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OBERHEIM OB-Xa Vintage 8 Voice with Original Box

via this auction

SN 520514

Vintage Thomas Bandmaster 55 Rhythm Synth Drum Machine

via this auction

"FEATURES:
On/Off Power Switch
Tempo knob with Downbeat Light
Rhythm buttons are as Follows: Downbeat Accent, Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Jazz Waltz, Foxtrot 2/4, Boogie 6/8, Swing, Rock, Watusi, Samba, Beguine, Cha Cha, Rhumba, Tango, Bolero, Bossa Nova
Drum Switches are as Follows: Duo/On/Off, Crash Cymbals, Brush Cymbals, Bass Cymbals, Snare Cymbals, Drum Cymbals, Bongo l, Bongo ll, Block, Clave, Castane l
Volume Knoband 10 Bush Button for downbeat and upbeat of the Drum Switches"

SN 1086583

Sold for $150.55.

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In-Line Effects DrumFire DF500 Analog Drum Synthesizer

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"These are getting harder to find as they have been out of production for a long time.

Similar to Vermona DRM, Simmons SDS and Tama Techstar line of drum synths. (Yes, I realize how broad that is :)

Each channel is identical with individual ins/outs and sensitivity, oscillator decay, noise decay, sweep, pitch, osc/noise balance, volume and pan controls.

Each channel also has a "click" function wich mixes the triggers click with the oscillator.

The unit also has stereo headphone outs, foot switch in and Stereo outs with individual level control."

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Modded ARP 2600 analog synthesizer

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"ARP 2600 synthesizer with ARP 3604P keyboard (serial #'s 26888 & 36888, respectively). Restored & customized with really useful upgrades by Tim Smith of Weyer-Smith Labs/The Audio Clinic in 1995. Do a Web search for "ARP 2600" for various descriptions of this popular analog synthesizer. The ARP 2600 was used by a wide variety of artists including Genesis (Tony Banks), Edgar Winter (on "Frankenstein"), Weather Report (Joe Zawinul), The Tubes (Michael Cotton) and many others.

After restoration, this unit sounded incredible. Upgrades, customizations & repairs included (see photos):
• replaced VCF wih 4072 filter (22kHz response), and added VCF input coupling modification to eliminated 'thumping' sound defect
• added +1/-1 octave switches for each VCO, and Multiples jacks
• added 4 mode envelope time extension modification for both ADSR & AR envelopes (X1-X5 modes)
• did "2600/3604/Oberheim" modification (CV1=standard; CV2=2nd voice)

• added 1/4" output jacks (above standard mini-jacks)
• modified reverb system for better response and 14 dB less noise
• added saw/square-wave form switches to each oscillator to eliminator patch cords for this common patch
• installed standard (IEC-type) power cable interface
• replaced op-amps with BurrBrown AP2604 audiophile components, and in voltage processor section to fix Lag offset tuning problems
• replaced keyboard interface cable and cleaned jacks & plugs, and repaired, calibrated, timed & tested keyboard

• rescaled & cleaned power supply, pots., sliders, etc., and replaced defective sliders"

Update: As always be sure to read auction descriptions on eBay in full. This one is being sold "As Is" and appears to have some issues. Thanks to sun butler in the comments for calling this out.

Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus MKI SN 850438

via this auction

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Logic Gate Trigger Processing via 1960s DEC Computer Lab

Logic Gate Trigger Processing by I Dream Of Wires
"Demo by Robert Fantinatto (/RUN): Gate signals from two different clock sources processed through a DEC Computer Lab Logic Trainer from the late 1960's, utilizing a series of flip/flop and Boolean logic gates to trigger envelopes on a Dotcom modular synth."

via I Dream of Wires on Facebook

http://www.indiegogo.com/I-Dream-of-Wires-film

HackMe Electronics Sprockit Mini-Synth

via HackMe Electronisc

"Rockit’s getting a little brother, Sprockit. My goal with Sprockit it to take a lot of Rockit goodness and compress it down to something smaller and a bit cheaper. I’m achieving both goals by having a very dense design and by reducing some of the features...

Sprockit will be fully open source just like Rockit.

Two oscillators – Just like Rockit, except there’s only one knob. I have initially made 32 oscillator settings which chooses both oscillator 1 and 2 and the oscillator mix at the same time. Oscillator 2 still has a detune knob.

4-pole Analog Low Pass Filter – Instead of Rockit’s three-mode filter, I’ve given Sprockit a 4-pole Low Pass only filter. I’m experimenting with automatic gain control, but I’m making no promises and there are some reasons not to have it. Filter envelope control is accessible externally. There is no external audio input like Rockit.

1 LFO with 3 waveshapes and 3 destinations, with more shapes and destinations accessible externally.

ADSR envelope with Attack and Decay control on board and everything else externally accessible

MIDI Input – No MIDI output."

Inside an Alesis Micron

flickr By deepsonic
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1973 DIY Modular Juan Bermudez Costa & Befaco

via Befaco where you'll find the post in Spanish. The following is a translation via Google (what's that about a tube of female sheep? paridas = ewes = female sheep?):

"This year we are again with a tremendous impetus. Our participation in Hangar Sound has crystallized in the transfer indefinitely its own space, a place for workshops and designing a tube all types of ewes.

In addition to our standard modular workshops (in Barcelona and Madrid), which also function as open days on topics of DIY advice sound, offer an advanced course in analog synthesis imparted by the very Juan Bermudez Costa (pictured, 1973!) , introduction to electronic noise (construction of a Mini-Theremin or analog touch micro battery), and construction of a monstrous unit of 'chorus' seventies style and 100% 'Made in Spain'.

All information in our section of workshops. We wait!"

If anyone has a better translation of paridas, let me know.