 faders, 14 buttons
33 memory locations
drawbar mode for clasic organ emulators
presets and panel templates for popular software"

M-Z3R0 - circuit bent yamaha pss170 (part 2 of 2)

YouTube Uploaded by manufacturedZ3R0 on Sep 26, 2011
part 1 here
"Second part of the pss170 vid.

It's been upgraded since part one with some processor glitching and a drone switch.

Not quite a s pleasant to listen to as i just wanted to mess with the lfo and delay in the harsher side of what it can do.

I guess you'll either understand or you won't ;)"

New 2011 Remastered Vako Orchestron Discs - CELLO, FLUTE & VIBES

YouTube Uploaded by optigandotcom on Sep 26, 2011

"Now available at http://www.optigan.com/shoptigan

Now available for pre-order! A new release in our line of remastered Vako Orchestron discs, CELLO. It's unlikely that there will be sufficient demand to do a second run of 25 of these discs, so your best bet is to buy as many of these as you need while you can! Any future additional copies will most likely be done as one-offs, which are twice as expensive to produce, and thus will cost twice as much.

CELLO is remastered from the original Orchestron master tapes. Please excuse my awful playing here, which is just a quick noodle to demonstrate the sound!

PLEASE NOTE: This disc WILL NOT play properly in an Optigan! They WILL play, but the sounds will NOT be mapped correctly to the keyboard- they will be mapped mostly haphazardly across the chord buttons. Please don't order this disc expecting to easily use it in an Optigan. In the future we will be porting the Orchestron sounds to the Optigan- please be patient! :)

Stay tuned for more Orchestron discs, both new and remastered titles!"

New 2011 Remastered Vako Orchestron Disc - FLUTE

Uploaded by optigandotcom on Sep 26, 2011

"Now available at http://www.optigan.com/shoptigan

Now available for pre-order! A new release in our line of remastered Vako Orchestron discs, FLUTE. It's unlikely that there will be sufficient demand to do a second run of 25 of these discs, so your best bet is to buy as many of these as you need while you can! Any future additional copies will most likely be done as one-offs, which are twice as expensive to produce, and thus will cost twice as much.

FLUTE is remastered from the original Orchestron master tapes. Please excuse my awful playing here, which is just a quick noodle to demonstrate the sound!

PLEASE NOTE: This disc WILL NOT play properly in an Optigan! They WILL play, but the sounds will NOT be mapped correctly to the keyboard- they will be mapped mostly haphazardly across the chord buttons. Please don't order this disc expecting to easily use it in an Optigan. In the future we will be porting the Orchestron sounds to the Optigan- please be patient! :)

Stay tuned for more Orchestron discs, both new and remastered titles!"

vibes rev b demo

Update:

New 2011 Vako Orchestron Disc - VIBRAPHONE