MATRIXSYNTH

A Minimoog D Saved From Fire & Juno the Main Coon Kitten

via Jorge: "This is Juno my new Maine Coon Kitten sitting on my Prized Minimoog D.

A little Background about my Mini.

Almost 2 years ago I got this Mini From Craigslist Virginia, Funny thing though is that the guy that had it happened to go to the same High School I went to in the early 80’s.

He said he got it when he worked at Venamin’s Music in Springfield VA, working as a manager in the 80’s. This Mini Spent most of its life in his Basement studio and survived a fire that burned the entire house down except a closet that was in his basement where the Mini was stored in an Anvil case.

When I got it, It was in fair shape but I was determined to make look and play like new. I had all the electronics restored and had the wood case professionally refinished. I was even able to replace both the Mod & Pitch wheels with NOS from Mike Bucki, he even had an Original Moog sticker from the 70’s that went in the back of the Mini.

All I can say now is that This Mini is one of my favorite synths in my studio it plays and sounds wonderful."

Here are a few pics.

Flohmarkt Synthesizer Heap [Synths at a Fleamarket]

flickr By chaircrusher
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What a sight that would be.

via kent back in 2007: "There was a guy selling a pile of synths and odd drum machine stuff at the MauernPark Flohmarkt (Wall Park Flea Market) in Berlin this last Sunday."

If you're wondering why it took five years to put this up, I changed my email address from the matrixsynth.com domain to gmail years ago. Some stuff apparently came in on that old address that I missed. The previous posts from J chot (1, 2, 3) and makingsound where some of them. This one should be the last though. If you have my old matrixsynth.com address still saved, you might want to update it at this point. :)

Gakken SX-150 Ribbon Synthesizer, Modified

via this auction

"I have this one modified with a CV or control voltage input, which I used with an Arduino in order to play it using a MIDI keyboard. That might sound fairly crazy, but if you look online, there are instructions for much more than that. I also modified it to have a mono 1/4" jack output, which is the same as what a guitar output is. This makes the thing more useful as an actual instrument.

I also hacked on a jack for a 7.2v radio controlled car battery, as I have a bunch of them sitting around, they're fast to charge, and something like this runs forever off of a battery like that. The bottom of the synth is open, so if you don't want the battery jack, you can just snip it off.

Also included is the magazine that the synth original came with. Lots of interesting photos, but almost all in Japanese."

"More information:

DIN SYNC blog
MIDI Modification

Crazy modification by Gijs Gieskes
electro-music.com
technabob.com"

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Roland Jupiter 4 + Roland Jupiter 6 "Phatt Bass Arps"

YouTube Uploaded by synthartist69 on Jan 11, 2012

PPG Waveterm A + EVU Expansion Voice Unit for Sale

via this auction

"PPG EVU Expansion Voice Unit module

This is the "brains" of a PPG Wave 2.3: Classic vintage 8 voice wavetable synth; digital oscillators for complex waveforms; warmed up with rich analog filters [8x Curtis SSM 2044 VCF chips], designed by Wolfgang Palm, used by famously by David Bowie, The Fixx, Trevor Horn, Jean Michel Jarre, Art of Noise, Rush, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Robert Palmer, Psychadelic Furs, Talk Talk, The Cars, Ultravox, Steve Winwood, Rush, Stevie Nicks, Thomas Dolby, Pet Shop Boys, Mike and the Mechanics, and Stevie Wonder.

If you already have a PPG Wave with an active PPG Bus, the unit will work directly, but won't work with MIDI until you or a technician complete

When complete, you can sample with the Waveterm-A, edit the sounds via MIDI over sysex and dump wavetables back and forth from computer to EVU and Waveterm-A.

However the buyer should know:

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Double Andore test (#4)

"... sans manual, the learning curve of The Harvestman's Double Andore module (essentially two AD / AHD envelope generators & two VCA's with HEAPS of cross-modulation & routing possibilities & several pre-programmed wave-shapes on a set of digital voice-boards) is significantly steeper than most (save for the MakeNoise Maths, with which it shares some functional similarity / complexity, even if they sound/work in COMPLETELY different ways) ; watch as i fumble through discovery, arbitrarily twisting knobs until it starts sounding like "music" (i kid, i watched the Trash Audio video about 15x just now & even made a little "map" in my notebook) ...

This video was shot with a Canon Digital Rebel T2i (with the macro lens) hovering about 6 feet above the synth ; audio was piped directly out of a Radial Stereo Direct Inject box into the stereo "mic" input of the camera (hence the overall dynamic awesomeness) ..."

I was trying to figure out what the repeating sound that comes in at about 9 seconds reminded me of.
Here you go:

"Teddy Bear," the porcupine, doesn't like to share...

At :47 - "It's my cob!" Don't miss him in his Santa hat, in the thumbnails after the video ends.

Tinysizer, Juno 60 Minerva, Perfourmer MK2

YouTube Uploaded by zaphid on Dec 22, 2011

Vermona Perfourmer MKII

YouTube Uploaded by zaphid on Jan 11, 2012

"little jam with the perfourmer mkII and SP12 turbo (standard drums)"

Vermona perfourmer mk2

Uploaded by zaphid on Dec 16, 2011

"Deze video is ge�pload vanaf een Android-telefoon."

Zaphyd - Maplin 3800 Analog Synthesizer

Uploaded by zaphid on Jan 15, 2011

"Modified Maplin 3800: patchpoints, Midi installed and via midi velocity sensitive and aftertouch routings to aftertouch cv, computer installed with 2 digital lfo's and 2 digital envelopes. 5 different waveshapes per lfo with programmable delay and fade out. Standard adsr envelopes (env 2 bipolar). Improved eq board and low noise vca + extra vca. Computer functions and commands can be selected by pressing keys on the Maplin."