MATRIXSYNTH

Roland Jupiter 80 by Tatsuya Nishiwaki.webm

YouTube Uploaded by tedjaprasetya on Oct 12, 2011

"Roland Jupiter 80 " The Great Red Spot " by Tatsuya Nishiwaki"

Thomas Ankersmit at Lampo - 2/25/12

YouTube Uploaded by LampoVideo on Feb 26, 2012

"New 4-channel work from Thomas Ankersmit. Presented by Lampo in partnership with the Graham Foundation."

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via marc

MODULAR DIY EURO FORMAT POWER STRIP PCB

via this auction

"SPECS:
(14) 16 PIN IDC LOCATIONS
*THERE ARE MULTIPLE SOLDER HOLE LOCATIONS ALLOWING YOU TO DAISY MORE OF THESE POWER STRIPS. YOU CAN ALSO USE A 16 PIN RIBBON CABLE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SOLDER JUMPER CABLES TO DAISY CHAIN.
*THERE ARE LOCATIONS TO USE SMT SPADE CONNECTORS
*THERE ARE (2) LED LOCATIONS TO SIGNAL + AND - VOLTAGE IS WORKING FINE.

HERE IS A MOUSER BOM:
http://www.mouser.com:80/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=bf7d1add77

HERE ARE PICTURES OF THE PCB. DIMENSIONS ARE 10"X 1.250"."

70's ORIGINAL PAIA GNOME MICRO SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"[from an interview with John Simonton, PAiA Electronics, Inc.]
"While it started out as purely an electronic instrument to make wind sounds, the Gnome turned into one of the smallest, most portable analog synthesizers ever manufactured." [It was also battery powered.]

'The Gnome started out as an instrument that wasn't going to do anything more than make the sound of wind - not like a flute, but real wind. Ssssshhhhew. That kind of wind, which could be played with a little vinyl controller strip that was part of it. The Gnome was one of those things that just grew. After the instrument that did the wind sound was done, it became pretty apparent that you could stick other components in there and essentially come up with a small synthesizer, a thing that captured the central ideas of voltage-controlled synthesis at the time - Oscillators, filters, transient generators, and so on - but stripped down to the essentials or the core. It was an attempt to get rid of that keyboard that was always by far the single most expensive part of anything we made, by order of magnitude or more.'"

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