Never seen one of these before. It appears to be a serial buss expansion for computers to use with the Rhodes Chroma synthesizer, with sequencing software. The disks are dated 1982 and from Fender Musical Instruments who took ownership of ARP's assets with the Rhodes Chroma and Chroma Polaris.
"Vintage Roland 4 voice polyphonic CV Keyboard working perfectly and in great shape. It is 100v but can run on 120v. I have a 240 to 120 transformer I can include too, if the buyer will pay the extra shipping cost. The arpeggio is a bit confusing, so I've attached the instructions from a Jupiter 4 which works in the same way. I was using it with a euro rack system."
"Excellent condition, some minor signs of use, black metallic finishing (see pictures) . Cool, Rare and Discontinued. Includes:
Vocoder EPROM chip
Rare "Vocoda" overlay
Original chip puller
Original manual
Power Adapter
Original box"
"as-is. I have not gone over the entire synth and checked every feature and combination but it certainly works and makes that incredible 2600 sound. Known issues are a handful of broken faders and pitch tracking issues on Osc 2.
You can listen to audio examples of this exact synthesizer recorded for the purpose of this auction:"
"In near mint condition. It has very few minor signs of cosmetic wear including a couple of small scratches but nothing too visible. All functions are working well, all keys and sliders are functions without any problems. Please see pictures for more details. Tested before listing.
The voltage for this item is 100V. You will be able to use it in North American Main Voltage of 115/120V without
a transformer. However for long use, we do recommend using a step down transformer to perfectly match the voltage."
Note the listing states KORG in the title. Not sure what's up with that. As always, go through eBay for the buyer protection. These don't come up often.
"I've bought the Source Audio Ventris, an effects pedal that features two reverb / delay engines that can be combined, either in parallel or serial mode. This gear experiment is a deep dive into the features of the Ventris, in combination with the Volca Bass. Headphones recommended!
The basics of this setup are pretty simple: I program some slow arpeggios on the Keystep, which is played by the Volca Bass. The Bass has a slow and intense LFO on the cut-off, which produces the volume swells. The output of the Bass is then sent to the Ventris, and that's where the interesting stuff starts.
The Ventris has two effect engines running in serial mode. The first effect is called "offspring" and that's the cascading, modulated delay at the start of the video. This sound is then fed into the "shimmer" effect, which I introduce by increasing the "control 1" and "time" knob. The "time" knob also increases the delay feedback of the 'offspring' effect.
Each reverb / delay engine on the Ventris has its own set of parameters, but only part of them can be controlled from the pedal's interface. It becomes more restricted when using both reverb engines at the same time, because two of the knobs are then dedicated to controlling the dry/wet mix of the two engines. Live control of the other parameters, and for both engines at the same time, can be done using MIDI CC messages. I've configured the nanoKONTROL so that the first 4 sliders and knobs control parameters of effect A, and the second 4 control parameters of effect B. For example, the fifth knob controls the amount of shimmer of effect B, which is a parameter I tweak quite a lot in this video.
One hardware problem I had to solve: the nanoKONTROL only has a USB MIDI connector, but the Ventris requires a 5-pin MIDI plug. I don't currently own a hardware USB MIDI host (I'm considering the Retrokits RK-005), so I used my MacBook to achieve the MIDI routing. The nanoKONTROL is connected to my laptop, and so is the iConnectivity mio, which is in turn connected to the Ventris. By default MacOS does not support MIDI routing from one device to another, so I used the open source "MIDIrouter" app to achieve this (see link below).
The reason I decided to try the Ventris is because I'd like to see if it can replace my GFI System Specular Reverb V2. I love the sound of my Specular, but it only really does one sound (beautiful lush ambient epicness) and misses features that I'd like (e.g. 100% wet, control over pre-delay and modulation, MIDI clock sync for delay timings). I'm happy to say I can create a sound with the Ventris that is just as lush as the Specular, but with a lot more control and whole lot more extra features due to the possibility to use two reverb engines. (You can even use the Ventris' stereo inputs to feed it two different instruments, give them each their own reverb engine, and then configure it so that it is 'summed' into stereo again!) I feel like there's a lot more to discover with this device, even more so since you can download patches other people have created using its Neuro app.
Video recorded with iPhone 7. Audio recorded with UFX1204 in "standalone" mode, recording directly to USB HDD.
You can stream our music from Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and other streaming services, or download our music from Bandcamp: https://slenterendebeer.bandcamp.com"
all synthesizer sounds: YAMAHA DX7 II FD FM synthesizer from the year 1987
drums: LinnDrum
recording: multi-tracking without midi
fx: reverb and delay"
