flickr by craigboney.I wonder if the player is just lying there under the piano waiting for his part.
MOOG Polymoog
Monday, February 12, 2007
Line @ Moog, Nottingham - 11 February 2007
flickr by craigboney.I wonder if the player is just lying there under the piano waiting for his part.
MOOG Polymoog
Analog Synthesizer factory patches
Title link takes you to a list of factory patch downloads on Analog Synthesizer Repair.via The Chip Collection
Looks like the link is gone. You can find it on the web archives here.
Roland System 100m
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction."The modules are 112 121 130 140 and 140 in a 5 module j-191 cabinet"
Roland SH-101
Title link takes you to a pretty big shot of this Roland SH-101 pulled via this auction. You can also click the image for the full sized shot.
Novation Supernova
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Details:
-Synthesis System: Analogue Sound Modeling.
-Polyphony: 24 voices for the standard Supernova II (expandable).
-Three oscillators, two ring modulators and one noise source per program.
-Eight different FM/Ring mod algorithms.
-Modulation matrix with over 130 possible routings.
-Eight-part multitimbrality.
-12-, 18- and 24-dB-per-octave resonant filter, configurable in low-pass, high-pass and band-pass modes, plus overdrive.
-Two LFOs.
-Effects: Distortion, Comb Filter, EQ, Reverb, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Quad Chorus, Ensemble, Rotary Speaker, Delay and Pan.
-42-band vocoder with sibilance modes and spectrum analyzer.
-Two balanced audio inputs, routable to filter, effects, and vocoder.
-Eight assignable outputs.
-1024 Programs in eight banks.
-512 multitimbral Performances in four banks.
-Built-in arpeggiator.
-All knobs and switches transmit MIDI Controllers and NRPNs.
-Flash-upgradable operating system via MIDI.
-Built-in power supply.
-MIDI In, Out, Thru.
-Optional 12- and 24-voice expander cards.
-Optional S/PDIF/ADAT digital I/O card.
Akai S612
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Haven't had an outdoor shot in a while.
More auction shots:
MATRIXSYNTH-B
There's a decent shot of the Korg MicroKorg on leather fit for The Museum of Techno guys.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Metasonix TM-7 "Robotspeak Edition" Tube Distortion
YouTube via chachijones. Metasonix Scrotum Smasher vs. Elektron Machinedrum. Robotspeak.
Metasonix posts
Elektron posts
MOOG Source
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Update via mtvic in the comments:
"Actually,Robert A. did not want to sign.
Me:"Robert would you be so kind and sign my Moog The Source owners manual?"
Bob:"Oh that thing "I had nothing to do with it. But, since it is a xerox copy, I"ll sign it ."
And did.
1985"
Minimoog Brochure
Title link takes you to one more shot pulled via this auction."Original and early, 1972 Minimoog synth brochure with 4 pages and color."
CGS Sequential Switch
Via pete:"What you are listening to are 5 VCO's modulating one Thomas Henry XR 2206 VCO through the switch. I have an LFO going into the Up/Down jack. Im using an SSM2044 filter. I have some of the gate outputs going to a multiple that is feeding the gates to two EG's. One of these EG's is modulating the filter. Another gate output is going to the Cynare which is set to more of a squelchy drum sound so its
kinda hard to hear since it blends in with everything else. I'm tweaking a bunch of things while its playing like the reset switch. Enjoy the wackiness!"You can find the mp3 here. Title link takes you to the Sequential Switch page on Ken Stone's CGS.
Update: Looks like I had the wrong mp3 up. The share has been updated. The track is titled "sequential switch MP3.mp3."
Wolfram's Nightmares
Title link takes you to a track by Stefan Trippler featuring the Waldorf PPG V2, Attack VSTI, some reverb and delay. Wolfram is Wolfram Franke of Waldorf.
Previous posts featuring Stefan Trippler
Previous posts featuring Stefan Trippler
EML Synkey
Title link takes you to a post on VSE where I pulled this image and a sample mirrored here.via JackAstro
Previous EML Synkey post
Sankey Keyboard?
g.m.c. sent in this image. He was told the manufacturer is Sankey. He's wondering if anyone has more info on it. If you do, please feel free to comment. I swear I've seen if not posted this particular keyboard before (if not something like it) but I came up dry on a search for Sankey, radio, and tuner.Update: Slabman found my previous post. It's the Webcor.
ZET Digital Sequencer
No title link. Just the shot and details pulled via this auction.Details:
"Sell ZET Electronics digitally to sequencers. Model MCS-1 Hab' unfortunately no information about the manufacturer still other background. The equipment has German Komunikationstexte in the display. One can provide various sequences on several traces."
If anyone knows more about this one, feel free to comment.
EEH DS500 Digital Sequencer
Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
via this auction
Details:
"The company EEH developed and built the CM2 and CM4 sequencer for TangerineDream, at that time Schulze,…. This model is the small brother DS500."
Udpate via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"More info on this hybrid sequencer"
via this auction
Details:
"The company EEH developed and built the CM2 and CM4 sequencer for TangerineDream, at that time Schulze,…. This model is the small brother DS500."
Udpate via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"More info on this hybrid sequencer"
Preliminary Data for the Model 21C Milton Touchplate Controller
Title link takes you to the full info. Some excerpts:
Outputs:
- Gate Out - returns a 5 volt high gate when a plate is touched
- Pressure out - returns a pot adjustable variable voltage which is governed by the amount of pressure applied to any given key
- Quantized Out - returns a quantized voltage string (16 half steps) generated by the 16 touchplates
- Slew Out - returns a pot-adjustable slewed variation of the Linear Voltage output (not quantized)
- Linear Out - returns 16 linear voltages scaled to the voltage threshold of the Milton Venti VC input.
Inputs:
EXT VC - provides a secondary external VC direction input so that the Milton may still be direction controlled when the 21C is installed. Indication of the effect of this external control will be shown on the main LEDs of the Milton M21 - they will not effect the status of the 16 key LEDs on the 21C itself - those will still show the last key touched.
Manual Controls:
- Pressure Scale - sets the maximum voltage level of the pressure output
- Glide - determines the amount of slew for the Slewed Output
-Fixed/Variable Range Select - sets the main output for FIXED range (scaled for Milton stage thresholds) or VARIABLE range
-Range - determines the maximum range of the main output. Each of the 16 keys will reflect 16 equal increments of this max level.
Outputs:
- Gate Out - returns a 5 volt high gate when a plate is touched
- Pressure out - returns a pot adjustable variable voltage which is governed by the amount of pressure applied to any given key
- Quantized Out - returns a quantized voltage string (16 half steps) generated by the 16 touchplates
- Slew Out - returns a pot-adjustable slewed variation of the Linear Voltage output (not quantized)
- Linear Out - returns 16 linear voltages scaled to the voltage threshold of the Milton Venti VC input.
Inputs:
EXT VC - provides a secondary external VC direction input so that the Milton may still be direction controlled when the 21C is installed. Indication of the effect of this external control will be shown on the main LEDs of the Milton M21 - they will not effect the status of the 16 key LEDs on the 21C itself - those will still show the last key touched.
Manual Controls:
- Pressure Scale - sets the maximum voltage level of the pressure output
- Glide - determines the amount of slew for the Slewed Output
-Fixed/Variable Range Select - sets the main output for FIXED range (scaled for Milton stage thresholds) or VARIABLE range
-Range - determines the maximum range of the main output. Each of the 16 keys will reflect 16 equal increments of this max level.
Time to get an ASB?
According to this electro-music.com thread, Creamware filed for bankruptcy on Dec 18, 2006. There is no info on thier site.If anyone knows more about this, please feel free to comment. This is unfortunate as I hear they make some of the best emulations if not THE best out there. I had my mind set on the PRODYSSEY (12 Odysseys in a knob laden little box). It might just be time to pick one up if you've been thinking about it as well.
EMS Synthi Boards
Title link takes you to a post on EMS Synthi with a bigger image of the EMS Synthi boards over the years. He is also looking for a hi res of the 1969-72 boards. If you know where to find one leave a comment in his post.
Synth Monger's SN-Voice
Two shots of Synth Monger's Thomas Henry SN-Voice. You might recognize it from this video."It's an SN-Voice synth I made. I combined it with a cut-down version of Ray Wilson's single buss keyboard controller."
E-mu Modular
No title link. Just the shots and details pulled via this auction. This is the E-mu modular referenced in this previous post.Details:
"You are bidding on an E-mu Systems analog synthesizer main cabinet. It contains 11 filters, three oscillators, 6 VCAs, four transient generators, two preamps and a filter controller. This sale is contingent on sale of the whole system as that sale takes precedence over the items listed separately. If someone buys the whole system, and you win the bid on this piece, you don't get this piece, it goes with the whole system.
I bought this E-mu in 1976. If you don't know about these, they are the finest analog synthesizer components ever made, except for the keyboard (sorry Dave and Scott). NASA buys these oscillators for use in the space program. I have never had to re-tune the oscillators ever, as they are rock solid. By comparison, I had to re-tune my minimoog about every 6 months. There are a couple of modifications to this. I replaced the output op-amps in the VCAs with 5534 types to lower the noise level. At one time, this cabinet powered the keyboard (see other listing) but I moved the keyboard power supply to the Oberheim main cabinet.
There's not much else to say, I replaced one of the little switches on one of the VCAs. It's all stock otherwise. At 80 lbs, you will have to get this shipped by DHL, and you can calculate those charges yourself by going to DHL online and get the quote from Albany CA. You might be better off picking up the cabinet between the end of the auction and Feb 19. After that I am leaving the country, so this sale has to be AS IS.
I hate to part with my baby (I named this keyboard 'Sarah' after an old girlfriend), but I have accepted a call from the lord to go to teach music for a church school in the Kingdom of Tonga. I have taught there before and I really like it down there, so I am looking forward to this experience, but I have to fund this myself as the church has very little money to pay me. So please bid generously! Malo e lelei!"
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Andrew Gadow /Techne - Auxons
For those of you near Surry Hills, Sydney, title link takes you to an art showing featuring Andrew Gadow /Techne - Auxons at Firstdraft Gallery. The show runs Wednesday January 31 to Saturday February 17, 2007.philT sent me a link to an interesting commentary on Signal To Noise where I read about the showing. The commentary is on breaking things down to it's essence. The following are a couple of excerpts.
"One guy whose name has been lost to us was approaching the whole video-sculpture nexus in a very literal way – he was breaking down VCRs, cameras and video projectors into their constituent parts while trying to keep the machines operating even when they were in pieces.. A video feed from a still working video camera relayed a jittery image to projector that threw an image on to a wall. Asked what he was doing with his ‘project’, the artist – surrounded by the gizzards of machines - fumbled for words eventually stating “What I’m trying to do is… I’m… taking it all back to signal.”
"The work of Andrew Gadow at Firstdraft and his show Techne – Auxons deals with similar territory. Like that long forgotten artist, Gadow is working with feed as the essential element of his project, creating a three gallery daisy chain that begins with a vintage Fairlight CVI - an 80s era video synthesizer that creates patterns and distorts images – producing an image which then feeds the audio output of the CVI into an audio synth in the next gallery which in turn creates audio that in turn is fed into another CVI before going through another iteration into the final gallery space."
Don't miss the rest on Signal To Noise.
Access Virus C
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Question: Should this have been a MATRIXSYNTH-B post? I was on the fence with this one.
ARTON ME-01
Click here for shots pulled via this auction.
Details:
"ARTON ME-01 is the floor guitar synthesizer. A little brother of the famous soviet analog guitar synths like LIDER-1 and Lider-2. A REALLY NICE ANALOG GUITAR SYNTHS AND MULTI FX PROCESSORS - LOOKS LIKE ROLAND GR-300 ANALOG GUITAR SYNTH BUT THE LIDER AND ARTON ME-01 IS MUCH MORE RARE. YOU CAN USE IT WITH SYNTHS AND GUITARS! IT WAS MANUFACTURED IN 1981 by FORMANTA, A SOVIET MILLITARY RADIO PLANT AT KACHKANAR CITY, NEAR SVERDLOVSK CITY. The same one wich manufactured now legendary POLIVOKS synth. It is built like a rock, pure military technology. The body is solid and the knobs feel nice."
E-mu Keyboard
This appears to be the other have of the previous post's auction. According to this auction, this is "the world's first commercially produced electronic musical instrument that contains a microprocessor"Details
"the world's first commercially produced electronic musical instrument that contains a microprocessor. If you're interested, it is a ceramic Zilog Z80 microprocessor. This system is the one Gary Hall wrote about in an editorial in Electronic Musician magazine in 1991. You are bidding on the whole system, and this sale takes precedence over the pieces listed separately here on eBay. The four pieces are: the E-mu 4060 keyboard serial number # 1, the E-mu main cabinet including 11 filters, three oscillators, 6 VCAs, 4 envelope generators, two preamps and filter controller, the Oberheim main cabinet including 5 SEM synthesizer modules and an 8-voice programmer, and the one Oberheim SEM in a separate single cabinet.
The keyboard does not work. It is merely a historical oddity at this point. All the rest do work last time I tried them. I'll focus on the keyboard here and you can search for the other items and read about them separately. I decided to buy an E-mu in 1976. At the time they told me (Scott and Dave) they were coming out with this new keyboard that contained a microprocessor. That's how I ended up with serial number # 1. If you look at the picture, you can see the guts of the keyboard: there's a main circuit board and a large memory board. The memory board is 128K - that's 128 1K memory chips!! This board doubled as a space heater!! In between you can see a little memory board. In 1991 I replaced the 128K board with a 256K chip - one chip replaced the 128 chips and doubled the capacity! The main board is a terrible example of design-for-manufacture (sorry Dave). It would be difficult to repair, all I know at this point is that the negative power supply is very unhappy, but it could be simply a bad tantalum capacitor. Since the keyboard does not have any kind of touch sensitivity (and never did) I think it is not really about using as a musical instrument, strictly a museum piece at this point.
The total shipping weight is 170 lbs in four pieces, but since the main cabinet is 80 lbs, it would have to go DHL."
via Kaden
Oberheim 6 SEM
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Details:
"6 Oberheim SEM (Synthesizer Expander Modules) and an 8-voice programmer. The programmer and 5 SEMs live in a custom walnut burl wood cabinet and the other SEM is in a stock Oberheim single SEM cabinet. There is an umbilical cable with a cinch jones connector on the single SEM that connects to the main cabinet, and a separate power cable for it (two cables on the single unit). The main cabinet has a power cable and connections for a non-working E-mu non-velocity sequencer keyboard, and the E-mu main cabinet. This sale is contingent on sale of the whole system as that sale takes precedence over the items listed separately.
This synthesizer is not something that you can buy, take home, plug in, and start playing on, unfortunately. But for those who know about these things, it is a very good sounding synthesizer system. The system was designed by Tom Oberheim, but the programmer was designed by his chief engineer at the time, Jim Cooper. Jim did what could be done at this time, but shortly after this, a lot more could be done (like the Prophet 5). So the programmer is more a historical oddity rather than something you might want to use. The two extra voices of programmer were connected to the E-mu main cabinet, and I know one of the programmable envelope generators for that part is no good. These were custom made chips and probably you won't find one. But the ones for the 6 SEMs were working the last time I tried them.
There have been some important modifications to the SEMs. I replaced the 3 op amps in the filter with TL072 chips, the main output chip with a 5532, and the control voltage summing amp with a Burr Brown OPA 21EZ. This made the tuning a lot more stable, and the sound a lot more open with lower noise. Since these synthesizers have a wonderfully buzzy character, these modifications enhanced the clarity of that sound. If you really like these synthesizers, you will not be dissappointed. There is also an 8 channel mixer (at the top in back) with 8 input controls and two output jacks. The stereo spread is fixed so that the pan goes from one side to the other as you march through the SEMs, although none is hard to one side. This mixer is made with 5534 op amps. There are two Oberheim power supplies (plenty of power) and a plus 5 volt supply that was for the keyboard (has no use now).
The shipping weight is 50 lbs for the main and 8 lbs for the separate cabinet."
via ISO50
Roland SH-2 Demos
Some samples via clusterchord on this VSE thread. Title link takes you to the mp3 host site, Tomislav Babic.
lead-to-thickbass
bass
blipp_brapp
warmlead
discrete_bass
dblsawlead-to-bass
pwbass_filter_sweep
selfosc_R2D2
square-pw-pwmseq
pwm_filter-sh
power
snappy_kicks_n_bleeps
selfosc->subbass
acid_LPB2UBE
lead-to-thickbass
bass
blipp_brapp
warmlead
discrete_bass
dblsawlead-to-bass
pwbass_filter_sweep
selfosc_R2D2
square-pw-pwmseq
pwm_filter-sh
power
snappy_kicks_n_bleeps
selfosc->subbass
acid_LPB2UBE
Elektropop with Spectralis
Title link takes you to a Radikal Technologies Spectralis demo on sequencer.de.
Letting rip on the Korgs
Title link takes you to a demo track of the Korg Legacy Edition on Loonytunes.
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