MATRIXSYNTH

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter

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Perfect Circuit Audio (RSS)

SN 511852

Alesis Fusion 6HD digital audio workstation

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"This is a very underrated keyboard. The Fusion 6HD was released in 2007 and kinda flopped. It originally cost close to £1,200. It seemed to be that folks did not like the layout and look of the machine and the presets took a bit of a beating from the critics ( I do not know why, some of them are totally amazing) it was right up against the Yamaha Motif and Roland Fantom (although the Alesis was a good bit cheaper). Alesis then discontinued it and sold off the existing stock for just under £700 which is what we paid for ours.

Now, people are realising just how good this workstation is and they are sought after once more. Of course, you cannot buy them anymore :-( The overwhelming reason why it is so popular is the fact it has a hard drive built in and 8 channels to record audio straight on to that hard drive. So you can record and load all sorts of audio and samples straight from the internal hard drive. This is a truly fantastic feature. But then if you run out of space on your hard drive, you can connect an external one to the SATA connector and have more space available.

It also has a direct USB connection for your PC so you can arrange banks and sounds via the superb editor that I will supply on CD. There is also a set of L & R Aux outs, a handy left and right input with gain control (ideal to connect your ipod / laptop / microphone etc), a headphone socket, midi in out and thru and three foot pedal inputs for expression, sustain and switch and a compact flash card socket for saving and loading patches, songs, etc.

Then, Hollow Sun created a huge library of extra sounds and they are truly stunning. Then a very wonderful guy sampled the 'Vox Humana' preset from his Polymoog keyboard (Gary Numan - Cars and loads of other songs on The Pleasure Principle and Telekon) and all of a sudden the true power of the Fusion was realised."

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VINTAGE HAMMOND SOLOVOX

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"RARE HAMMOND SOLOVOX TONE CABINET- KEYBOARD INCLUDED (NOT PICTURED) THESE ARE EARLY HAMMOND ANALOG SYNTHESIZERS! SOLOVOX KEYBOARD WILL FLUSH MOUNT TO YOUR HAMMOND ORGAN OR PIANO(?)! THIS UNIT IS UNTESTED."

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Maplin 5600 vintage analogue synth

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"If you have found this auction then you probably know what the 5600 is, what it is capable of and why many people love them ( and its smaller brother the Maplin 3800, and its cousin, the ETI4600 )... Every now and then during lunchtimes I would plug the 5600 into my test bench at work and wonder how the hell it worked. What is this patch board thing ? What kind of a computer can I connect it to ? Why are my work mates laughing at me scratching my head with this thing whilst they brag on about their Korg M1 and its wonderful on-board sequencer ?

After many lunchtimes spent cursing it started to make some interesting noises. The cones on my bench loudspeakers would wobble furiously while the ports chuffed like a steam trains chimney!"

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Moon Modular 568P Programmer Extension Module

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"Manufacturer Description:
The M568P programmer module is an extension to the M568 Quad Sequential Trigger Source. Now the 2x12 Sequencers/sequence-combinations can be saved to memory for later recall.

The non-volatile memory consists of two memory bands with 12 memory slots each. They are selected by the toggle switch "Memory Bank" and the 12-position rotary switch "Sequence Memory". Pushing the "Recall" button activates a saved sequence.

The "visible" sequence is being hold in an edit-buffer, a sort of "zero"-memory position - so nothing will get lost when switching the module on and off. Only when a memory slot gets recalled the edit buffer is overwritten (therefore there is no automatic recall of the dialed memory position when the module is turned on).

To save an adjusted or modified sequence, push the "Save"-button (Save-LED blinks), select the desired memory position and push the "Save"-button again (Save-LED dies out, sequence is saved).

To erase an adjusted or modified sequence, push the "Clear"-button (Clear-LED blinks), select the desired memory position and push the "Clear"-button again (Clear-LED dies out, sequence is erased)

To duplicate the adjusted or modified sequence or to move it to a different memory slot, push the "Copy"-button (Copy-LED blinks), select the desired memory positions and push the "Save"-button (Save-LED blinks), select the desired destination memory-position and push the "Copy"-button again (LEDs die out). The sequence is copied now.

The buttons/jack combination under the "Go to" in the lower port of the module the next and previous memory slots can be recalled - using the respective push buttons or trigger pulse.

To download the manual for this module, please click here"