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Modular Punk. Makenoise Rene/Pressure Points.

"Makenoise Rene clocked by an old drum machine. Working on a track for the next Duddley Fogg gig."

Kraftwerk’s Casio “Pocket Calculator” Preset Settings

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If you have a Casio Electronic Calculator, give it a try.

Industrial Records Studio 1980 - Serge Modified Casio MT30

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"Industrial Records Studio 1980

One of a couple of very rare shots of my equipment at the Industrial Records studios in Hackney, London - sometime in 1980.

Roland SH-7 Synth
Roland CSQ-600 Digital Sequencer
Roland TR-808 Drum Machine
Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo (flight-cased)
Roland 181 Controller Keyboard
Roland 100M 190 containing two 182 Analogue Sequencers
Roland 100M 191-J containing various Roland modules
Roland 100M 191-J containing self-built Digisound modules
Roland 100M modules x2 freestanding
Seck 6-2 mixers x2
Self-built Digital Delay
Self-Built 11-Band Graphic Equaliser
Self-Built dual phaser/flanger unit
Boss BF-1 Flangers x2
Boss KM-4 Mixer
Boss MA-1 Mascot Amp
Accessit Spring Reverb
TEAC Cassette Deck
JVC Amplifier
JVC Portable Pro cassette deck

TG EM Box Flight-case containing:
Eventide Harmonizer
Self-built Harmonizer sample trigger controller
Serge Modified Casio MT30 keyboard
Boss DS1 Distortion
Boss BF1 Flanger
Boss CE1 Chorus
Boss KM-04 Mixer
BOSS MA-5 Micro Monitor"

Also see Chris at Industrial Records Studio 1980

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PNW Synthfest 2011 Pics by v8media

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TOM 1501 RARE VINTAGE USSR SOVIET ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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"It's a string machine with 5 preset sounds: Piano, clavesin/Harpsichord, Alto, Violin and Brass. Alto and Violin are exactly same sound but violin is one octave higher than alto, so you can make "string orchestra" sound. Mainly I discovered this to be like Crumar Orchestrator/Multiman-s clone. Piano and clavesin/harpsichords are pretty identical sounding, but... Strings aren't typical "Italic" sounding which can be found on all crumar and some others string machines, Neither european (solina) or american (Moog opus) sounding. They are UNIQUE! They are FAT! They are WARM!..."

Tom-1501 - 61-note (F-F) string / brass / piano multi-keyboard. This one reminds Crumar multi-keyboards. Nearly all controls on sliders on sloping back panel. Splittable. Vibrato depth, speed. Brass filter AR, resonance and cutoff. Preset sounds, mixable, include piano, clavinet, orchestra (violin, alto, contrabass), brass. Chorus. Piano has separate out. Made at the Tula factory. Size: 920 x 360 x 195 mm. Weight: 13 kg

PANEL PARAMETERS:

- VOLUME: phones level, 5-din out
- VIBRATO (LFO): depth, rate, tuning
- VOLUME GLOBAL: strings, bass (+on/off), piano
- BRASS-FILTER: attack, decay, resonance, cutoff
- LEFT MANUAL: piano, clavichord, alto, viola, brass (+on/off)
- STRING ENSEMBLE: timbre level, orchestra (chorus) on/off
- RIGHT MANUAL: piano, clavichord, alto, viola, brass (+on/off)
- SUSTAIN: level ; POWER on/off
- CONNECTIONS (5-din): pedal in, mono out, stereo out (brass left, pno-strings right), piano out; 220V power socket, fuse, ground.

Tom-1501 provides very impressive analog sound, it is convenient for modeling of really fat strings and warm pads, classic brasses and horns, old space leads, vintage piano sounds, layered combinations etc..

Some examples of how it really sounds:
http://ruskeys.net/eng/base/1501tom.php#sn"

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Vintage Korg Micro Preset Analogue Synth

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"Controls
Volume control / power switch
Pitch tune
Attack
Sustain
Modulation rate / lfo
Vibrato
Travel Vibrato - Filter control from the LFO
Modulation depth
Portamento
LFO random and repeat
Portamento Momentary - off - on