MIDERA | Mirage of an agonal breath

Published on Jan 1, 2019 MIDERA

"Ensoniq Mirage - sampled sounds from Korg Gadget. My Mirage is dying (hence the title), what you hear at the end is the Mirage taking an agonal breath."

Exploring X1L3 SHARD w/ Elektron Machine Drum

Published on Jan 1, 2019 Nostalgic Ruckus

"This is SHARD. Oh my… I’m using a kick from the Machine Drum and plugging it into Shard’s input. The creator Shane Williams aka X1L3 is known for his rather crazy circuit bent devices. I’m sure a lot of his past circuit bent work has inspired this. You get a very similar vibe when messing around with a circuit bent Casio or opening up some old 80s toy and diving into the unknown’s of it’s circuitry to create a box of wonder or mangled horror. The setup is Elektron’s Machine Drum output into Hexinverter’s Mutant Bassdrum’s distortion input then into Shard. The Machine drum’s kick was used instead of the Hexinverter due to needing a longer decay on the kick. The distortion output from the Mutant Bassdrum is then multiplied 3 times. One clean signal so you can hear the kick clean over Shard, one into Shard’s input, and one into Shard’s Atrophy input. The Atrophy input is more for control voltage but I have found plugging other sound sources into the cv inputs create some very interesting layers. There is some reverb then added at the end of the chain. If you are into noise or beat mangling Shard is one of those hidden gems."

Alpha Products VS-100 Voice Synthesizer For TRS-80

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"comes with the instructions and paperwork as shown"

Some pics including some of the inside, the ribbon cable and paperwork via this new listing.

The only one other was featured here back in 2011. That was also the only other Alpha Products post. Curious if they made anything else.

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Access Virus TI2 Whiteout 61-Key Keyboard Synthesizer

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"Only 150 exists in the world. Original Owner. Excellent Condition. Everything Works. Comes with Keyboard and Power Cable." Matching white at that!

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Elka Synthex 1981 Black/Wood Panel Finish with Midi

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"This Synthex has been in used fairly regularly in an Air conditioned studio but Plays beautifully, Has midi.

There are a few cosmetic issues IE. Some chipped wood on the paneling and missing caps from 1 or two filter, but its all very minor stuff and par the course when dealing with a vintage synth of this age."

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Sequential Circuits Prophet-600

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Roland Juno 106 Vintage Polyphonic Analogue Synthesiser

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Akai AX60 Professional Polyphonic Synthesizer w/ Original Box

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Modded Roland EF-303 Groove Effects Processor / Synthesizer SN ZN70621

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"Interesting vintage effects processor which was released by Roland back with their early MC-x0x series boxes. For various effects you can use a 16 step series of linear potentiometers to specify modulation sequence. I used it mainly for Filter and the Low Fi effect. Also has a very basic drum machine and bass synth. Receives and sends midi sync. Enjoy!

One thing to note in the pics - the play/continue and reset buttons were relocated to tactile physical momentary switches on this unit. Works fine, maybe even somewhat improved actually from the original switch type. Anyway, just something to keep in mind in case you are looking for a completely ‘stock’ unit."

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'73 Rare PAIA SyntheSpin MKII TREMOLO Rotary LESLIE PEDAL

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Check out the old school brown appliance plug.

"Components appear to be original and date to '73, everything works well with no issues...no noise problems, but does have some wear. No volume/exp pedal at the moment, so unable to test the remote center/speed jacks, but the bypass jack is working. Missing a piece of the left side panel but otherwise complete, original and working. Kinda rare for these early 70's home builds."

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