YAMAHA TX81Z SN OL02286 FM Synth

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Roland V-Synth Vsynth Version 2 SN 61294056875

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Green Soviet JUNOST-70

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Check out the wheel controls on it. It's not clear if this one is additive based or if the wheels adjust timbre. The description from ruskeys.net implies it's capable of more than just organ sounds as well: "Junost-70 is a multi-voice instrument. The voices can be changed, depending on the genre of a performed work and the will of a performer, with the help of knobs of the octave sound synthesis. In such a case, sounds from one or several octaves are added in different proportion to a basic sound, which makes it possible to smoothly vary a timbre colour over a wide range, providing sounds that are characteristic for various genres, from pop and folk music to organ works. It may be used as an accompanying or solo instrument, depending on the will of a performer. The device is equipped with a "glissando" unit, which is switched on by the button situated in the lower part of the case. The volume control is carried out with the help of a foot pedal."

If anyone knows what this is capable of, feel free to chime in.

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ARP 2600 Keyboard for Legendary Synth

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"- Sliders - a bit sticky but functional
- all slider caps and knobs intact and present
- internal circuitry very clean
- keys of keyboard: action feels as it did new.
- selling as is - for the vintage synth aficionado."

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YAMAHA SS30 Vintage Analog String Synth SN 2430

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Casio XW-P1 Unboxing

YouTube Published on Mar 29, 2012 by MrAj1aj1

"unboxing the new Casio XW-P1"

CASIO XW-P1 SOUNDS

Published on Mar 31, 2012 by MrAj1aj1

"Casio XW-P1 SOUNDS AND DRUM LOOPS"

Casio XW-P1s on eBay

Wednesday Jams with Lee-Ann Lovelace - "The Shape of My Heart"

YouTube Published on Apr 20, 2012 by lucyzeke12
First post featuring the Casio XW-P1 used in a live set.

"Lee-Ann joins drummer Eddie Bast of Pandemonium, along with Jimmy Hat bandmates Marc Brunetti (guitar), JP Philbin (upright bass), and Bryan Clark (keys), to cover Sting's "The Shape of My Heart" in this artsy warehouse jam."

You might recognize Lee-Ann from Wednesday Jams with Lee-Ann Lovelace & The Latest Packrat

DIY Meeting in Linz - University Of Arts (2012) - Snapshots

YouTube Published on Apr 20, 2012 by elohess2

"We had a workshop meeting in the university of arts in Linz (Austria) this week. This video is a compilation of snapshot I made during the meeting.

During the meeting I've made a workshop about 'Arduino' and 'Physical Comuting'."

Max Mathews Radio Baton Demonstration

YouTube Uploaded by ComputerHistory on Jul 16, 2010

"[Recorded: April 7, 2010]
In the late 1950s computer music pioneer Dr. Max Mathews created MUSIC, the first widely used music synthesis program while working in the Acoustic Research Group at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Over the next forty years at Bell Labs and then at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, Mathews advanced and refined digital computer music synthesis.
In this video Mathews describes and demonstrates his Radio Baton Controller and Conductor software program and performs brief selections by Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and Appleton.
A Radio Baton is an electronic instrument with two baton controllers and a receiving base called the antenna. In the end of each baton is a small radio transmitter. As the batons are moved over the receiving base, four antennas in the base are able to determine the batons' location in three-dimensional space. The movement of the batons through space are converted into instructions determining how the music is to be synthesized.
The Radio Baton Conductor Model uses the model of an orchestra conductor controlling the musical tempo, dynamics and expression of the piece. The Conductor program puts the pitches and the durations of the notes in a score that the computer reads as a sequence of beats in the computer memory. The conductor can move the batons around with his two hands, controlling six variables, and assign these variables to whatever functions in the music are important at any instant of the music.
When asked if the radio baton was a successful instrument, Mathews answered, 'I suspect actually it was too successful. It may have made music too easy to play. But my vision there, and the vision I think I got from John Chowning was that everyone could have his own orchestra and could interpret music according to his particular feelings about it. And that this might be a much more satisfying way than simply sitting and listening to a recording or simply listening to a concert in a concert hall.'"

via Computer Music Guide who has a small write-up on Max Mathews.

Roland System100m Drone - Another

YouTube Published on Apr 20, 2012 by nvanzoeren

"Another drone from my system100m.

Its just the system100m you hearing. I made a stereo patch and the left channel goes thru a Ibanez AD202 and the right channel is going thru a Ibanez UE405 of which i only use the delay. At the end of the signal i push it through a Fostex stereo spring-verb. The whole patch is build around 3 sounds. The first is a pink-noise thru the phaser and audio-delay to create the pseudo-stereo effect on it. The second sound is a ring-mod percussive sound which get triggers thru a gate-delay which makes it pretty unpredictable. And the last sound is the "melody" type of sound, build up from 3 oscillators on which each one has it own LFO on the CV-in. Giving each oscillator his own LFO was a idea i saw in the dwanatron.

Hope you guys enjoy it, so sit back, put on those headphones, press play, close your eyes and listen. Thanks"