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Korg Prophecy
Korg MS2000
? Anyone know what it is?
Update via Brian in the comments:
"That would be a Yamaha SY85 - gotta love sliders!!!!!"
Friday, November 09, 2007
Where's me cape?
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Korg Prophecy
Korg MS2000
? Anyone know what it is?
Update via Brian in the comments:
"That would be a Yamaha SY85 - gotta love sliders!!!!!"
Admin: Note on YouTube Videos
It looks like YouTube changed their embedded player behavior again. Playlists no longer show the number of videos in the little movie reel looking clips on the right of the player. It just goes from one video to the next. With that, be sure not to miss any with multiple videos like the genoQs set I put up earlier as well as the ARP Avatar set. If you missed the other videos in the sets thinking they were just a repeat of the first video, go check them out. The genoQs has three vids with the third being an instructional video of what happened in the second. It is a really good video that shows you a bit of the interface on the genoQs. The other Avatar vids showcase a wider range of sounds as well as the Roland Space Echo. All good stuff.
Analog Man Chorus Pedals
I try to stay clear of effects unless they are designed specifically with synths in mind, or they come highly recommended for use with synths. Synth80s posted a link to Analog Man Chorus Pedals with the following notes. I wanted to bookmark the site and his notes, so I asked him if I could put up a post. He gave me the OK.via Synth80s:
"I picked up an analog bi-chorus last year with the true stereo option and the 3-position DEEP toggle switch which changes the frequency spectrum of the chorus. I've found it to be very impressive on guitar, synth and (my favorite application) CP-70. It really nails the late '70s to early '80s chorus sounds I love (think Peter Gabriel's "Melting Face" album).
Officially, it's an Electro-Harmonix clone by design, but it was sufficiently Boss/Roland-ish for me to ditch my Boss CE-300. Like any analog chorus, it can get a bit noisy at extreme settings, but the payoff is in the quality of the sound. The DEEP toggle is really useful when you're trying to find just the right chorus for the source.
While I've never used a real Dimension D or CE-2, the UAD-1 plug-ins are also fantastic, unlike any other chorus plugs I've every used and better than the chorus sound on most outboard digital effects units I've ever used."
Update via WindowsLicker in the comments:
"I own several of his pedals and they are worth every penny. I'm in the process of getting this pedal and this is considered to be THE best chorus pedal you can get your hands on today. The design is based on the Electro Harmonix Small Clone but Analogman worked with the original EH Clone designer and was able to improve on the circuitry to come up with an even better pedal than the small clone.
For the same money of the Analogman chorus, i could pick up a vintage Boss CE-1 which is considered the holy grail of chorus pedals, but then there is always the issue of it failing because of its age.
Glad to see pedals included in MS for once!"
EML 400/401
images via this craigslist post. Another via Ben of mus-ok."EML 400/401 analog synth / 32 step sequencer. This synth is in virtually mint condition and recently serviced by Ed Miller."
Be sure to check these out full size.
EML 101
images via this craigslist post. Note this is for sale via Ben of mus-ok. Be sure to click the All Sizes link for the full size shots. You can click the image in this post for the full size as well.
Roland JX-8P and Juno-60
YouTube via Analogger.
"Two great Roland synths together. The midi note data is also being converted to a control voltage which modulates the Juno-60's filter. The hold button on the Juno sustains a drone chord."
Roland MKS-70 "Super JX" Analog Synthesizer
YouTube via retrosound72.
"some factory sounds from the Roland MKS-70 "Super JX" recorded with a small pocket camera"
MFB Synth Lite
YouTube via DjPuzzle73.
"MFB Synth Lite demonstration.
# two oscillators with range, tuning, and saw or square waveforms
# oscillator sync
# ring mod
# LFO with three waveforms and oscillators or filter as a destination
# glide with three settings
# four pole moog style filter with contour
# two ADS(R) envelope generators with selectable release (release time = decay time)
# MIDI in with velocity and mod wheel modulation routings
# external audio input"
Introducing The Harvestman Polivoks VCF
The mystery module (scroll) revealed.Now in-stock and ready for shipment from Analogue Haven.
"The Harvestman is proud to present the first widely available modular release of the Polivoks filter circuit. The filter is made via a collaboration with the synth's original designer, Vladimir Kuzmin, and Shawn Cleary of Analogue Haven. The filter circuit is identical to the original design and uses the exact same schematic as the Polivoks synthesizer as well as new old stock Soviet integrated circuits (KR140UD1208 and KR140UD608, not Western "equivalents"). A signal mixer and bipolar CV multiplier were added in order to use the filter within the modular realm but no other additions are present. This helps to preserve the unique and unstable sound character without compromising signal flow authenticity.
First sold in the USSR in 1982, the Polivoks was the first voltage-controlled Soviet synthesizer. Boasting an impressive set of features comparable to Western designs, the synthesizer was noted for its extremely aggressive sound, particularly within the filter. Easy to overload, unstable at high Q values, and self-oscillating with a dirty pulse.
Specifications:
Made in cooperation with Vladimir Kuzmin
Manual and voltage-controlled cutoff frequency
Manual control of resonance
Bipolar CV input multiplier
2-input signal mixer (easily overdrives filter)
Low- and bandpass outputs
Original Soviet integrated circuits - no capacitors used in the design!
Panel size: 10HP"
Click here for more info. via Scott Sebastian Jaeger of The Harvestman as well as bbob.
For more info on the legendary russian synthesizer, the Polivoks, see these posts (be sure to scroll).
E-Mus via VEMIA
More up for auction on VEMIA.E-Mu Drumulator
E-Mu Emulator II
E-Mu Emulator
E-Mu SP-12
Click here for the full set of posts featuring VEMIA items. Note that there or more items for auction on the VEMIA site. These are just some of the images sent my way via Peter Forrest.
Cygnet
YouTube via stretta.
"Cygnet is an extension of the original fourths application. First, it grew the ability to play different grid configurations, then I added a 4-tap delay, then I added an 8-track sequencer. I created this to realize a piece of music which I'm still working on. The max patch is far enough along to create a demonstration video, and share with the patch with the monome community. Hopefully at some point in the future, I'll be able to share a real music statement and not simply a bunch of noodling.
Additional information and the software can be downloaded at stretta.com"
Would be nice if it the monome had velocity sensitivity. ;)
MC-909 // Virus // Equipment test 2: Mindless Techno ;)
YouTube via siedgey.
"Evening all...here's another wee video I made today in a couple of hours. I managed to beat the last video's record of a 2 bar loop. Yup, this is 1 bar. It's created with 909 on drums, CS6x on sub bass, Virus on bleeps, bloops, bass stab and pad. Tweakalizer is used to fun things up a bit. No samples.
I also cock it all up royally in the middle somewhere, but it's only a test track so it doesn't matter to me. Thanks all for watching again. Hope you're not getting bored of these test vids - once I've got to grips with the Virus fully I'll start producing proper again!"
D-Lab Electronics Multi Plexer
images via this auction
Details:
"GETLOFI.Com
The Multi-Plexer will produce those famous sounds that you grew up hearing on Lost and Space, The Forbidden Planet, Star Trek and other Sci-Fi classics. The name was assigned, simply because that’s what it does. The circuit sends an analog signal around in a circle, bending and distorting it, like a ring modulator. However, the MP is a FREE RUNNING Synth. No input is required for it to operate. But if you input a signal (like your guitar) it will ride the MP self generated wave. The end product is a result of many manipulations. I cannot describe its sounds in words. Please listen to the links and judge for yourself.
Multi-Plexer.MP3
Multi-Plexer.MP3
Multi-Plexer.Wav
Circuit:The circuit is a basic pure Analog Synth (not noisy digital) with Depth, Sustain, Impact, Rate, Frequency and Volume adjustments. Only TOP Quality components were utilized. “Spared no expense” The circuit board was custom manufactured using a photo-etch system. It runs on 2- 9vdc batteries (included). Totally isolated circuit will not produce hum or ground loops on your Guitar amp or stereo as other plug in the wall synths do. This is a great gadget to add to your rock band as a creepy, self running, sound generator. It’s also a lot of fun to just play with on your home stereo. This device runs at a low frequency, therefore, it responds well to Bass guitars and keyboard inputs. It's initial design was intended for generation of neat sound effects. The input jack came later.
Check out the MP3 files that my friend in OK sent me (see links above). The original circuit was developed in the 1970’s. 30 of them have sold on the ebay so far. See my feedback for great comments on this device. This gadget is not available anywhere besides D-Lab. In other words, you will be getting a very unique item. My investment per unit is $70.00 (parts), excluding numerous hours of layout and construction time. The cost have elevated due to the cosmetic upgrades. I am doing my best to provide a top notch product. I realize that my gadget is small league compared to the big hitters (Moog, Paia & Korg). I just hope that you enjoy it. Bands around the country have been e-mailing me with great reports incorporating the Multi-Plexer's weird sound into their gigs. This device is great for Band Background weird noise or making your instrument act crazy!
This device is intended for fun or interface with your band equipment, not for development of a new Outer Limits episode. The cost is much less than store bought models and it is fully portable, unlike anything else on the market. Please e-mail me with questions or concerns before bidding. Unit comes with a nifty overview sheet for operating this crazy instrument."
Farfisa SoundMaker
Univox Mini-Korg Service Manual
via this auction. Note the seller has a ton of other up for auction. I'm just grabbing the screens of a few I find interesting.
Vember Audio Short Circuit Free Sampler
"Sampling is supposed to be funPrior to shortcircuit it wasn't as fun as it could be.
Shortcircuit was created as a reaction against the ongoing trend where software samplers are being designed with the primary intent of library playback. It is intended for people who, like us, consider a sampler to be a musical instrument in its own right, and not just a way to emulate other instruments. It has been a very high priority to make sure that adding and editing individual samples is as fast and logical as possible.
The sample hierarchy in shortcircuit allow you to place samples directly at the highest level of the multi, without having to deal with instrument hierarchies and patches. Want to add a sample to your song? Just drag & drop the sample into shortcircuit and you're ready to go. Samples can be put in groups for multi-sampling and kit-building, but the complexity is only there when you need it.
let your ears be the judge
Sound quality is of highest concern, and shortcircuit uses very high-quality interpolation to ensure that your samples sound as good as the source material, regardless of the pitch you play them at. All filters & effects are calculated at the precision required for them to sound the way intended and oversampling are used when required to prevent aliasing.Shortcircuit was designed to sound great, all other concerns have been secondary. But don't take our word for it, download 'shortcircuit free' and find out for yourself.
...and the toys, don't forget the toys!
Each voice in shortcircuit features two filter-slots, and the selection isn't limited to the traditional pick. In addition to the regular lowpass/highpass/bandpass/notch & peak-filters and variations thereof there is an array of filter algorithms (not strictly filters in the traditional sense, but called so because of their location in the audio path) including distortion, parametric/graphic/morphing equalizers,bit-reduction/decimation, gating, limiting, slew-rate distortion, ring-modulation, frequency shifting and phase-modulation (better known as FM). The selection even includes analog-style oscillators that you can mix with the sample."
[link]
NuDSP Mod271
" Mod271 pronounced as "Mode" (the 271 being a play on Euler's constant) is really a DSP playground with unified audio/MIDI support and functionally is supposed to exist somewhere in between Reaktor, reacTable and Reason (although this isn't the case quite yet). I will refer to Mod271 as M271 throughout the documentation.This all started out as my own personal frustration with clumsy knobs and sliders in current use by most audio software. I wanted to have an intuitive interface with variable resolution control built-in. The entire interface is rendered in 3D, so you can zoom in and out with the mouse wheel. Zooming in on a node will give you more precise control over its position, zooming out does the opposite.
Really I wanted an environment where there is no different between MIDI or audio signals, so an audio effect will work the same with a MIDI signal. Also I wanted an integrated way to handle envelopes, something that has a direct and visual connection with a node, this ended up meaning the removal of the GUI all together, there is only one interface for everything :) PCs are fast enough now to make this happen.
I'd like M271 to end up as a total modular environment where you can easily make performances just as easy as a synthesizer or effect.
Some cool features include:
* ASIO/MIDI support
* built with portability in mind, a mac/linux version shouldn't be terribly difficult.
* everything is a full audio-rate signal which means you can do DSP type stuff to say a MIDI stream.
* there is a VSTi version in the works but it is still pretty unusable in a general case.
* every node can be automated with unlimited control points and automation takes place right in the 3D environment.
* nodes can influence any amount of other nodes or switched into a singular state.
* all signals are drawn at audio rate and with full hardware acceleration, although this can be disabled.
* the entire environment is rendered in 3D.
* radial and linear influence modes are supported for every node.
* all envelopes and motion are completely sample accurate, meaning you can make an oscillator out of an envelope.
* over 25 node types, of course this is going to grow.
* Python node type that will allow easy extensions.
* and most importantly it's fun! "
Click here for more including the download. Via CDM.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre
Click here for a video on CNet covering this year's Vintage Computer Festival. The Con Brio makes an appearance at about 2:09 left.
via James Grahame of the excellent Retro Thing.
Two Studio Pics via Scott Metzger
I spy with my synth eye...Yamaha CS80
Prophet VS Rack
E-mu E6400
? You fill the rest
ARP Avatar - 6 videos
YouTube via 123synthland. Up for auction here. Note there are six videos in this set.
"We deal in vintage synthesizers, but you already know that. :) Here's the ARP Avatar we've currently got up for sale. The Avatar is essentially a keyboard-less version of the ARP Odyssey that was designed to be played by either a guitar or a CV Gate instrument like an old vintage keyboard with 1 volt per octave and gate outputs or an analog sequencer.
These days most people use them with a MIDI to CV converter or a guitar. These are pretty rare. They're often without the guitar pickup or their guitar circuitry isn't working right. This particular one was tested with a guitar, works well and comes with the hard to find guitar pickup as well. This series of video clips features the Avatar, with occasional help from a few other items we're unloading - a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Roland SH-101 Blue and Oberheim Mini-Sequencer. All of the sounds are coming from the Avatar in all except 1 video where the SH-101 is patched through the filter together with the Avatar's oscillators. The reverb and delay effects are courtesy of the Roland Space Echo and any sequences you hear come from the Oberheim Mini-Sequencer and/or the SH-101. Several of these videos show just the ARP triggering itself, without a sequencer. Enjoy, and email me anytime at minime123@onebox.com"
The ARP Ensemble Organ
There was some discussion of the ARP Ensemble Organ on AH.From Ivan:
"I finally found the photo!? Took me a few hours of digging through back copies of Musical Merchandise review.? It is from the August 1974 issue and was shown at the June 1974 NAMM show: link [pictured]
So what David has is the same unit that was called the "Arp Ensemble."? Evidently it was sold with a Pro Soloist to make it a three-manual organ per the letter I got from a dealer ages ago: [link]
While searching for this info I also found a pic of the rare double-keyboard Mellotron: [link]"
Previously from Dave Hillel Wilson of the New England Synthesizer Museum had to say:
"It helps to remember that the ARP String Ensemble IV was really the Solina, manufactured by Eminent and rebadged by ARP. I bought a Pro Soloist a few years back from someone who told me it was the top keyboard on an organ. I played this organ and it sounded amazing, so I bought it for the Museum. It is called the Eminent 310, and is similar to the 310 U used by Jean-Michel Jarre."
images mirrored here
Update via Milo Johnson in the comments:
"That "double keyboard Mellotron" looks to be the Mellotron/Novatron Mark V prototype, and the year would be correct for it. There were 28 or 30 units made before the company finally folded. The Mellotron Mark I, Mark II, and SFX Consoles were all double-keyboard models as well, and there were an approximate total of 500 two-manual Mellotrons made in the early days. Fast forward to nowm when both Mellotron and Mellotronics are offering or developing new two-manual Mellotrons."
CONN Electric Band
Images and audio sent my way via Brian Kehew of The MOOG Cookbook.All WAV files hosted on Twango.
download here
Presets
Presets 2
Bass and Drums
Variable Sound
More images
Update: Some words from Brian Kehew:
"It's from CONN - the same people who sold trumpets and saxes to kids in band class. But I think it's made by Lowrey - just a hunch. It has a lead mono synth with two oscillators, sounds very much like an ARP Soloist or Moog Minitmoog. One of the preset settings is "variable" and you have some adjustments you can make in the sound, the others are all presets you see on front. On the left is a set of black keys that do the bass note and chords. The bass tone 9as you hear) is HUGE and super deep. It plays a simple bass line when you start the drum machine. There is a cool beatbox, typical 70s one. And my favorite feature is that it can all run through the spring reverb inside - 3 settings from minimal to underwater! I love the fake wood grain stuff.
I've only ever seen three of these; the two others were one my friend Roger Manning (of Moog Cookbook) has, and one other I sold to Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo."
Mellotron Protector Muff
currently up for auction on VEMIA."a sort of padded leatherette bondage coat with loads of big buckles which fastened round an M400 in transit."
ODW Lawnchairs
YouTube via bkricoODW. sent my way via Romeo.
Our Daughter's Wedding. "Lawnchairs video filmed live at the Peppermint Lounge in New York City, 1982"
Spot the synths.
Octopus - 3 Videos
YouTube via teheruranu. Sent my way via Xavier. Be sure to watch all three videos. The last video is an excellent tutorial or descriptive video of the second video.
"The official demo video of the Octopus Midi Hardware Sequencer" Note there are 3 videos in this set.
MC-909 // Virus // Equipment test: Electro Stylee
YouTube via siedgey (click for more after this one). via Nusonica. This one takes a while to pick up but it does.
"Hi guys,
Well...I finally bought the synth of my dreams. I got the old Access Virus Classic for an amazing price. Hooked it up, wired all my gear through a mixer and my Behringer Tweakalizer, hit a few buttons and this is what came out.
It's not really a tune - more me messing about with a two bar loop, but hey, thought I'd upload it anyways.
Comments welcome. Thanks for watching. :)"
Oberheim OB-8
YouTube via staticforce31. via Nusonica.
"Just a quick video of me messing about on my Oberheim OB-8. Please excuse the rubbish playing (and noisy keys) but hopefully this will give you an idea of the sounds you can coax out of this beast."
Moog Little Phatty and Jordan Rudess - Oscillator Sync
YouTube via MoogMusicInc.
"Jordan demonstrates the powerful sonic and expressive uses of oscillator sync. Visit www.moogmusic.com for more info."
Fran and His Balloon Organ
YouTube via inflatableminute.
"Episode #11 - Addi interviews Fran Holland of Berkely, Ca. who built and plays an organ made with balloons."
DSI Prophet '08 and Some Facebook Notes
Nice image of the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 via Goran posted on Matrixsynth Facebook where you can find more general synth shots. Unfortunately you do have to log on like MySpace to see them. Not my rules. I haven't been on Facebook much lately so if anyone has been sending me messages or posting stuff I apologize for not being more receptive. I'll try to check the site more often. BTW, the best way to get me to post something of course is to send me an email (contact info is on the bottom right of the site). Only synth specific stuff goes up - in general you have to be able to identify the synth or synths via site or sound.
There is also a pretty cool video featuring a Doepfer modular running through a Plan b Model 12 by Adam Somers posted to the Matrixsynth Facebook group here (log on required again). Does anyone know if you can embed Facebook videos on other sites? I couldn't find the embed code. If so I could start posting some of the better videos I find here.
ILIKEITTOOTOO- Keyboard Zip Pouch- Hearts
flickr by [m]ichellelikesittootooclick here for the full size shot.
You might recognize the flickr name from this post. It looks like the zippered pouches have gone from just keys to synths. You know you want one.
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