Steiner-Parker Synthacon

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"This is the 1191 model; the very first model released in 1974 (which in my opinion make it even more rare since there were less than 300 units total ever made.) It is in great condition considering it is 40 years old. There are a couple of chips in the wood and scratches on the face yet nothing really serious compared to the seriousness of its devastating tone !!
A rare example of a very unique and exceptional portable 3-VCO monophonic analog synthesizer that rivals the popular Minimoog with its fat tone but also the EMS Synthi with its huge range of additionable modulations. All at the tip of a clever assortment of switches, no need of patch-cords nor pins. This one is in very good cosmetic and technic condition for its age. Apart from some serigraphy gone here and there and a few - sometimes scratchy - pots it really looks great and behaves as it should, which could be described as 'wonderfully' !"

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Yamaha CS-15 Vintage Analog Synth SN 3743

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Nord & Prophet improvisation

Published on Apr 12, 2015 Mitch Wiseman

"Just a little improv after listening to some Arvo Part compositions.

Album coming soon..."

New Elka Synthex Launch Set for Thursday

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"The Elka Synthex is nearly here! And the launch is already this coming Thursday (16.4.2015).

LAUNCH PARTY
If you are in Frankfurt during Musikmesse on Thursday and you would like to join us, please request an invite by emailing katariina@bringelkaback.com.

Let's bring Elka back! #bringelkaback"

2015 Brighton Modular Meet Set for May 30th

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via Thonk who will be showing their latest at the event.

Oberheim Matrix 1000 Analog Rack Synthesizer

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Radikal Technologies Spectralis II

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"Up for auction is a rare Radikal Technologies Spectralis II Synthesizer.

Synthesizer, two analog filters, groovebox, and sequencer, filterbank, etc, etc... really powerful and deep sequencing and programming. Best sounding standalone machine / groovebox you will ever hear.


The Radikal Technologies Spectralis II is in near mint condition and functions perfectly."

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Analogue Solutions Vostok

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"You are bidding on a Vostok synth from Analogue Solutions, which incorporates many of their modules with a VCS3 style pin matrix. The Vostok can sculpt incredibly thick sounds, especially when overdriving the filter it can generate leads and baselines with a lot of variety.

The synth contains:

3 oscillators
pin matrix
ring modulator
2 lfos
8 step sequencer
attenuated joystick
output meter
2 envelope generators
noise and sample and hold
6 channel mixer
splits
(ludicrously beefy) filter based on the MS20, killer bass comes out of this thing!
midi input
Included in the sale also:
8 patch leads (ignore the image, in retrospect 4 seemed rather measly)
10 standard matrix pins
6 resistor pins (for mixing signals)"

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Korg EX800 polyphonic synth

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"The Korg Poly-800 is a synthesizer released by Korg in 1983. Its initial list price of $795 made it the first fully programmable synthesizer that sold for less than $1000. It featured a 49 key non-velocity sensitive keyboard, two buttons for data entry, and a joystick controller, which could modulate the DCO pitch or the VCF. Though the Poly-800 had MIDI, it did not feature MIDI sysex functionality, and patches had to be backed up to cassette tape. It had 8-voice polyphony (paraphony) with one DCO per voice. It could be switched into double mode which stacks two DCOs for a fuller sound, but reduces the polyphony to 4 voices. It featured one analog resonant low-pass VCF with 24dB/oct which was shared for all voices. Like a monophonic synthesizer, the filter was switchable between single or multiple modes. In single mode, the first key pressed triggers the filter envelope, and unless all keys are released, the filter does not re-trigger. In multi mode, each key pressed in turn triggers the filter envelope, even if other keys are still pressed down.

Further it had three digital envelope generators, a noise generator, an LFO, and a chorus effect. It also sported a simple built in sequencer.

About a year after the Poly-800 was introduced, a keyboardless, rackmount/tabletop version, called the EX-800, was released, adding limited MIDI sysex capability."

ARP AXXE Restoration by GOLT !

Published on Apr 12, 2015 GOLT !

"The first video in my ARP AXXE restoration series. I replace the power supply and rebuild the 4075 filter board."

ARP AXXE Restoration (Part 2) - Repairing the power switch

Published on Apr 12, 2015

"How to repair the ARP AXXE main power ON-OFF switch."

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