"I'm going to be doing a series of Malekko/Wiard XMIX patches for the holiday season.
First up is my version of the XMIX Ringmod Patch by Grant Richter:
uLFO Sine out to XMIX X in, X and Y attenuators turned all the way up. Set Switch to negative. Iphone (Sonic Youth - Tremens) headphone out to X MIX Z control in. Set Z attenuator to about 1 o' clock XMIX X out to soundcard."
(pics of the inside below)
via the listing/seller: "Up for sale is the ULTRA RARE Moog Minitmoog Preset Synthesizer... NOT VERY MANY UNITS WERE MADE & TO MY KNOWLEDGE ACCORDING FROM OTHER SOURCES ONLY ABOUT 10 UNITS ARE FULLY WORKING PROPERLY WORLDWIDE... Why..?? Because of the "Variable Capacitance" Touch Sensor Bar or After Touch Mechanism is not like any other synthesizer's after touch mechanisms. This one is based on a simple variable capacitance set up by the use of a semi-conductive material which is extremely hard to find and obviously in ALL of the Minitmoogs around the world have failed because that semi-conductive material has ceased to work because of the aging chemical reaction between all the other materials involved & the semi-conductive material. But I managed to source all the parts and materials needed exactly as it was used by the Moog Factory back then... Note to add up to this, I have owned several synthesizers with after touch most of them by variable resistance, etc but no other mechanism responds as neatly as this one with variable capacitance... Read later why...
"A quick comparison between Doepfer Dark Energy Mk I (CEM-based, just lopass w. lin fm) and Mk II (state variable filter, discrete circuit, etc.). Both machines under the same CV/Gate control from Dark Time step sequencer (courtesy of a bunch of multiples...). Mk I is panned more on Left audio channel; Mk II is more on Right audio channel. When they plays together, its a real GAS!!! :-)"
Demo of most of the stock patches. The Right Channel SID has a dead Oscillator (OSC 1), so the patches are not going to sound exact, but close enough. Couple of things to note, the loud pop when changing patches is the nature of the beast. Also the VCA bleed is inherent in all SID chips.
Effects used: Electro Harmonix Cathedral, Moog Moogerfooger MF-104M Analog Delay.
PSP Vintage Warmer V2 Compressor on Master Channel at mixdown."
"A rhythm patch using a Moon 590 bus as a trigger sequencer and mostly tube-based Zerosum Inertia modules as the sound source. Yes, you could do the same thing with your "bent" TR-505, but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun."
"Doepfer Dark Energy II under Dark Time sequencer control (sequence in random mode advance); some nasty audio rate FM modulation over Cutoff Frequency; some Filter Mode exchange while seq is running. No FX. Straight to digital out."
This one is based on a simple variable capacitance set up by the use of a semi-conductive material which is extremely hard to find and obviously in ALL of the Minitmoogs around the world have failed because that semi-conductive material has ceased to work because of the aging chemical reaction between all the other materials involved & the semi-conductive material. But I managed to source all the parts and materials needed exactly as it was used by the Moog Factory back then... Note to add up to this, I have owned several synthesizers with after touch most of them by variable resistance, etc but no other mechanism responds as neatly as this one with variable capacitance... Read later why...
