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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Vintage 80's Synsonics Drum Machine 5450 SN 727-4600 with Original Box
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"Synsonics Drum Machine (Model 5450) with Box and Accessories. This Synsonics "Drums" drum machine/synthesizer is in excellent working order and very clean (seems to have been never used). This machine was marketed as a toy, but can produce some really cool sounds with the tone wheel and other features, and has the audio outputs of a upper-level drum machines (1/4 in. headphone jack, stereo jacks, ACC jack, and input for a 9 volt DC power source -- was not originally included, nor included in auction) plus on-board speakers. Comes complete with original stereo cables, users manual, and Synsonic brand drumsticks. Original box with flip open window is included, but has some wear (creases, window is slightly loose, etc). This item, especially this model, is very hard to find with everything here, would be awesome for any collector of 80's/90's toys, but also an amazing instrument for any musician making new but rarely heard vintage beats..."
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Siel EX600 Expander Synthesizer
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"To program the sound, a Siel DK-600 or MIDI editor is needed..."
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Pics of the inside below.
"To program the sound, a Siel DK-600 or MIDI editor is needed..."
op-1 teenage engineering synthesizer with hard case
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"The battery lasts an extremely long time. The OP-1 on the Synthesizer is smudged due to a manufacturing defect. Other than that it works great..."
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"The battery lasts an extremely long time. The OP-1 on the Synthesizer is smudged due to a manufacturing defect. Other than that it works great..."
Coron DS8 Clone Analogue Synthesizer Drum
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"A solid & practical metal box. The spacey decals are a tough vinyl.
The base of the unit screws on with 6 screws & if powered by mains is ideally left in place. If you want to power it with a 9v battery, the base can be left off for easy access to change the battery. See the image of the internals from underneath. The base has felt pads on for a soft seating.
A brief explanation of controls etc.. The front panel pots from left to right....1. Sensitivity, adjusts the sensitivity of the trigger pad & determines how hard it needs to be struck.
2. Decay, Sets the length of the phrase/note, from a short sound to a long decaying sound.
3. Sweep, you can sweep the pitch if the vco for hands on effect.
4. Rate, The frequency of the modulation.
5. Mode, The shape of the vco.
6. Nz/Pan, Adjusts the amount of noise to be mixed with the output signal. (Linked to a switch on the rear of the
unit to select noise colour)
7. Level , The volume knob.
The rear panel from left to right.... 1. C.V in, control voltage in, 2. noize tone switch , 3. trigger input , 4. On/Off switch , 5. 1/4" jack output, 6. 9v dc power input."
The base of the unit screws on with 6 screws & if powered by mains is ideally left in place. If you want to power it with a 9v battery, the base can be left off for easy access to change the battery. See the image of the internals from underneath. The base has felt pads on for a soft seating.
A brief explanation of controls etc.. The front panel pots from left to right....1. Sensitivity, adjusts the sensitivity of the trigger pad & determines how hard it needs to be struck.
2. Decay, Sets the length of the phrase/note, from a short sound to a long decaying sound.
3. Sweep, you can sweep the pitch if the vco for hands on effect.
4. Rate, The frequency of the modulation.
5. Mode, The shape of the vco.
unit to select noise colour)
7. Level , The volume knob.
The rear panel from left to right.... 1. C.V in, control voltage in, 2. noize tone switch , 3. trigger input , 4. On/Off switch , 5. 1/4" jack output, 6. 9v dc power input."
Hackme Rockit Synthesizer
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"This is a handmade Rockit synthesizer designed by Hackme Electronics and built from their circuit board. It is a monophonic digital-analogue hybrid using two 8 bit VCO's through a digitally controlled analogue filter and VCA (with 2 LFO's thrown in for good measure). All parameters are directly controllable on panel (and via midi cc). It is powered by 6 x AA batteries (rechargeables are fine). It weighs 1.8kg.
http://hackmeopen.com/rockit-build-info/
Rather than use the standard Rockit case, I have housed the synth in a wooden box with brass front panel. All controls are securely attached to the panel rather than PCB mounted. Leaded solder was used throughout.
The controls are:
Back row
Drone switch, volume, on/off, midi-in, midi-thru, audio-in (to use filter and VCA), audio-out
Left block of controls (from back to front)
VCO1 waveform, VCO2 waveform, VCO mix, VCO2 pitch
A, D, S, R for VCA
Filter cutoff, filter resonance, filter ADSR depth, low/band/high pass filter selector
A, D, S, R for filter
Right block of controls
LFO routing matrix
LFO waveform, LFO rate, LFO amount, LFO sync
And at bottom are the patch save/recall controls..."
"This is a handmade Rockit synthesizer designed by Hackme Electronics and built from their circuit board. It is a monophonic digital-analogue hybrid using two 8 bit VCO's through a digitally controlled analogue filter and VCA (with 2 LFO's thrown in for good measure). All parameters are directly controllable on panel (and via midi cc). It is powered by 6 x AA batteries (rechargeables are fine). It weighs 1.8kg.
http://hackmeopen.com/rockit-build-info/
Rather than use the standard Rockit case, I have housed the synth in a wooden box with brass front panel. All controls are securely attached to the panel rather than PCB mounted. Leaded solder was used throughout.
The controls are:
Back row
Drone switch, volume, on/off, midi-in, midi-thru, audio-in (to use filter and VCA), audio-out
Left block of controls (from back to front)
VCO1 waveform, VCO2 waveform, VCO mix, VCO2 pitch
A, D, S, R for VCA
Filter cutoff, filter resonance, filter ADSR depth, low/band/high pass filter selector
A, D, S, R for filter
Right block of controls
LFO routing matrix
LFO waveform, LFO rate, LFO amount, LFO sync
And at bottom are the patch save/recall controls..."
Magic Ceramic Theremin Lamp Doepfer A-178
Uploaded on Nov 22, 2011 creativegallerysynth·19 videos
"The first test of the Magic Ceramic Theremin lamp. It is developed as a peculiar piece for the opening of the Exibition of several ceramists in Gallery Artibrak. from november until 28th of December 2011.
A theremin is normally stepless, but in this case an A-156 is used as a quantizer..
Small explanation for those who are not familiar:
In this magic piece of ceramic two antenna's are integrated. One antenna for the volume and one for the pitch. The instrument does not have to be touched. The volume can be controlled by your left hand (when approaching it the volume increases), the pitch can be controlled by your right hand (when approaching it, the pitch of the sound goes up). By approaching the antenna's you are influencing the potential difference. Just like the antenna of your transistor radio which functions well or not when approaching it.
The Magic Ceramic is based on the original Theremin invented by Léon Theremin in 1919. That electronic instrument is stepless variable and very expressive. It sounds like an opera voice or violin.
This ceramic version of the instrument has a much more variety than it's original. You can make the sound stepless or let it be quantized, so that you hear a real tonescale/musical scale. The sinus-tone of the Magic Ceramic is quantized (chopped in pieces), and in the way it is presented now only the Minor notes are heard. (like the black keys on a piano) In this way the steps between the notes are bigger and easier to distinguish. Other possibilities are just Major notes or the complete tonescale, quantized or not. There is also a small sampler added, so when you reach the highest note a spoken voice can be heard.
more info here:
http://www.creativegallery.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&a..."
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Serge Modular 2013 new years patch
Published on Jan 1, 2013 n3wt15·22 videos
"Thought I should start the new years off right with a new patch!"
"Thought I should start the new years off right with a new patch!"
Division 6 Eurorack Format Mattson SQ816 Sequencer Video
Published on Jan 1, 2013 matrixsynth·247 videos
http://www.division-6.com
http://mattsonminimodular.com
http://mattsonminimodular.com/wiki/index.php?title=Sequencer
As promised, here is the video from my visit to George Mattson's studio. George gives us an overview of the Division 6 eurorack Mattson SQ816 sequencer. You'll find pics here.
Analogue Solutions Telemark-K/Dirty Bass Done Dirt Cheap.
Published on Dec 6, 2012 via Robert Shipe·16 videos
"The incredible bass sounds of the Analogue Solutions Telemark-K/Oberheim SEM clone. Run through it's Notch Filter, sequenced with Ableton. AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" bass-line.
Gear:
Analogue Solutions Telemark-K, Mackie ProFX12 Mixer, BBE Sonic Maximizer, Lexicon MX200, M-Audio 610 FireWire/Octane Pre-Amps, Ableton Live, Tannoy/M-Audio Monitors and a Peavey Synth Amp."
via Bobby Shipe on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
"AC/DC. Dirty Bass Done Dirt Cheap. Analogue Solutions Telemark-K, Ableton, Peavey KB Amp, Tannoy/M-Audio monitors, Mackie mixer and Focusrite pre-amps. Dirtiest filter (Oberheim SEM clone) I've ever heard."
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