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Vintage Korg Synthe Bass

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"Lou Barlow said this is his favorite synth in a documentary. Also favorites for bands like Soft Cell and Cars, etc. Korg's Synthe-Bass (model SB 100) is a small 2-octave monophonic bass synth that had a very fat sound. It has one oscillator, an AD Envelope and a low-pass filter. Small and portable, it came in a brief-case design. Unlike many portable synths of the time, it featured full size keys... this Korg Synthe-Bass was just serviced by Mtroniks in Mesa."

Roland CR-68 Classic Analog Drum Machine with Mods

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"This is the baby brother to the CR-78- essentially same sounds and rhythms, but no programmable beats... The "cool mods" are separate outputs for the Bass Drum, Snare and HiHat sounds (see the rear pics) The sound of these individual outputs is still affected by the 'Balance' control (basically the HiHat gets louder or softer)
The main outputs work normally. the 3 additional 1/4 in jacks to the left of the 3 individual outs don't appear to be hooked to anything"

Roland TR-808 Drum Machine

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Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm

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"Roland CR-78 Analog Drum Machine (actually they called it a Rhythm machine or CompuRhythm) Programmable!" If you're a songwriter, just hit a preset and it just "fits' what you're playing. It's not "rigid", like a lot of electronic drums. It's not an accident it was used on all those hits. PLUS this thing sounds incredible with real drums playing along. (Everyone knows the Phil Collins part on "in the Air Tonight" where the Cr-78 gives way to that great live drum fill-kinda makes them explode) You can program it, but incredibly A LOT of artists just used the presets!

Here's a link to an alternative (and much improved) to the ws-1 programmer, hard to find and not as versatile as the new CR78-PGM ( I think it's a czech company) Any CV converter with clock out could probably program it, but for serious stuff get the programmer, it could really make this machine fly."

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Roland CompuRhythm CR-68

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VINTAGE 1980 Roland BOSS Dr-55 Dr. Rhythm

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Roland SVC-350 Vocorder

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"You are bidding on a vintage Roland SVC-350 Vocoder and it is the first truly sophisticated Vocoder to be priced within range of most musicians. The primary function of the Roland Vocoder is to analyze the spoken or sung human voice and use this information (or program) to trigger another musical signal (or carrier) giving the instrument the ability to 'speak.' This vocal synthesis is accomplished by processing the voice through a series of eleven Voice Character analysis filters. All of the filters within the Voice Character control are active and control an envelope follower which reacts according to the volume of that individual frequency. This information is then used to shape those frequencies of the carrier (musical instrument) signal.

The Roland Vocoder uses 10 filters for vowel sounds and there is also an extra filter with an extremely high slew rate allowing it to respond to the rapid transients of hard consonants, like the 'T' in the word-Today. This consonant filter is a feature not found even on higher priced vocoders. The Roland Vocoder allows for both balanced and unbalanced program inputs and outputs and contains a special guitar input that permits attenuation of the guitar harmonics. Another remarkable feature of the Roland Vocoder is a special Hold feature that locks on to the vowel sound quality so that one vowel sound does not have to be continually repeated while you play your instrument. With other features like the Ensemble effect, Headphone Output, as well as guitar amp and line outputs, the Roland Vocoder is truly the next step in musical instrument effects.

SPECIFICATIONS:
Microphone Input (program): 1/4 phone jack or XLR connector 600 ohm -54 dBm min.
Instrument Input (carrier): 1/4 phone jack 100 k ohm guitar raw level
Guitar Amp Output: 1/4 phone jack 5 k ohm
Mono/Stereo Output: 1/4 phone jacks
Dimensions: 19(W)x 3.6(H) x 9.7(D) in."

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