Kurzweil 250 RMX

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"Kurzweil 250 RMX, 6U rack version of the K250 keyboard, with all four soundblocks. This is the classic instrument developed for Stevie Wonder and used by all the top film composers through the '80s and '90s, for example the Lethal Weapons series. I believe Paul Shaffer still plays the keyboard version on the David Letterman show, but if not he did for years. The K250 was originally $20,000 by the time you added all the options (which this has). When they came out with the RMX, it was one of the first rack versions of a keyboard nobody wanted to carry around... The audio quality is just impeccable, with XLR transformer balanced outs, a very high internal sample rate, and a massive power supply inside - I'd estimate the weight of the unit to be 50 pounds. Kurzweil later released some of the K250 sounds in the 1000 PX series, but the 250 has all of them and sounds considerably bigger."

Flame MIDI Talking Synth synthesizer

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"Very fun little box. Two joysticks and a bunch of knobs and toggle switches control two Speakjet synth engines. Records your joystick movements and plays them back while you tweak. Slap a nice analog delay on this thing and your grinning like a monkey.

Here's more details from the very excellent Shawn Cleary at Analogue Haven: [note the following is of course the product description from Flame]: 'The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small-sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation LLC. Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue it was then refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speech-like sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps, alarms, noise and retro-style sci-fi sounds. Due to the structure of the Speakjet (with its complex sound synthesizer, preset sounds and serial interface) it offers an impressive range of possibilities. It contains 72 speech elements (allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 DTM touch tones. The idea was to create sounds, patterns and sequences in the 8-bit style of the 80s or other retro sounds for making music instead of just simulating speech. Most allophones can be tuned and used tonally. The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH contains two Speakjet chips to produce a richer and more complex tonal variety as well as generating a pseudo stereo effect.

Since the Speakjet has not originally been laid out for the purpose of making music it is actually not fully controllable via MIDI input, i.e.: once sounds are triggered they cannot be directly stopped by Note Off messages from a MIDI keyboard or a sequencer. Thus a MIDI-controlled audio tremolo has been implemented in the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH virtually allowing MIDI control and enabling an easier integration into a MIDI setup. The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH lets you play back preset words in its EXPANDER mode via an external MIDI keyboard or a sequencer. In addition you can use the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH as a stand-alone MIDI controller since all controls and joysticks send MIDI control/change data to the MIDI-OUT connector.'"

Sold For: US $475.00

CME VX7 Midi Controller Keyboard w/ Plugiator ASX

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"CME VX7 controller with "Use Audio" analog modeled synthesizer expansion. Original box. Version 1.9 firmware. Semi weighted keys, programmable velocity, after touch. Motorized faders. U-Control to facilitate use with DAW software... The Plugiator turns the CME VX/UF models into an analog modeled synthesizer. DSP based with 7 possible synthesizers from a MiniMoog clone, to a drum and bass line. DSP modeling. Includes registration numbers for all 7 plug-ins."

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MUTRONICS Mutator MIDI Stereo analog SSM filter

via this auction, via the forum

"MUTRONICS Mutator Stereo analog FX unit with the very rare SSM filters and original MIDI interface... Gorgeous booming analog Low Pass self-oscillating stereo filter and envelope follower with 4 waveforms LFO. Can be controlled by MIDI or CV (control voltage)."

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'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' by Burnkit2600

YouTube via burnkit2600

"Burnkit2600 pay homage to one of their most influential bands with a psychedigital cover of The Beatles' song, 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' - one of John Lennon's most playfully visual songs, and one of the group's (and of course George Martin's) most experimental productions.
This song was created expressly for the 8-BIT OPERATORS 2009 tribute compilation 'Wanna Hld Yr Handheld'. (8bitoperators.com/beatles/)
The video was made with archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive in association with Prelinger Archives. (www.archive.org)"

Moogs with Lights and New Studio

flickr by Nova Musik
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http://novamusik.com

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Brett Domino: Hip-Hop Medley - Stylophone Beatbox

YouTube via brettdomino. via Doktor Future in the comments of this post.
"Myself and Steven Peavis performing a medley of our favourite hip-hop songs, entirely on the new Stylophone Beatbox instruments.

Featuring:
'Rapper's Delight' - Sugar Hill Gang.
'Jump Around' - House of Pain.
'Boom! Shake The Room' - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.

The Stylophone Beatbox will be in the shops from November. Also at Firebox, Amazon and HMV online.

http://www.brettdomino.com"

Timeline of Patchable Synths

via O'Reilly

Richard Lainhart caught the Synket, pictured below, was missing.

from the EMF Institute:
"The Synket (for 'Syn' thesizer 'Ket' off) was designed and built by Paul Ketoff in Rome, Italy, in 1964. Commissioned by the American Academy in Rome for its electronic music studio, it was a small, portable, keyboard-based performance-oriented synthesizer.

Its principal performer was John Eaton, who used it to compose and perform his Songs for RPB, for soprano, piano, and Synket, first performed at the American Academy in Rome in April 1965.

[below]: John Eaton seated behind the Synket in 1964."


See this post for one possibly shown at the 'Musee de la musique' in Paris.

Jomox T-Resonator Fun

YouTube via ovuori
"I made some experiments with my Jomox T-Resonator, toying with some minimal bleeps from Electribe EMX-1. T-Resonator is an outstanding effect/instrument (after tweaking it, I'm not sure which one it is). I bought it a couple of months ago to make some send effect modifications to tracks, which were quite boring. For this video, some extreme settings and a lot of feedbacks were used, so it is not necessarily a good demonstration of this product as such. T-Resonator is a very nice effect, when used with care.

Source bleeps can be heard at the beginning and in some locations in the middle of the video. Bass drum is Jomox MBase 01 and hihats are from EMX-1 + Kaoss Pad 3 as send effect. No additional modifications were made to the sound of T-Resonator, but a limiter was used when mixing tracks together.

I found there are same kind of videos about T-Resonator from Big City Music and those are better demonstration of this product. This video was created purely for fun :)"

Acid Fun with EMX-1 midi

YouTube via ovuori
"A short, improvised, live acid session using EMX-1 as midi controller and sequencer. All notes are played using EMX-1 and sent via midi to Cubase 4, where one instance of ADM and two instances of ABL2 are played. Bass drum midi notes are routed from EMX-1 to Jomox MBase 01. EMX-1 is totally quiet.

There is also some reverb from RE-20 space echo, which was external send effect in Cubase.

This was a kind of proof of concept that EMX-1 and Cubase work pretty well using this setup, even with external effects. Making this setup and playing/toying with it was fun.

This was also my second try to upload stereo material to Youtube.. No, it does not work by default."