1978 "June is Oberheim Month" Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the full write-up.

"Oberheim FourVoice and OB-1 1/2-page advertisement from page 197 in International Musician and Recording World June (UK)/July (USA) 1978."

Sequential Circuits Pro One Synthesizer

via this auction

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RC CIRCUIT BENT CASIO PT-100 KEYBOARD SYNTH / SYNTHESISER

YouTube Uploaded by djwidow420 on Mar 5, 2012
Resonance Circuits (RSS)

"MODIFIED CASIO PT100 WITH ADDED OVERDRIVE,BASS MAKER,ELECTRO FUZZ,SUBTLE HPF AND GLITCH VOICES"


via this auction

"THIS 1987 MULTIPULSE SQUAREWAVE BASED KEYBOARD CAN PRODUCE UNUSUAL GRAINY AND IMPULSIVE TIMBRES, WARPING BASS TONES AND ELECTRO GLITCH LEAD LINES

MODIFICATIONS

TOP ROW MODS, LEFT TO RIGHT:

BASS MAKER/OVERDRIVE CONTROL
provides extreme overdrive to all aspects of the synthesiser, when used with the casio chord function,producers excellent basslines

VOICE TWIST SWITCH
applies distortion and ring modulation style fx to the voices

GLITCH LEAD CONTROL
turns the chord melodies into electro fm noise

bottom row mods,left to right:

OVERDRIVE BOOST CONTROL

ELECTRO FUZZ SWITCH
adds a nice backdrop of fuzz great when used with the rhythms, as this will modulate in time

FILTER CONTROL
this provides a subtle hpf and works great when the other controls are used, as it allows you to shift and sculpt the overall output sound

RED LED ENVELOPE INDICATOR
provides a visual of the changing ouput sound, flashes in time with key presses and drum rhythms

1/4" JACK OUTPUT

ALL HOUSED ON QUALITY CIRCUIT BOARD CONTROL PANELS

internal speaker has been removed, to house modifications

KEYS HAVE BEEN PAINTED WITH THREE COATS OF QUALITY GREEN ENAMEL PAINT

ORIGINAL FEATURES
32 MIDSIZE KEYS
8 NOTE POLYPHONY
4 NOTE POLYPHONIC CHORDS
8 VOICES
8 DRUM LOOPS/RHYTHMS
VOLUME SLIDER/TEMPO CONTROLS/DEMO MODE
CHORD FUNCTION ON/OFF
POWER SWITCH
POWERED BY 4 1.5V 'AA' BATTERIES OR 6V DC INPUT"

devi ever Bit Mangler

YouTube Uploaded by devieverfx on Mar 5, 2012

http://www.deviever.com/fx/

Buckety update - March 2012

YouTube Uploaded by klc2002 on Mar 3, 2012

"Ken MacBeth, available for building top class synths - and playing at prog rock weddings and funerals! :-O"

Ensoniq ASR-10

First Moog Minitaur User Videos

MinitaurOne.mov

YouTube Uploaded by darksideothetune on Mar 5, 2012

"First test of the Moog Minitaur"

Moog Minitaur w/Slim Phatty Jam

Uploaded by edwardyc700 on Mar 5, 2012

"Just got my Moog Minitaur today, really exciting about this nasty instrument. Recorded with iphone, (plz excuse the quality) Having loads of fun with it! Moog for life~"

Skot Wiedmann of Motus Mavis Featured in Yahoo Design Expo

Innovative Tech Design at Yahoo Design Expo


Skot Wiedman comes in at 2:33 with his gestural touch controller. If you are familiar with his work, see the Motus Mavis label below and of course his website MotusMavis.com. He brought us the Star Shaped Modular featured in NAMM 2009 and one of my favorite knob styles that resembles a buzz saw imo. See the label below for more including video of the star shaped modular. Yahoo Design Expo video description: "A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those were some of the concepts on display at the recent Yahoo Design Expo. Originally conceived by Joy Mountford when she was at Apple, the event brings together out-of-the-box design ideas by students from around the world. In this video, the Mercury News speaks with Mountford, now vice president of User Experience Design at Yahoo, and demos some of the projects."

mystery_module.wmv

YouTube Uploaded by yerpa58 on Mar 4, 2012

"MakeNoise René quantized CV drives bassline, 2nd CV drives mystery module pitch. ModDemix does bass envelope, MATHS modulates mystery module Tension control and does bass (Doepfer A-110) pulse width mod."

Synthorama Synth Museum Switzerland

I visited the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Switzerland in 2008. I ran a number of posts featuring pics and video of the different synthesizer rooms. I just created a new Synthorama Matrix label for the posts. Feel free to check them out. You will be impressed by the museum. The posts remain unedited with the exception of bringing the video embeds up the larger 640 x 480 format.

Rare Clear Gleeman Pentaphonic

This one spotted by Alex on Ricardo.ch. This one is in Switzerland. The Swiss synth museum, Synthorama had one. You can see my pics from a visit here.

There's a black one listed on eBay US here. Note the built in speaker on the black one missing on the clear one here. Pics for that one captured here. See the Gleeman label below for more.

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