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Happy Cinco De Wiardo?

This one popped up on the Wiard list via doc.

"Hi All

if nobody else is gonna mention it... i will...

By his account....
On 5 May 1999 a guy in Milwaukee decided that he'd pick up where his mentors left off in Analog synthesizer design, and he began operations as the "Wiard Synthesizer Company"
That was a full decade ago!
It seems like yesterday that i was on his porch with my trade-in Aries wonder why a fellow would wear a fez like that so early on a Saturday morning. i left with a 'the filter', a sequantizer, and a silver paneled envelator in my backseat and a unquenchable hunger for more.
Happy Anniversary Wiard! and many happy returns
Viva los Wiardos!
-doc"

BTW, Happy Cinco De Mayo folks!

Update: Hey! Wait a second! I'm seeing the site up on Feb 06 of 1998 on the Web Archives. Oh well, leave it to the Wiardos. jk :) Anyone out their know the actual date and/or year Wiard formed?

Update via doc on the Wiard list: "Hi Matrix
Like most temporal milestones.
ie: the discovery of 'America', Groundhog's day, Christmas, & National Frozen Potato Week.
The 5 May anniversary of Wiard is more a matter of convention than documentary evidence.

My own journal records this on 19 Nov 1998:
"looks like some guy up in Milwaukee got to the moon first with voltage controlled filter mode without using a crossfader, chk it out"

So there must have been something on the air before May '99.

But Grant has always celebrated Cinco de Mayo as the day that Wiard "began operations".... usually with a BBQ. But then, folks in Milwaukee don't need much of an excuse to get outside for a little R&R in May because that's just about when the glaciers recede enough to find the grill again (and the lawnmower)

i'm pretty sure Mike Firman got the first production Wiard...if that's so.... Mike? when did Grant build that for ya? (or maybe it was a 'beta')

They still haven't decided when Easter is either!!!!
;'>

-doc"

May 5th must be when it all crystallized and there was not turning back. :)

circuit bent zenith transistor radio

YouTube via 3rdness. "My great movie."

Roland Juno-106 rear warning

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KORG MS20 with Phill Ress Midi to CV converte

via this auction
"includes a Phill Ress Midi - CV converter which will allow you to connect the MS20 to a Midi Studio!!!!! (keeps the Korg in its original condition unlike other midi fits). There are many different wave shapes to be chosen, tuning facilities for the individual oscillators, white noise generator, resonance filter and ordinary seep filter, amplitude envelop controls, portamento, pitch bend plus much more..."

ARP Axxe Vintage Synth Keyboard

via this auction

keybdwizrd - MiniKorg 700s Demo #1

YouTube via keybdwizrd.
"The MiniKorg 700s vintage analog synthesizer (1974)."

UNIVOX Mini Korg K-1 (700) Analog Keyboard Synthesizer

via this auction

3LpgThingie

YouTube via sduck409
"A short video of an annoying patch I've been messing with. Lots of modules used - 3 motm 300's being cross-modulated, getting pitch cv's from the klee sequencer; main clock is the blacet binary zone; clock is being divided by the cgs pulse divider, various odd pulses are kicking several motm 800's which are firing into 3 lpg's, which are shaping the vco's sound; then there's the wogglebug, which is set to this eerie singling clocked setting I found, running through a motm 190 vca controlled by a long ramp wave, then running into a motm 410, feeding stereo outs. Audio captured in cubase, reverb added."

Creating a song with the Korg MS-20

YouTube via deused
"I thought it might be interesting for some of you to show you a video of me making a song with the MS-20

All the sound you hear are being made by the MS-20 , including the drum sounds.
I used a Doepfer MCV4 midi to CV converter to control the MS-20 with Logic Pro.

Hope you like it!!"