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Roland Jupiter 4 SN 750232

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"Estate Sale Find

In working condition except for keys E
through B above middle C. 8 keys total.
Obviously used well and needs a little TLC.

Returns accepted within 14 days. Buyer assumes shipping."

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Vintage Baldwin Discoverer DS-50 SN BC2801788

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"It came out in mid/late 70s (pre-MIDI) and features some control over the synth sounds plus a built in drum machine. It is missing one of the knobs. The auto-accompany can be turned on or off and split at the keyboard (rhythm vs melody). There's a built in speaker but it can be bypassed using the audio outs. This makes it easy to implement in your home studio. They really built instruments to last in the 70s. The DS-50 is made of metal and really well constructed. Original power cord is included."

You can find a demo of one posted here.

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Roland JX-3P Analog Synth

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Wav Trigger Eurorack Module with 16 sockets , triggered by Game System , Modular Sampler

Published on Aug 1, 2016 HOX808

"The famous Korg Minipops 7 sounds loaded onto the SD card. controlled by various sequencers."

Info on Wav Trigger board used in this module by HOX808, via sparkfun:

"Description: The WAV Trigger is a unique high-fidelity polyphonic audio player with surprising capabilities. Supporting up to 2048 uncompressed 16-bit, 44.1kHz wav files – the same quality as an audio CD – the WAV Trigger can play and mix up to 14 stereo tracks simultaneously and independently, with very low latency. Tracks can be controlled via 16 programmable trigger inputs, or by using a native serial control protocol or even MIDI.

Trigger inputs can be connected directly to switches and buttons, or to digital outputs from sensors or another microcontroller. Alternate functions can be specified using a free cross-platform GUI application, and allow triggers to play sequential or random tracks, pause and resume groups of tracks and even control volume. An Arduino library allows for complex serial control like real-time mixing, starting multiple tracks in sample-sync and smooth cross-fading between tracks.

On-board sample rate conversion allows for smoothly changing playback speed/pitch from 0.5x to 2x. in real-time.

MIDI allows you to use the WAV Trigger as a polyphonic sampling synthesizer to play your own sounds from any MIDI keyboard controller. MIDI Channels and Note numbers are mapped to track numbers, and MIDI Controllers adjust volume as well as attack and release times. MIDI Program Change is supported to switch between up to 16 banks of 128 sounds. The WAV Trigger audio engine even implements, pitch bending, voice stealing (oldest playing voices are used for new MIDI Notes when all 14 voices are being used), note attack (fade-in), note release (fade-out) and latency averages 8 ms.

The WAV Trigger supports both SDSC (up to 2GB) and SDHC (up to 32GB) type microSD cards.

Check the link in the documents below to keep up with the latest Firmware updates!

Note: This product is a collaboration with Robertsonics. A portion of each sales goes back to them for product support and continued development."

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Thank you Mr. Edgar Froese

Published on Aug 1, 2016 Harry M
Update: Re-Published on Aug 8, 2016

"Thank You Edgar for your Music. The first record i listened was Alpha Centauri but Rubycon was the start for me to be a full TD fan. R.I.P."

Edgar Froese passed away at the age of 70 on January 20, 2015.

Hordijk Krell Project

Published on Aug 1, 2016 Salz-Peter Zucker

"Randomly self-playing sounds from the Hordijk Modular System with a Strymon El Capistan as the only effect used."

Radionics Radio - An Album of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies - Delawarr Multi-Oscillator (c.1962)

Published on Aug 1, 2016 ashford daisyak

This one in via Daniel Wilson: the album "draws attention to one of the strangest sound-making devices ever made - the under-researched Delawarr Multi-Oscillator (c.1962), which was designed to convert thoughts into clusters of frequencies. My research into this oddity has culminated in this release."

Video Description:
"Advert for the new release: Radionics Radio - 'An Album of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies' on Sub Rosa (due August 5th 2016).

Radionics Radio is an electroacoustic and musical exposition of alternative tuning systems derived from frequencies submitted via the Radionics Radio app. All the sounds strictly originate from respective thought-frequency submissions and octaves thereof.

Further background info on this research-based project can be viewed here: [embedded below]

From press release:
'Daniel Wilson's Radionics Radio draws upon the fringe-science of radionics, with its invisible forces and psychic resonances, to spawn electroacoustic and electronic compositions employing very alternative tuning systems. Radionics' idea that thoughts can be represented as frequencies is vigorously explored on this new release through microtonal compositions which range from mutating drones to electronic sambas, with nods to Raymond Scott and Daphne Oram along the way.'

Radionics Radio was made possible through Sound and Music's Embedded programme and Resonance 104.4FM.

www.miraculousagitations.com
www.subrosa.net
www.resonancefm.com
www.soundandmusic.org

RADIONICS RADIO
Sub Rosa CD SR423 digipack + 20 page booklet
File under: Electroacoustic Experimentation
Release date: Aug 5th 2016"

Radionics Radio - Radionics in Relation to Sound (Part One)

Radionics Radio - Radionics in Relation to Sound (Part One) from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

"Radionics Radio is a project by Resonance FM's Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence Daniel Wilson. It draws on the radionic idea that thoughts can be intuitively linked to clusters of frequencies. From this, it is possible to explore unusual alternative tuning systems supposedly embodying certain thoughts. The Radionics Radio EP will be released by Sub Rosa in the summer of 2016."

Monolake Interview

Published on Aug 1, 2016 AudioCentralMagazine

"The first part of the interview with Robert Henke-Monolake taken at Acusmatiq XI in Ancona, Italy, on 30th of July 2016. Some disturbs on audio for a lot of background noises, winds and other gremlins inside the Mole Vanvitelliana."

Monolake, aka Robert Henke, is the man behind Ableton's Operator, Sampler, Max4Live devices, and other projects. He is also the man behind the Monodeck. If you are not familiar with him, check out some previous posts here on MATRIXSYNTH dating all the way back to 2006.

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FM Spasmoharmodium

Uploaded on Feb 15, 2007 ashford daisyak

"A late night mini-spazz on the spasmoharmodium around the harmonic series.

It is beneficial to one's harmonic awareness to observe the harmonic series at least once a week, but problematically, this magic series of notes is rarely seen or paid any heed.

The device is a homemade MIDI cracklebox which interfaces with a MaxMSP patch which creates FM tones in harmonicity's thrall. Well... I hope the colours improve things."