"The unit appears to be working fine, all the keys and knobs and buttons responding fine including Sequencer and Arpeggio functions. No noticeable scratch noise on the sliders and knobs.
Cosmetically, the unit is in very nice condition as you can see. There are only some minimum signs of wear and usage, obviously have been looked after very well. One of the two clutches on the battery compartment lid appears to be missing as pictured, but the lid still stays on firmly. The battery compartment is clean, worked fine with batteries as well as with my spare power supply..."
"Daniel Fisher, Sweetwater’s full-time synth fanatic, gives an in-depth tour of the Hammond Novachord, which is widely regarded as the father of the modern polyphonic synthesizer. It debuted at the 1939 World’ Fair and featured 72-note polyphony, oscillators, filters, envelopes, and frequency modulation, which were used to craft its organic and otherworldly sounds.
After a close look at all of the Novachord’s parameters and internal components, Daniel gives an impromptu performance while sweeping through all of the parameters’ values. Then, as an example of what it would sound like in modern times, Fisher plays the Novachord through an Eventide H9 Multi-Effects Processor.
Only five fully restored Novachords are known to exist today.
Joseph Fill and his son, Justin, poured more than 2,000 hours of work restoring this 1941 Hammond Novachord. They replaced countless components, rewired all the connections, and then cleaned and polished the internal and external surfaces by hand.
Please feel free to contact Joe Fill if you wish to inquire about purchasing this beautifully restored piece of musical instrument history: hangarjoe@sbcglobal.net"
Three pics of Ken MacBeth's Exacta Synthesizer in the works. You can see by the panel print this is clearly a prototype. No additional details at this point, but you can see the features via the control panel yourself.
Two oscillators, a control oscillator replacing the LFO on other synths, VCF, two envelopes, left AND right delay, mixer, PWM, pitch bend, and glide. Regarding the control oscillator vs. LFO, LFO stands for Low Frequency Osicallator, so I'm guessing this one goes into audio range.
"Here's the 4 channel stereo mixer and new PFL headphone expander from Erica Synths. There's 3 stereo channels, 2 of which can have an extra 6dB of gain or be merged to mono, one straight stereo channel and one mono input with pan CV. The PFL expander gives you all 4 channels on switches with a headphone output and volume control for the headphone output."
"Just 10 Patches that I have made from scratch, mainly evolving sounds and all with FX (because I love FX). Been getting to know the DeepMind 12 a great deal more, testing out the modulation capabilities and FX routing. This is a great Synth and proving itself to be a Pad Monster...Just another 100 patches to make..."
