Tuesday, July 07, 2020
Syntaur: The Synth Wizards (Documentary)
Syntaur
"Filmmaker Lucas Fowler (@lucasfowler75) has created a short documentary on Syntaur, a company devoted to keeping old synthesizers alive, and on and Sam Mims, its founder."
Ensoniq ZR-76 Synthesizer Workstation
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You can find demos of one here.
"Fully functional Ensoniq ZR-76 synthesizer with printed manual and disks.
The ZR-76 is Heavy and built like a tank. It contains stellar grand piano Perfect Piano card and superb panning Rhodes patches, as well as some excellent synthesizer pads and leads.
The ZR-76 was one of the last products Ensoniq designed before being acquired by Creative Technology. Its sound set is very similar to the MR-76, but with the Perfect Piano expansion board preinstalled. With three slots total, it can be expanded with two more of the Ensoniq EXP-series expansion boards. It can also load WAV and AIFF samples from floppy disk if the 4MB MR-FLASH expansion board is installed.
One of the more popular features of the ZR-76 was the "Idea Pad", which is a feature that has the keyboard always recording MIDI of what's being played so that when you play something you want to keep, you can send it to the sequencer for later editing and refinement.
This board is made for producing a whole, movie score, Practically - That's how good the sounds are sampled - some sounds are a little dated similar to Korg and Roland of that era, but when it comes to WoodWinds, Strings, and drum sounds and Natural rain forest loops they are just super clean and Fantastic!
A few cosmetic dings, but nothing broken missing or damaged.
Excellent Weighted Key action.
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You can find demos of one here.
"Fully functional Ensoniq ZR-76 synthesizer with printed manual and disks. The ZR-76 is Heavy and built like a tank. It contains stellar grand piano Perfect Piano card and superb panning Rhodes patches, as well as some excellent synthesizer pads and leads.
The ZR-76 was one of the last products Ensoniq designed before being acquired by Creative Technology. Its sound set is very similar to the MR-76, but with the Perfect Piano expansion board preinstalled. With three slots total, it can be expanded with two more of the Ensoniq EXP-series expansion boards. It can also load WAV and AIFF samples from floppy disk if the 4MB MR-FLASH expansion board is installed.
One of the more popular features of the ZR-76 was the "Idea Pad", which is a feature that has the keyboard always recording MIDI of what's being played so that when you play something you want to keep, you can send it to the sequencer for later editing and refinement.
This board is made for producing a whole, movie score, Practically - That's how good the sounds are sampled - some sounds are a little dated similar to Korg and Roland of that era, but when it comes to WoodWinds, Strings, and drum sounds and Natural rain forest loops they are just super clean and Fantastic!
A few cosmetic dings, but nothing broken missing or damaged.
Excellent Weighted Key action.
Access Virus KB
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"The Virus KB is a classic, very well made analog modeling synth. Full sized keyboard with 61 velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys. There are also individual and assignable Pitch and Mod wheels. The software digitally emulates physical circuits and the results are quite good sounding. There are two oscillators and two filters for lots of tone shaping along with two envelopes and LFOs. There is full MIDI implementation and some great sounding effects on the output. The synth is in good working condition and includes AC power cable."
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"The Virus KB is a classic, very well made analog modeling synth. Full sized keyboard with 61 velocity and aftertouch sensitive keys. There are also individual and assignable Pitch and Mod wheels. The software digitally emulates physical circuits and the results are quite good sounding. There are two oscillators and two filters for lots of tone shaping along with two envelopes and LFOs. There is full MIDI implementation and some great sounding effects on the output. The synth is in good working condition and includes AC power cable."
KORG 707 w/ PSU-200 Synthesizer Programs Expansion Card
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You can find a recent demo of one here.
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You can find a recent demo of one here.
Cwejman S1 MK2 Semi Modular Synth w/ Original Box
Moog Minimoog Voyager Select BLACK FIRE?
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Pretty sure these were called the Solar edition.
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Pretty sure these were called the Solar edition.
ROLAND JD-800 SN ZC42233
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"At some point in her life some clown has opened a bottle on one end so there is a little bit of plastic shell damage (see pic)"
Wow.
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"At some point in her life some clown has opened a bottle on one end so there is a little bit of plastic shell damage (see pic)"
Wow.
Waldorf Microwave Rev A with CEM 3389 Chips
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"Much warmer sound than the later Rev B because of the analog filter and the closest you can get to a PPG Wave. This Waldorf has OS 1.10."
You can find details on the different revisions here.
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"Much warmer sound than the later Rev B because of the analog filter and the closest you can get to a PPG Wave. This Waldorf has OS 1.10."
You can find details on the different revisions here.
Roland SYSTEM-100M D set 191-J/112/121/130/140/150 +181
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"Roland's modular synth announced in 1978! By patching, you can create any sound you want!
The content is (191-J/112/121/130/140/150) +181 keyboard!
The SYSTEM-100M, which realized the full-scale sound creation by combining the modules sold separately, attracted enthusiasts!
There were 5 basic sets from A to E, but the most popular and well-balanced is this D set!
Comes in a rack called 191J that can accommodate 5 modules!
SNs:
112 213069
121 212681
130 202588
140 163101
150 242770
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"Roland's modular synth announced in 1978! By patching, you can create any sound you want!
The content is (191-J/112/121/130/140/150) +181 keyboard!
The SYSTEM-100M, which realized the full-scale sound creation by combining the modules sold separately, attracted enthusiasts!
There were 5 basic sets from A to E, but the most popular and well-balanced is this D set!
Comes in a rack called 191J that can accommodate 5 modules!
SNs:
112 213069
121 212681
130 202588
140 163101
150 242770
Oberheim Matrix-12
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"Listed here is a well working and serviced Oberheim Matrix-12
The unit has had its supply rebuilt and confirmed to be totally working otherwise. A new battery has been added as well.
The Matrix-12 is the last major analog synth from Oberheim Electronics before they folded. The name says it all, 12 voices that can be programmed in a matrix like fashion in that the voices are practically fully modular, not to mention that each voice can be its own program and monitored through individual outputs on the side of the machine. This means the Matrix 12 can be a battery of analog drums, or a complex polyphonic patch... or a crazy split and layer and velocity layers.... is your head spinning yet?
Cosmetically this Matrix is in great shape *however* some of the clear plastic has been compromised. We are aware someone is currently making new overlays for the M12 and Xpander, and we'd be happy to install it at no cost to the buyer is the cosmetic defects are bothersome.
We do not find these defects to be of grave concern for this otherwise fine Matrix-12."
via this auction
"Listed here is a well working and serviced Oberheim Matrix-12The unit has had its supply rebuilt and confirmed to be totally working otherwise. A new battery has been added as well.
The Matrix-12 is the last major analog synth from Oberheim Electronics before they folded. The name says it all, 12 voices that can be programmed in a matrix like fashion in that the voices are practically fully modular, not to mention that each voice can be its own program and monitored through individual outputs on the side of the machine. This means the Matrix 12 can be a battery of analog drums, or a complex polyphonic patch... or a crazy split and layer and velocity layers.... is your head spinning yet?
Cosmetically this Matrix is in great shape *however* some of the clear plastic has been compromised. We are aware someone is currently making new overlays for the M12 and Xpander, and we'd be happy to install it at no cost to the buyer is the cosmetic defects are bothersome.
We do not find these defects to be of grave concern for this otherwise fine Matrix-12."
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