"Ensoniq Mirage rack DMS1 with Gotek USB floppy emulator. Manual, advanced sampling guide, quick reference card, and a USB stick with several folders of Ensoniq sound disks and 3rd party disk libraries. The OS still loads as slowly as it did from diskette, but the sounds load faster, and a single USB drive can hold many disks/partitions. The included USB drive will also have utilities and conversion tools for the floppy emulator."
"This is an original owners manual for a Roland System 100 Model 101 synthesizer. This has signs of use and has the word 'MASTER' written on it, as it was the master that Roland US used to make copies from . This also includes a fold out advertising brochure for the System 100 included."
Interesting bit of synth history if true. As always, feel free to comment below.
Update: new description from the listing:
"This is an original owners manual for a Roland System 100 Model 101 synthesizer. This has signs of use and has the word "MASTER" written on it, as it was the master that Roland US used to make photocopies from to sell.
This also includes a fold out advertising brochure for the System 100 included.
I worked at Roland, so, yeah, it's the real deal. Would be happy to prove it if you're in doubt."
And via the seller in the comments below:
"Its real and true. I (Boomer) worked at Roland almost a decade. When Roland moved and got rid of a lot of old parts (and employees) one of the things they axed was owners manuals reprinting. For years they just photocopied manuals for anything that wasn't a current product. You see "master" written on many copies of manuals circulating the internet, and I own just about all of those masters. I have decided to let them go since I only keep them carefully stored away, and someone else might actually use these or showed off like they should be. If anyone questions the authenticity, I can easily prove I worked there and that the story is true. Or you can contact any of the authorized US service centers and ask if they know me, as I was in charge of assisting every one of them with piano, synth, organ or sampler repairs remotely."
"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.
At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.
Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."
Equipped with an innovative drum sound source that allows breakbeats, which are generally composed of slices, to be constructed in the same way as regular drum sound sources. It also features a sequencer with 16 steps and 8 patterns, pattern chain playback, flam function, pattern mute, and other functions.
It consists of tones that are easy to use for HIPHOP, jungle, and acid. Additionally, the built-in stereo delay and overdrive allow for a wide range of expression.
"BREAK MINT is a mint tin-sized rhythm machine for breakbeats. It features an
innovative drum sound source that allows you to compose breakbeats, which are generally composed of slices, in the same way as a normal drum sound source, as well as a sequencer with 16 steps and 8 patterns, pattern chain playback, flam function, pattern mute, and other functions. It is composed of sounds that are easy to use for HIPHOP, jungle, and acid. In addition, the built-in stereo delay and overdrive allow for a wide range of expression.
BREAK MINT is a rhythm machine for break beats.
It is also equipped with an innovative drum sound source that can compose breakbeats, which are generally composed of slices, in the same way as a normal drum sound source, a sequencer with 16 steps and 8 patterns, pattern chain playback, a flam function, and a pattern mute. It consists of sounds that are easy to use for HIPHOP, jungle, and acid. In addition, by incorporating stereo delay and overdrive, a wide range of expressions is possible."
"This is the second song recording with the West Pest. It's a monophonic semimodular analog synthesizer based on the Buchla philosophy using a wavefolder to create overtones to the VCO sound.
I used for the recording the following FX pedals:
Behringer Bode Frequency Shifter 1630, Line 6 DL4 MkII, Pigtronix Echolution² Deluxe, GFI System Specular Reverb², OTO Boum.
Depending on the recorded track some FX are deactivated.
The signal went through a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 into the PC via USB for recording. To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. On some tracks Compressor and EQ where added in Cubase 13. The final song was then mastered using iZotope Ozone.
Well, I decided to go back to the basics, but at the same time make something useful for the synth community and do a kind of competition (I like competitions;-). What's my best synth for ambient music :-)"
