MATRIXSYNTH

Drum Machine

flickr by Bradley Allen
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Serge Modular

Dead Air Fresheners w/ Jennifer Robin

flickr by Dead Air

"Dead Air Fresheners with Jennifer Robin played the East End on Saturday, September 26th, 2009."

http://www.hamsterdunce.com/
A little synth art from the maker of The Packrat.

"Synths & keytars will probably make semi-regular appearances, mainly because I like them & I'm the man with the pen..."

Be sure to see Hamsterdunce for more.

BTW, check out the "matrix" Packrat on the right of this site for a little something Dave made me back in 2006. Very, very cool.

Update: you can also subcribe to Hamsterdunce here.

Vintage Red Synare S3X Analog Drum Synth

via this auction
"Looking more like a flying saucer than a percussion synthesizer, the Synare S3X, made between 1977-82, was the first affordable model for mostly anyone, and could run on batteries! It had 2 oscillators with no variable waveforms, a white noise generator, and a sweep function, ie. up, or down to get that descending "booooooooooooh" sound used ever so endlessly in disco records of the era. To get an idea of what these are capable of listen to the famous drum solo in Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein”. Oscillator 1 was the noise generator with a "tune" function. The Amplifier section had volume, attack, and decay controls. Also had a low-pass filter with cutoff, resonance, and decay controls. This one was professionally rebuilt and powdercoated in bright red to match the rest of the Tama drum kit that it once was a part of."

Update via brian in the comments: "Edgar Winter's Frankenstein has nothing to do with this. Nor is it similar - that's an ARP2600 played by hand while moving sliders on the Filter. There ARE many good examples of these drums on record though."

Wiard Borg and Boogie Filter

via these auctions

Circuit Bent CASIO DH-100, Alien synth sax

via this auction

if you can't afford the eigenharp, there is this...

"circuit bent CASIO DH-100 MIDI SAX.

Here is a list of the circuit bent features:

1. Super bright power ``on`` LED

2. 2 body contacts that change the tone and pitch and loudness of the sound when you touch them.

3. Envelope control knob for control over the attack of the sound.

4. Pitch range switch,switch down for low pitch mode,extends the lower sound limit of the sound.

5. 5 bend switches with range control add overtones and distortion and stuttering of the sounds."