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Sunday, August 07, 2022
Moog MiniMoog Voyager XL SN XL0167
Vintage Oberheim Xpander Synthesizer
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"This Oberheim Xpander sounds absolutely incredible. It's fully analog and huge sounding. The encoders have been replaced so creating patches is a breeze.
Comes with the original user manual. The manual binding is broken in places. Also includes patch lists(for tapes long gone) and 2 copies of the Authorized Service Center list dated October 14th 1985."
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"This Oberheim Xpander sounds absolutely incredible. It's fully analog and huge sounding. The encoders have been replaced so creating patches is a breeze.
Comes with the original user manual. The manual binding is broken in places. Also includes patch lists(for tapes long gone) and 2 copies of the Authorized Service Center list dated October 14th 1985."
Symbolic Sound Pacarana Sound Computation Engine for KYMA - Rackmount Synthesizer
E-mu Proteus MPS Plus Orchestral Synthesizer
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"Has one quirk with an easy workaround: on startup, the pitch is a half step above concert pitch. Pressing the 'MULTI' button once restores it to concert pitch, and then press 'MULTI' again to un-toggle that feature."
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"Has one quirk with an easy workaround: on startup, the pitch is a half step above concert pitch. Pressing the 'MULTI' button once restores it to concert pitch, and then press 'MULTI' again to un-toggle that feature."
White Model Philips PMC 100 Synthesizer Composer SN 0033020 w/ Original Box & Manuals
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"From the designer of the SFX peripherals for the Commodore 64, came this curious little box — the Personal Media Composer (PMC) 100. It's got a Yamaha two-operator FM chip, a membrane keyboard (flat, but not capacitive like the EDP Wasp) and its most striking feature, the built-in cassette deck. This allowed you to save your compositions as either sound or data, or it could function as a Walkman or dictaphone. The PMC 100 came in black or (a much rarer) white.
The main voice is monophonic, with simple preset accompaniment rhythms (with 15 options for the rhythm's voice) controlled by the 'Gling' safe-note system. This heavily limits its potential as a solo instrument, not only because the beats are laughably thin but because the accompanying voices are fixed in their patterns.
There are 100 preset melody voices, mostly the standard Yamaha PortaSound two-op noises, but there's also a surprising amount of useable sound effects and slow, evolving (but moving in very obvious digital steps) pads. It's charming in its own incredibly lo-fi way.
The real area where it shines, though, is the step sequencer. It's visualized on an LCD screen in full stave notation with rock-steady tempo, adjustable to insane degrees! Notes can be edited in or out of the sequence at will. If this thing had MIDI out it would have become a cult classic.
Sadly, though, it was a flop in terms of sales. It's not that hard to understand why; even by the mid-eighties this thing would have been considered comical and there's little hope of understanding the architecture without a manual. Still, it's a great curio to have in any synth collection and can even be useful for some styles or when buried in a mix."
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"From the designer of the SFX peripherals for the Commodore 64, came this curious little box — the Personal Media Composer (PMC) 100. It's got a Yamaha two-operator FM chip, a membrane keyboard (flat, but not capacitive like the EDP Wasp) and its most striking feature, the built-in cassette deck. This allowed you to save your compositions as either sound or data, or it could function as a Walkman or dictaphone. The PMC 100 came in black or (a much rarer) white.
The main voice is monophonic, with simple preset accompaniment rhythms (with 15 options for the rhythm's voice) controlled by the 'Gling' safe-note system. This heavily limits its potential as a solo instrument, not only because the beats are laughably thin but because the accompanying voices are fixed in their patterns.
There are 100 preset melody voices, mostly the standard Yamaha PortaSound two-op noises, but there's also a surprising amount of useable sound effects and slow, evolving (but moving in very obvious digital steps) pads. It's charming in its own incredibly lo-fi way.
The real area where it shines, though, is the step sequencer. It's visualized on an LCD screen in full stave notation with rock-steady tempo, adjustable to insane degrees! Notes can be edited in or out of the sequence at will. If this thing had MIDI out it would have become a cult classic.
Sadly, though, it was a flop in terms of sales. It's not that hard to understand why; even by the mid-eighties this thing would have been considered comical and there's little hope of understanding the architecture without a manual. Still, it's a great curio to have in any synth collection and can even be useful for some styles or when buried in a mix."
Dreadbox Nymphes 6-Voice Analog Synthesizer in Original Box
Saturday, August 06, 2022
Some tweak time with the Yamaha CS30
video upload by Hanz Volt
"If you love to spend time understanding exactly how your synthesizer reacts to all parameter combinations so you can synthesize exactly what sound you want… then this synth will keep you exploring for a very long time. 2 VCO, 2 VCF, 3 ENV, 8 step sequencer. Inverted envelopes.. serious cross modulation, an LFO… the filters can be assigned to an envelope and that envelope modulated by the sequencer! LP BP HP stereo filters😮 and more🤯"
1010music Nanobox Lemondrop Synth and Linnstrument
video upload by riotbell
"This is a short video exploring the Nanobox Lemondrop granular synthesizer for the first time with the Linnstrument.
It's been several years since I last purchased a digital synth, and the Lemondrop is incredibly impressive. Amazingly tiny with a wonderfully intuitive interface. Hope to have a lot of fun with this in the future.
Oto Bam supplying reverb though the onboard effects are surprisingly good.
Thanks for listening."
New Toy - Yamaha PSS-380
video upload by ollilaboratories
"If you like my music you can find it here http://bit.ly/BurgMusic and also please consider supporting me at patreon for as little as 1 USD http://bit.ly/BurgPatreon
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Hey everyone, sorry for the very long silence... life has happened and I have had to prioritize family and other projects for some time. Here is a little video for you all to show some signs of life from the BURG HQ.
I bought this cheap little Yamaha Porta sound synth to have in the den, writing songs and capturing ideas... this is one of the first ideas/melodies that came out (prly something i have done before), and i thought, why not just play the melody with the PSS-380 and make a video? It actually sounds pretty good, albeit a bit noisy... but still pretty enjoyable. Since it runs on batteries i can play everywhere in the house so whenever i have an idea i can just turn it on and work on the melodies. Also, it is actually pretty powerful, the FM section has some direct controls to adjust SPECTRUM/MODULATION, which give access to what sounds like the operator order and modulation of the same, pretty cool stuff.
What you hear is the PSS-380 through the ms70 CDR zoom FX pedal ( carbon delay, particle reverb ) and the EHX 720 stereo looper for the bass melody. All is recorded live onto my Zoom H5 recorder.
Take care everyone, and thanks for sticking around ! you rock!"
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