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A pre-owned Novation Bass Station 2 in good condition. It has fairly yellowed keys and no original packaging but comes with a power supply
Manufacturer's description
Bass Station II is a paraphonic analogue synthesiser that comes packed with two flexible oscillators, an extra sub-oscillator, two filters, two LFOS, sequencing and arpeggiation, and more. You'll find it all wrapped in a compact, portable design, complete with 25 great-feeling, full-size keys with aftertouch.
KEY FEATURES
Two analogue oscillators plus sub-oscillator
Two gritty-sounding filters
Overdrive, distortion, and more
Flexible modulation
Built-in sequencing and arpeggiator
Incudes AFX and Paraphonic modes"
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A pre-owned Dave Smith Mopho SE in good condition. It has fairly yellowed keys and no original packaging but comes with a power supply
Manufacturer's description
It’s a Bigger Badder Mopho!
Mopho SE builds upon the same award-winning analog, subtractive synth voice architecture of the Mopho and packages it in an ideally sized, three-and-a-half-octave, portable package. Use it to create the same huge basses, creamy leads, and percolating sequences that made the original Mopho everyone’s favorite micro mono synth.
The Mopho Sings!
The Mopho SE voice is composed of two analog oscillators, two sub octave generators, selectable 2- or 4-pole famed Curtis low-pass filter, three 5-stage envelope generators, four LFOs, a re-latchable arpeggiator, and a 16 x 4 step sequencer. Its voice also comes packed with 20 modulation sources and almost 50 destinations!
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A pre-owned Roland MKS-50 in good condition. It has a few blemishes on the top and bottom as is typical for a rack mount unit.
Manufacturer's description
The MKS-50 is a rack-mount version of the Alpha Juno. It has the same synth engine and architecture, with some added features like 16 programmable chord memories, the ability to store velocity, volume, panning, de-tune, portamento and other similar parameters within each patch you create. The optional and highly recommended PG-300 will give you traditional slider type control of all editable tone parameters which include DCO (digitally controlled oscillators) LFO, bend, ENV, pulse, waveforms, noise, PW/PWM, high pass filter, VCF (filter) with freq/env/res/LFO/kybd, VCA envelope, chorus, and more."
"Here's a fun one and something stupidly simple, really easy to use, small, affordable but way more useful than you might think. It's the Low Fat VCF from AJH Synth, which is a 2HP non resonant (it's supppppeeeer smooth) high pass filter.
I think my favourite thing is using it to pair with low pass filters and to make a variable width band pass filter. It's also nice as a simple "clean up the mix" tool, as a pseudo spectral sidechain, multiband ducking style device or just for performance sweeping low end out of things."
"The Low Fat filter packs a switchable 6dB and 12dB slope High Pass Voltage controlled Filter into a miniscule 2HP of rack space, with a very low power consumption of less than 12mA per rail.
Sometimes there is just too much bottom end in a patch and it swamps everything else, by feeding it through the Low Fat Filter we can remove some of this bottom end to balance things up.
It also makes a great companion to the MiniMod Transistor Ladder Filter and can be placed before or after this in a patch to create a Band Pass filter with a variable passband and a choice of a softly rolling 6dB slope or a stronger 12 dB slope.
It's a great way to populate one of those frustrating gaps in your eurorack modular case with something that is deceptively usefuI.
In Depth
The LOW FAT is a new 2hp Eurorack module by AJH Synth, it's a High Pass filter, with frequency control by either manual pot, and/or external CV with attenuator. It's intended to compliment other filters, particularly low pass VCF modules, in practical tasks such as removing excessive low frequencies, for example when the bass is swamping a mix. It can be switched between 6dB (1 pole) response and 12dB (2 pole) response.
By patching a CV signal to the FCV input it can be voltage-controlled and used musically as with any other VCF. When used in conjunction with a LP filter it forms a fully customisable band pass filter, allowing the range of passbands to be cherry-picked. Feeding in a 1V/Oct pitch CV and setting the FCV pot to a suitable level allows it to track an incoming pitch CV, so the amount of High Pass filtering remains constant as the pitch of the incoming VCOs traverse up and down the frequency range. This can be particularly useful in creating percussive sounds, such as snares and hats, but also on sequenced bass lines. Since it is only 2HP it's a great way to occupy one of those frustrating gaps in your eurorack modular case with something that is deceptively useful, and adds another dimension to the classic bass monster that is the Transistor Ladder Filter."
"This was an instagram post that turned out to be a pretty darn good exploration of Chromaplane through Sparks and Big Time, so I'm tossing it on Youtube for those of you who are on the hunt for more Big Time audio examples. It’s admittedly busy sonically, but sometimes I just love making a big pot of sonic gumbo.
The modular stuff is a series of homegrown samples being processed by Multigrain, Arbhar, and Morphagene.
If you like these kinds of sounds, grab a copy of my sample pack Bokeh-- it's loaded with sounds from this universe that you can use in your music.
"Revision 2 boards of Alleykat built, used for fault finding, and after some fixes and component tweaks, running fine.
Revision two told me all i need to make what i hope to be the third and final revision a flawless build. And in the in between days of night shifts, perpetual jet lag, asking myself what is the point of anything and sleeping, in the words of Picard, i shall make it so....."
"TR-6oh6 is a CPU upgrade and MIDI interface for the Roland TR-606. It adds an improved sequencer, additional instruments, live performance features and MIDI. https://tubbutec.de/tr-6oh6/
In this tutorial we show most of the new feaures: Pattern programming, Track programming, Live tools and configuration."
0:36 Introduction 1:52 PATTERN WRITE 1:53 New instruments 4:13 Per step levels 5:03 Tap and clear 5:13 Instrument pattern generator
