"Everything works as specified, overhauled before shipping to have long life and to keep original sounds.
Change all electrolytic capacitors and voltage regulators, some short life OpAmps and logis ICs with new ones,
and keys knobs, sliders, switches and jacks cleaning before shipping."
"This one has the more sought after Moog filter. Also 8 years ago it had extensive work done by a professional vintage synth technician. The power supply was reworked maybe even replaced as I can't remember, A few of the boards had there epoxy coating removed. Beneficial should potential service need to be done . All semi internally routed patches were tested and repaired,Some jacks were replaced with Switchcraft equivalents. Since then, it has lived in a home studio environment and has been solid working.
Known issues; the right speaker does not work, however when you patch this MONO synthesizers audio out to both the Left and Right output jacks, It's mono signal does flow through like it should. You may want to calibrate if you see fit.
All patching points are 1/8th/3.5mm and this will easily plug into today's common Euroracks as well as computer based systems. No need for adapters unless your using 1/4" or banana jacks."
"PreenFM assembly. Music made with PreenFM and Van Daal Electronics Filter.
DIY kits and assembled units are available here: http://vandaal-electronics.com/shop/"
Published on Feb 9, 2016 Vintage Synthesizer Museum
"This was my second day with the Phenol, and just felt like making a video. Sorry if it's a long-winded.
Cross Patching Notes:
-Square Wave of Easel's Modulation Oscillator into Sync in of Oscillator 1 on Phenol
-Oscillator 2 of Phenol into Timbre modulation input of Easel's Complex Oscillator (Osc. 2 is also going through the Adder at maximum positive voltage)
-Easel Pulser output into Gate in of Envelope 2 of Phenol"
First revealed back in January of 2015, and in the video above in June of 2015, the Valhalla Shimmer Cartridge for the Tiptop Z-DSP is now available. Details follow via ValhallaDSP:
"The Z-DSP Shimmer cartridge has 8 original algorithms, designed to combine lush reverberation with multiple voices of pitch shifting, to create ethereal pads, rich chordal textures, dissonant clouds of sound, and a variety of other sounds that are perfect for electronic music. The algorithms are customized to work with the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Eurorack module.
There are 6 reverb algorithms in the Z-DSP Shimmer cart, arranged in order of complexity:
Fast Shimmer: A modulated reverb that quickly decays away into an endlessly pitch shifting tail. The shift interval can be set between +/- 12 semitones. Perfect for that classic “octave up” shimmer sound.
Slow Shimmer: Similar to Fast Shimmer, but with a much slower attack.
Dual Shimmer: Two pitch shifted voices, embedded within a larger modulated reverb network, shifting the reverb decay in both positive and negative directions. Try slowly sweeping the Shift control in this mode for ridiculously cinematic sounds.
Triple Shimmer: Two pitch shifted voices embedded within the reverb decay network, plus a third voice external to the network. This allows the user to have a reverb with +12 and -12 semitones of feedback, plus a stable +7 semitones voice without feedback.
Quad Shimmer: Four pitch shifted voices feeding into a lush modulated reverb. This allows for a variety of dissonant and consonant chordal textures, with the max Shift setting corresponding to a rich major chord.
ClusterVerb: Four pitch shifted voices embedded within the feedback network of a modulated reverb. The result quickly becomes dissonant or metallic. Perfect for insta-Ligeti, or Penderecki In A Box™.
In addition, the Z-DSP Shimmer cart features 2 special effects algorithms:
Quad Detune: 4 short pitch shifted delays, feeding back on each other. A variety of chorus, detuned, and dissonant effects can be obtained through this mode. Turn up the Feedback for maximum fun.
PitchEcho: A single pitch shifting voice, combined with a tape echo emulation = sound mangling joy. Turn up the feedback for barberpole self oscillation, and sweep the decay time for all sorts of swoopy glitches.
The Z-DSP Shimmer cart retails for $75, and will be available at your favorite Eurorack store in the next few days."
Roland JU-06
Korg MicroKorg
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca Keys
Korg Volca Beats
Korg Monotron Delay
Arturia Microrbute
Midi Solutions Quarda Thru
Behringer Micromix MX400
Tascam US-144mkII Audio Interface
Waves Supertap & TrueVerb
SonEQ (FREE EQ VST)
Ableton Live 8 ( Used as digital mixer / multi track )
Ozone
:Setup:
The Korg Volca Bass , Korg Volca Beats , Arturia Microbrute and Roland JU - 06 are all on sequence duty. The Korg Volca Keys & Microkorg are layered together for the live keys/lead.
I pushed the Roland JU-06 a little harder on this track, playing with more features / muting tracks all while maintaining everything I've learned about the Korg Volca Keys, Korg Volca Beats, Korg Volca Bass and Arturia Microbrute."
