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DEVOBOTS DEVO Synthesizer on Kickstarter

On Kickstarter.
This one in via Lorne Hammond aka kidtronic.

Snip for the archives:

"MECHANICAL MAN IS YOUR FREEDOM OF CHOICE :

This is the first ever DEVO App utilizing one of the most influential bands of the last 40 years. The App includes never-before-heard music and sounds remastered from the DEVO archives that you can use to create new music plus thousands of artistic assets that you can utilize to create your very own DEVOBOT Robot, digital or Vinyl. This is the DEVO App that fans have been waiting for.

KIT ROBOT in collaboration with DEVO:

DEVO Modular Synthesizer featuring unreleased Devo music & sounds from their archives, coupled with a Devo Robot Maker: A TWO in ONE App Available for your device...

The Story:

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Lexicon 200 and Linn 9000

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by SynthManiaDotCom

"The Lexicon model 200, a great-sounding, classic reverberator from 1984. Driven by the Linn 9000, a classic drum machine of the '80s, pinnacle of the Linn series and predecessor of the MPC-60."

FOLKTEK ARTS One Million Dollar Synth The Impossible Box Update

via FOLKTEK ARTS where you'll find more pics. You might remember this one from this previous post. Be sure to see Folktek on eBay (RSS) for some other unique creations currently listed.

Details captured for the archives:

"It's been a long time coming and a busy summer but it's time to shed a little light on the impossible box.

I made this for myself in consideration of the fact that after making instruments and inventing oddities for ten or twelve years or whatever it's been, I was never really capable of having my own works for making music/playing with sound. So in January of last year I started compiling a list of works I've created that I've always wanted to be able to consistently work with - to get back into music with. Initially the list was a few things (a time machine, a garden, some drum synthesis and sequencing, etc) but in further consideration it occured to me that I'd be happier making multiples of those things, diving into new realms, expanding on sequencing and so on. Eventually the list was admittedly a bit out of control but rather than crossing off a few ideas, I said fuck it and went for it.

At first I was uncertain about exactly how it would all work together and I spent a solid month agonizing over all of it, drawing plans and even dreaming about the details so that when I woke I was able to write it all out. It was terrible, honestly. I was also not so confident in my woodworking skills and the box was a bit beyond me but I pieced away at it and it all worked out nicely.

The project took a year to "complete", though there are still a few things I'm working on before I can call it a done deal. It was more work than I had ever anticipated, it came out larger and more full of sound than I had considered and in the end I couldn't be happier.

details;
The folding box is oak with walnut splines - measuring about 4' wide with each inner panel (lower and upper) at 2' deep, essentially making a 4' square if it were all laid out.

Each module panel is done with player piano music paper and labeled on my Corona typewriter. This took a helluva lot of planning. The modules are also all lined with brass and I created almost all of the switches, keys, lamps and buttons.

the modules;

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Flagship Waldorf Wave Wavetable Synthesizer for Auction

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via eBay DE

"Waldorf Wave Shadow (Darth Vader) in near mint condition.This Wave has features like probably no other.

Shadow Version (Darth Vader) only ca. 10 Pieces build of!!!

16+ Voice Expansion, so it has 32 Voices(normal one has only 16 Voices!!)

76er Keyboard(normal Version has only 61 Keys!!)

Manual

Originalcase

Disks with 1000-1200 Sounds

It was on service last year(new gas springs,Tuning etc)It was only in climate, non smoking studio!

Probably the last chance to get this piece of Synthesizer History in such a condition..."

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Demential Labs Circuit Bent "MISSION CONTROL" SYNTHESIZER

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YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by SuperRoss007

via this auction

See this post for two additional videos.

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Circuit Bent Casio SK-8A Arabic Sampling Keyboard

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via this auction

"Doubt there are many of these around, it has the normal SK features but extra sliders for arabic scales and a whole loads of switches that glitch it up and make crazy lo fi sounds..."

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9U Doepfer Modular Synthesiser with Sequencer

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via this auction

Korg Mono/Poly minus keys in the 3rd pic.

"Here's what you get:
9U wooden case with power
A-163 VC frequency divider (can be used as a variable octave sub oscillator or clock divider)
A-196 Phase locked loop (a sort of frequency tracking oscillator whose sound changes depending on it's state)
A-167 Comparator (can make PWM from a triangle wave as well as other obscure uses)
A-106-1 Xtreme filer (HPF/LPF based on the legendary Korg MS-20)
A-134-1 VC panner/cross fade
A-188-1 VC analogue delay (1024 stage BBD)
A-188-1 VC analogue delay (4096 stage BBD)
A-156 Voltage quantiser (makes tuning the sequencer trivial or can be a sort of arpeggiator if fed variable voltages)
A-155 Dual channel step sequencer
A-154 Sequencer controller (adds loads of features to the sequencer)
A-150 Dual VC switch (can combine the channels of the sequencer into 16 step sequences)
A-106-6 16-mode filter (LP, HP, BP, BR, AP with different slopes and resonance characters)
A-119 External input/follower (can allow an external instrument to be processed and produce trigger/modulation voltages)
A-110 Oscillator
A-180 Multiples
A-132-3 Dual VCA
A-185-1 Bus access/ buffered multiples
A-138 4-channel mixer
A-140 ADSR envelope generator
A-114 Ring modulator
Tiptop Audio Z5000 24bit Multi-effect DSP (reverb, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, pitch shifter) http://www.tiptopaudio.com/z5k.php
Blanking panels"

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