See the SUIKO link at the bottom of this post more including a video.
"SUIKO ST20 is extremely rare and most strange japanese electronic musical instruments
originally made for japanese traditinal music circa. 1980.
it's built in cool brown custom suitcase like EMS synth, one side of the suitcase is a speaker
so you can play without external amp or mixer but don't worry it has audio output too.
keyboard itself is built in beautiful brown metal plate, look cool!
these keyboards were very expensive and made very limited quantities those days
so i'ts very hard to find even in Japan nowadays...
this is your first and last chance to get this vintage gem!
it has 2 rows of button keyboard
this keyboard specially designed for playing glissando easily like koto(japanese harp)
front row of the keyboard is japanese scale,so just playing randomly you can easily get exotic japanese melody!
there are various switch and dial for special japanese tuning and sustain and octave switch
three sounds are selectable,shyakuhachi(japanese bamboo flute),koto(japanese harp) and pipe organ
sounds are very analog, warm and strange!"
"This auction is for 8 Patch Sheets for the SH-1000 Synthesizer.
Fascinatingly Vintage, and Undeniably Rare.
The photos are of the actual item. The size is almost exactly 1/2 of a standard piece of paper. One sided; free of writing. These have no real binding really and are barely held together at the ends with glue, which I will try to preserve."
Novation just announced a major update for Launchpad for iOS. The following is the official press release with all the details.
"Create new tunes and remixes on iPhone
Launchpad for iPhone v4.0 gets major update. Start new music, edit pads and import your own sounds.
Launchpad for iOS continues its fast paced evolution releasing another significant update. Mobile music makers can now create their own remixes from scratch using the iPhone version of the app, following the success of the iPad version.
The popular Launchpad for iOS app lets mobile music makers remix music on iPad and iPhone. With this powerful update, electronic music makers can start new remixes from scratch, building new music from the huge sound library available (Over 100 soundpacks to date). Users can easily search for sounds, tag favourite sounds, and then edit pads to create unique performances to then easily share.
For advanced music makers and remixers, Audio Import* is now also available for iPhone as an In-App Purchase. Users can bring in their own sounds easily from almost anywhere including Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, AudioCopy, AudioShare, Airdrop**. A full user folder management system helps manage a large amount of imported files.
Launchpad for iPad has also been updated, and now supports the more flexible document picker importing method. This allows for many more sources such as iCloud, GoogleDrive, as well as the usual Dropbox, AudioCopy, AudioShare etc. A much requested panning per pad feature has also been added.
Audio Import marks a significant step forward for Launchpad for iPhone, unlocking new potential and affirming Launchpad for iOS as one of the DJ/Producer essentials.
Highlight Features
• Launchpad for iPhone (Free Update)
• Create new projects
• Browse for sounds in your library and assign to pads
• Search for sounds by Soundpack, Category, Type by BPM or name
• Tag favourite sounds and filter by them
• Edit Pad settings such as loop or trigger type, Sync type, Gain and Pan
• iPhone 7 supported: Haptics support for FX, and panning added for stereo speakers
• Launchpad for iPhone (In-App Purchase)*
• Import from almost anywhere Dropbox, AudioCopy, AudioShare, Airdrop**
• Create your own nested folders to manage your imported sounds
• Manage move, delete, Rename, and change categories
• Assign to Favourite sounds
• Edit Sound settings such as Default Volume, Category, and name
• Launchpad for iPad (Free)
• Panning per pad added
• iPad Audio Imported Updated
• Now import from many more sources iCloud, GoogleDrive, as well as Dropbox, AudioCopy, AudioShare etc
* In-App Purchase required
** Cloud Storage App i.e. Dropbox App, needs to be installed on your device to use features.
About Blocs
The Blocs team grew out of Focusrite & Novation, where they were responsible for innovations such as the original Launchpad hardware and the Launchpad for iOS app. They are now based at Tileyard Studios in Kings Cross, London. Learn more about them here http://blocs.cc/about"
Watch The Primary Launchpad for iOS Video Here:
Launchpad for iOS // Make & remix music
Published on Aug 16, 2016 Blocs x Novation - Launchpad & Blocs Wave for iOS
This one in via MATRIXSYNTH supporter, Soundfly. You'll find the full tutorial and track on Soundfly here. BTW, Soundfly has quite a few courses online, so if this particulary tutorial does not interest you, be sure to check out the rest.
"Step 1 — Oscillators
This is a thick dual-oscillator tone that, to my ear, sounds like that of the classic Minimoog (I have yet to confirm what synth was actually used, so feel free to hip us to any insider knowledge you may have in the comments!). To get this tone, we’ll need to set both our oscillators to a sawtooth waveform, with one tuned an octave below the other."
Anyone know more about this one? I don't believe I've ever seen one of these before. The listing doesn't state much: "Up for sale or best offer is one Vintage Street Electronics Echo PC2 Synthesizer!
No card was included in the box, however it includes the external speaker box unit,manual,
and two larger floppy discs."
According to one of the floppies the brand is Street Electronics CORP. and the copyright date is 1988.
Update via Dave O Mahony in the comments: "Looks like the Echo 2 speech sound card add on for the Apple II. Seems it used the same chip as the Speak & Spell! [link] Auction doesn't include the card - just software and speaker!"
"The Echo II was a plug-in expansion card, speech synthesizer card for the Apple II and Apple IIc personal computers that allowed applications to use speech synthesis. The Echo II used the TMS5220 speech synthesis chip to synthesize speech. The Echo II software could synthesize either unlimited text-to-speech using stitched phonemes, or play back raw LPC data for specific words, with resulting higher speech quality.
LPC (linear predictive coding) was the speech synthesis technology used, which allowed applications to encode speech data in a compact form. The Echo II used the TMS 5220 LPC Speech Chip which was popular in other speech synthesizers"
