Featured Listings for May 2014

This post hosts all Featured listings that drop off the top of the site for the month. You'll find a link to previous months below. Many of these listings will obviously end in time and some will get re-listed (always check the listing). They will remain here as a record of what went up over time. For some, you can click on the image to see what they went for on eBay. Some expire from eBay and some expire from MATRIXSYNTH CLASSIFIEDS. This list only hosts some of the more interesting and unique items that have gone up over time, so be sure to check out the Auctions channel for everything else. You can of course search for any synth with "auction" in the search box on the top left of the site. If you click through the auction links you can see what items went for. You can also search by serial numbers to track the history of specific synths.



Featured Listings for April 2014

Rare Vintage Maas-Rowe Vibrachord Electronic Carillon Keyboard

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Here's something you don't see every day. This is the first Maas-Rowe post on the site. There was a UCSD Geisel Library Carillon posted here, but I am not aware if they are related.

Via the listing: "The Maas-Rowe Vibrachord is a rare electromechanical instrument made in the 1960s that was manufactured to emulate the sounds of a harp, vibraphone, and orchestra bells, so that piano and organ players could have such sounds at their fingertips. The keyboard triggers a set of solenoids, which launch striker pieces upward to play uniquely-shaped circular bell bars, the sound of which is then amplified through the Vibrachord's tube amp (which features tremolo) and accompanying speaker. The bells have a very sweet and round sound that is unique; if I were to associate it with the sound of another musical instrument, one most likely would say that a vibraphone sounds closest to its sound. It has five voices: celesta, harp, muted harp, vibrachord, orchestra bells, and features a volume-adjustable tremolo circuit and a sustain pedal system (not shown in pictures, but included). The instrument consists of the bell cabinet, an amplifier, a control panel unit, a keyboard, and a speaker cabinet.

This instrument also looks incredibly cool, thanks to the Moog-like keyboard with adjacent control unit and the matching colors of the bell cabinet and speaker cabinet. It has plenty of cabling, as this is a purely electromechanical (vs. electronic) instrument.

This instrument is in excellent functional condition. We actually put over $1000 of parts and labor into fixing this. These are impossible to find in fully functional condition. I've seen several for sale over the years, but never a working one. Keep in mind that if you have this shipped, it is possible that something could shift during shipment that might effect its perfect functionality, so please note that we can only guarantee its 100% functionality if you pick up in person. Otherwise we guarantee that it will arrive in great shape overall, but not necessarily perfect upon arrival. The $225 freight quote is for shipping this LTL, which is the safest economical mode of transportation.

Maas-Rowe is a manufacturer of electronic keyboard carillons, which are keyboard instruments that emulate the sound of church bells, so that a church does not have buy actual huge bronze bells to achieve a realistic sound from a bell tower.

The bench on which it sits in the pictures it is not original to it, but the color matches and we can throw it in for free if you pay for the additional shipping cost.

We'll include a copy of a Maas-Rowe bells/carillon catalog and a copy of a Schulmerich bells/carillon catalog for the winning bidder."

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FUJAKO in Pitoes

via Nyko van Ripito on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"last week recording session for FUJAKO in Pitoes, PT... set up with a view"

Update: you can check out FUJAKO's music here.

iMPC Pro Log - New iMPC Pro in the Works From Retronymns & Akai Pro

Published on Apr 28, 2014 Retronyms·57 videos

"iMPC Pro Log showcases the latest features from the freshest development build of iMPC Pro, the upcoming beat production iPad app from Akai Professional and Retronyms. A new video drops every week until we launch!

[Note: iMPC Pro is currently in development. All features are subject to change]

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Playlist:
1. Meet the Flux Link — iMPC Pro Log
"The iMPC Pro Mixer is where you mix your project... what else! There's a lot under the hood including on-board EQ, compression, FX sends, automation, and more.'

2. Meet the Mixer — iMPC Pro Log
"The iMPC Pro Mixer is where you mix your project... what else! There's a lot under the hood including on-board EQ, compression, FX sends, automation, and more."

Charlie Lab Digitar midi guitar interface

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This is pretty amazing. There have only been a total of five Charlie Lab posts on the site including this one. Two of them went up today. What are the odds of that? See the Charlie Lab channel below for the others including a video.

Details in the auction from this Sound on Sound article.

"Italian company Charlie Lab's Digitar aims to provide a cheap and easy way to add guitar-like textures to MIDI-based music, without the need to buy an expensive and cumbersome dedicated MIDI guitar synth. For a start, the Digitar isn't actually a guitar: it's a compact and sturdy belt-mounted box, worn around the waist and equipped with six thick wires -- 'strings' -- which you play pretty much as you would the strings on a guitar. Power and MIDI connections are provided by an external box which is connected to the Digitar by a lead. Chords of up to four notes are played on a MIDI keyboard, the connected Digitar interprets these into a six-note guitar chord, you strum the strings and the result is sent to the MIDI Out to play the guitar sound of your choice -- all of this, of course, happens simultaneously. String movement, detected by fast optical sensors, produces no audible delays or glitches...'

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E- MU PROTEUS 2500 RACK MOUNT SYNTH with 5 Hard to Find Expansions

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via the listing: "E- MU PROTEUS 2500 RACK MOUNT SYNTH with 5 hard to find and expensive 32 mg each expansion ROMS. 128 Voice...

Pure Phatt
Composer
Orchestral 1 & 2
And one other. I forgot to mark it but have yet to see one with the same numbers on EBay to date."

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Black Market Modular 3U Bento Box

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"- 3U unpowered roadcase designed for use with TipTop Audio "Happy Ending Kit" (or any 84hp/rackears combination)

- Features recessed latches, spring-loaded handle, and enough room to leaves standard cables patched in when the lid is attached for transpor

** Case only. HEK & Modules shown in the pictures are not included **

DIMENSIONS:
19.25"W x 5.375"D x 5.25"H (LID Removed)
20"W x 6.125"D x 8.375"H (with Lid & handle"

Note this is the first Black Market Modular post on the site.