Vintage Vermona Synthesizer with original hardcase

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Roland SH-32 SN ZP63451 with Original Box

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"Despite the plain-and-simple layout of the front panel, there's a surprising amount of capability crammed into this little thing. Take a look at the number of functions stacked on each button and you'll get an idea of how deep you can dive with a bit of patience and the manual handy. You're not just getting a nice wobbly analogue-modelling synth - it also does a pretty mean 606 and 808 drum machine impression, has a pattern sequencer and one of the most effective arpeggiators I've worked with. The effects are a bit pants (I love the bitcrusher though!), but run it through some external pedals or whatever and you can get some very angry noises out of it."

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Roland System-1 Desktop In the Works?

Pic spotted on sequencer.de

In front of the eurorack system you can see what appears to be a currently unknown Roland Aira desktop module. If you zoom in it gets blurry but you can see what appears to be knobs on the left and sliders on the right much like the center front panel for the System-1 keyboard. What's off are the bottom and top row.  Time will tell.  Hopefully we'll know what it is by the Musikmesse.

Update: Some are speculating this could be analog with patch points to interface with modular systems. That could explain the top row, however, note that Roland's first foray back into the analog world is with the JD-Xi which is not part of the Aira line. This desktop has the Aira green styling which implies it will use that technology. There was a NAMM demo for the JD-Xi where the presenter was asked why it wasn't part of the Aira line and the answer given was that it used different technology than the Aira line, and Roland did not want to confuse the two. It will be interesting to see what this new desktop ends up being.

KORG Polysix Original Presets Demo

Published on Mar 30, 2015 syrk76

"KORG Polysix - for sale - oryginal presets - analog synthesizer"

rainyMarch1

Published on Mar 30, 2015 tffshtt

"slow jam on a rainy march day, just a [Yamaha] TG33 and a [MFB] Filterbox"

Kart Kart : KORG DSN-12

Published on Mar 30, 2015 karenevil

"Just for fun movie and soundtrack with DSN12 :D
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DSN12 movie/soundtrack : Zoom Q4
Real Kart movie : Nikon1V2
Mario Kart7 movie (3DS) : Canon PowerShot G12
Video editor : Kdenlive on Debian wheezy GNU/Linux"

Roland JD-XI Crossover Synth - Review

Published on Mar 30, 2015 sonicstate

"A new product category for Roland, with 128 note SuperNATURAL synth engine, plus 1 Osc analog (filter) synth voice, vocoder and 4 track sequencer - is it a bundle of fun?"

Roland JD-Xis on eBay

Productdemo - Stereoping Deluxe Delay Eurorack Module

Published on Mar 30, 2015 stereoping

"Official demovideo for my Deluxe Delay Eurorack Module. It is based on the PT2399 digital delaychip and offers a clever Send-VCA you can modulate for swirly delay trails on desired passages. Besides further control voltage inputs for Delaytime and Feedback you’ll even get a Send-Return-path. Inserting an equalizer or bandpass turns the Deluxe Delay into a Reggae- or Dub-Delay. The module has a very small depth of just 25 mm (1 inch), a width of 14 eurorack units and comes with high quality pots screwed to a cute aluminium frontpanel with dual color eloxalprint.
The video contains 8 separate feature demos, mostly in musical context. Hope you like it :-)"

Korg SQ1+MS20mini!

Published on Mar 30, 2015 SYNTH GURU

"Korg SQ-1 driving Korg MS20 mini"

Korg SQ-1s on eBay | KORG MS20 Minis on eBay

Advice needed for a Yamaha SY 1

Published on Mar 30, 2015 organfairy

"I bought this Yamaha SY-1 very cheap - 400dkr (~$60) - and all was hunkydory untill I found that there is a problem with the envelope generator - a problem that is unfixable because those ass....not-so-nice-persons at Yamaha decided that it was a fantastic idea to cast a block of epoxy around the parts that are most likely to fail! According to the service manual that I found online the reason is to make sure everything inside the blocks has the same temperature. In other words to secure a stable operation. Personally I think the reason is that they didn't want competitors to see how they had designed their circuits. The somewhat similar Roland SH-2000 from the same age are much more repair-friendly and nothing is hidden there - and it is also quite stable to temperature changes.

I made a temporary repair that isn't very good. So I would like to ask if anybody has an idea to what I should do to get it fully operational again?

The music is something I made in 1997 (sorry about the tape noise) and is primarily played on Roland SH-2000. The other instruments are Roland CR-1000, Casio SA-1 and SA-3, and Bontempi KS-3400."