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Rob Papen plug-ins go standalone with RP-Dock

"ECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: virtual instrument and effects plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce availability of RP-Dock, a standalone Mac- and PC-compatible host application for all its current products, as of May 30...

Other than proving popular with an ever-increasing, diversified worldwide user base of music production professionals and amateurs, Rob Papen’s growing family of ear-opening virtual instrument and effects plug-ins all have something crucial in common: they cannot run as standalone products, but rather require a host DAW application to function. Or do they?

That was then, this is now. Today, thanks to RP-Dock, any Rob Papen product — from BLUE to Blade and any effects plug-in in between and beyond — can be freed from the confines of a DAW host application to run freely... perfect for playing live onstage or in the studio, or simply noodling with synth sounds and effects! The choice is out there for those music production professionals and amateurs alike.

According to George Michael’s programmer and co-producer, James Jackman, the multi-million-selling singer-songwriter superstar has been benefitting from Rob Papen’s namesake founder’s decades-long study of reverb by making much use of the stunning-sounding RP-Verb plug-in on his eagerly-awaited forthcoming album, for instance. Now it’s possible for him to use RP-Verb as a standalone reverb when working with a large-format mixing console courtesy of RP-Dock — software and hardware living in perfect harmony!

But Rob Papen being Rob Papen, there’s a whole lot more besides on offer here. In addition to its classic chromatic keyboard, RP-Dock boast several other handy onscreen features, including an audio recording/playback facility with selectable SAMPLE RATE ranging from 44.1 to 96kHz and MIDI INPUT to merge all connected MIDI controllers, plus MIDI CHANNEL selection and TEMPO setting.

Without question, then, RP-Dock is a user-friendly, flexible tool that Rob Papen’s ever-increasing, diversified worldwide user base benefits from full stop. But best of all, it’s free for all!

Mac (32-bit) and PC (32- and 64-bit) versions of RP-Dock can be downloaded directly for free from here: http://www.robpapen.com/rp-dock.html"

"About Rob Papen (www.robpapen.com)

Self-confessed synth freak and world-renowned sound designer Rob Papen started working with synthesizers at the tender age of 15 when purchasing an analogue Korg MS-20 semi-modular monosynth and accompanying analogue SQ-10 sequencer. Suitably inspired, he subsequently released several CDs as part of Dutch electronic music groups Peru and Nova — the latter featuring the same members as Peru, but with a more commercial slant — with whom he enjoyed number one hit singles in The Netherlands (Nova) in 1982 and Austria (Peru) in 1988. Peru disbanded in 1993, by which time Rob had already established himself as a sought-after sound designer, creating presets for the likes of Waldorf, Access, Ensoniq, and E- mu, before going on to found his namesake company in pursuit of creating a sound designer’s dream synth. That software dream soon became reality when Rob formed the RPCX (Rob Papen ConcreteFX) partnership with music software developer Jon Ayers to develop new Rob Papen virtual instruments and effects plug-ins, starting with BLUE — an exciting-sounding, self-styled ‘Crossfusion Synthesis’ affair (combining FM, Phase Distortion, Wave Shaping, and Subtractive synthesis into one powerful dream synth) — in 2005.Today Rob Papen soundware defines cutting-edge contemporary music production: powerful virtual instruments and plug-ins that intermix innovative design, uncompromising sound quality, and musical, production-grade presets to make tracks truly shine, whatever the musical genre... Inspiration Soundware, indeed!"

Monotron Delay Feedback

"Experimenting with the Korg Monotron Delay feedback. There are occasional short modular synth notes as an external sound source alongside some notes from the ribbon controller, and extra reverb from Logic 9."

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monotrons on eBay

soundmachines RB1 robotto Horde #1 is almost ready!!!!

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"Horde #1 is almost ready!!!!"

via Soundmachines on Facebook:

"It's a robotic singer! It's based on the Babblebot (or soundgin) chip. Similar to the speakjet but much more complex in sound design (other than allophones) than that. For this reason the firmware will be open sourced (Arduino) and everyone can modifiy the behaviour! Please check the manual on the website!"

Teisco Solina String Ensemble SN 0106663

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"Up for sale is Solina String Ensemble vintage analog synthesizer. As far as I know ARP was selling these for the US market, but it seems like this one was a rare model sold by TEISCO for the Japanese market with 100V. It still appears to be manufactured by B.V. Eminent in Holland."

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Dave Smith Instruments Mono Evolver Synthesizer SN 01105

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MFB Kraftzwerg Eurorack Module

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"The Kraftzwerg is a fully normalised patchable synthesiser in a eurorack module!

It offers:

2 lfos that are prewired to cross modulate each other, this prewiring can be overridden by inserting other signals into the patch points

3 Oscillators, there is a global cv control for each osciallator or they can be individually address, like wise there are individual outputs but all outputs can also be mixed together without patching to be sent to the Filter.

The filter a 24d/oct diode ladder type (AKA Moog filter)

The filter goes to a VCA

There are two ADSR envelopes

EACH part of the module can be used independently just like having separate modules or without any patch cords you can using as cool little monosynth or ANYTHING in between.

This a great starter module to build a system around, there is nothing that offers such good value. For some reason the eurorack version is no longer available so this is a rare chance to get a bargain."

1980 ARP SOLUS SYNTHESIZER PRINT AD

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Ad measures approx. 8"X 10.5" inches.

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks 8 bit digital drum machine

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"Sequential Circuits Drumtraks - SCI Drumtraks - (digital samples run through 2 x CEM 3320 analogue filters) with MIDI IN / OUT and Trigger OUT. UK voltage model.

1984 vintage 8-bit drum machine designed by the electronic music legend, Dave Smith, with MIDI and programmable Velocity and Tone...

Note on operating system

This has the all important v0.4 operating system which is the most suitable for using the Drumtraks with your DAW sequencer (see note below). Please check the second picture which shows DRUM 04 ROM and the sound ROMs.

From winecountrysequential (the world-renowned Sequential Circuits spares and repairs shop in the US):

Operating System ROM DRUM 0.4 offers:
OMNI and POLY modes over 16 MIDI channels
MIDI Pads-Out commands
Velocity sensitivity via MIDI.

This is the best version for using Drumtraks as a sound module with a MIDI sequencer."

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Sequential Circuits Six-Trak SN 001698

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