MATRIXSYNTH

Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter Synthesizer w/MPG-80

Arturia Origin synthesizer

via this auction

"Check out Arturia's Web site at www.arturia.com, the new 1.3 update is due out shortly which includes the new jupiter 8. onboard compression among many other on going refinements. These retailed in 2008 at awave for 3800 +au dollars....! "

Yamaha PTX-8 Drum Triggers & Synthesis

via this auction
"Back in the day this was the bees knees. I was told when I purchased this that it was used in touring company lighting rigs, and that served for a big tourings bands triggering drums to lighting. He was quite proud of setting it up for a Phil Collins tour. If it made the lights go on and off during "In The Air Tonight", that's something I guess!

Designed to compliment cymbals and hats in the stage, also used in lighting rigs. This unit does not make these sounds unless you have a cartridge with these sounds on them! The concept was that hats and such took up less room to lug around on tour. You'd use trigger pads for Kick, Snare + Toms, and just mix up the other instruments in the desk.

They were the quickest triggering available in their day, and still hold there own against modern units. SOLID! The manual is HERE so you can see how useful and diverse the programming is, it's better than me rambling on. Sealed's Deep Synthesis has some sound samples and more info, and some mp3 sound samples.

Serial Is #01009. 240v version. No cartridges included. The power plug is on 6 foot cord. 8 Individual ins for your pads or switches (I've used both - very customizable sensitivity in kits enables mixing and matching of different sorts). 8 Individual Outs, as well as Mix Outs and a headphone socket on the front (with Volume control). Memory Up and Down and "Foot Switch" sockets around the back as well as the Midi In/Out/Thru we've all grown to know and loathe.

You can make some really amazing sounds with this unit, especially when combined with actual drum triggers or playing with velocity sensitive pads of some kind. Sounds can bend in pitch up, or, more usefully down. Really perfect for Dropping the bass in Dubstep, Breakcore of Grime tracks. Also lets you "Loop" the waveform. The sounds are synthesized using an attack and sustain part of the wave, this will loop the sustain. Radical pitches and loops allow for all sorts of glitchy chaos to be generated."

Also see the seller's 24 Unit Rack.

Maxim MDS-1000 Analog Drum Brain - Simmons SDS V Clone

via this auction

via the seller:

"This is a mighty piece of engineering.
In a time when analog filter chips were plentiful, and XLR connectivity apparantly grew on trees, a company in Japan no-one has really heard of since (not the Maxim that made pedals) decided skimp on R&D and just Clone the leading competition with a product almost identical, but "unique" and "different"...

Each card has an SSM2044, some 3080s and a few other nice pieces. Some of the digital chips (patch switching for example) might be a bit flaky... There's no MIDI, the triggers work at different velocities. You could use all the outputs on the PTX8 I'm selling to drive this. It kind of works (I tried it once)."

inside a Maxim MDS-1000

Also see the seller's 24 Unit Rack.

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Arbot

Arbot by alienrobotdance
"First finished track of 2011...

Juno 60 (bass), JX3P (funk and chords), Ableton."

Vector Weapon - for Make Magazine

YouTube via ChrisLody | January 04, 2011 |

"Here's a lofi circuit i built that makes laser gun type sounds that should be featured in Make Magazine some time soon:

http://makezine.com/"

Buchla Hall of Mirrors

flickr By buchlajoe
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"I am tempted to put a thin piece of black tape in between them .... but I can't bring myself to deface Don's work ;)"

It's real minimoog

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She's looking good for 40

Moog Voyager XL

Five G

flickr By jboberg

"Well, for someone like me its obligatory to visit this store. It's impressive but... its just a store.

Black & white Japan set"

Psychic Modulation Dubtron

"Dubtron is an Experimental Bass Synth designed for dubstep wobble bass, and more obscure bass sounds. Dubtron's two oscillator sections utilize a special Unison detune feature where each voice has it's own width control as well as drifting for a slow phasing effect. The filter's each have a 'Wub' generator, which is the main feature responsible for that wobble effect. Layer in a sub oscillator and you've got a serious bass machine. These features along with various randomizers and FM capabilities give an experimental edge to your basslines, allowing for Dubtron to be used not only for bass, but also for unexpected, even atmospheric sounds.

# 2 Unison Pulse Oscillators with multiple wave shapes
# 1 Sub Oscillator with FM capabilities
# 2 Filters with Graphical Envelopes
# Wub section for each filter, produces the classic dubstep wobble
# Randomizer for wub rate, filter cutoff and Sub FM
# FX section ranging from flanger to bathtub style delay
# Wub speed is set to key range and can be reversed
# Wub can be retriggered by each bar to ensure beat matching"