Richard Lainhart's LUX

LUX from Richard Lainhart on Vimeo.
"An abstract HD film animated in After Effects. The soundtrack, "The Beautiful Blue Sky", is a realtime electronic synthesizer improvisation for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum."
http://www.otownmedia.com

FL Chan

more images here

Fruity Loops Studio 8

Be sure to click the image for the full size.

via Mark

Kawai R100

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"1985 Kawai R100 drum machine. Forget about the Roland TR 707 or the Oberheim DMX, the Kawai dominates over these machines for several reasons. First and foremost, THE SOUND! This box has the absolute deepest digital 12 bit kicks, toms, and snares I have heard in a drum machine. The sound is very deep and ranges from chesty, impact hits to aggressive and biting high's in the hi hat and cymbal department. Aggressive is probably the best word to describe the overall sound and feel of this machine. And if you are a fan of industrial music look no further. This is the EXACT sound of Ministry, KMFDM, and pretty much the bulk of Wax Trax! Records. I have sat with my copy of Twitch, Land of Rape and Honey, and What Do You Know, Deutschland and have recreated the rhythms and sounds VERBATIM! This is the box that did it. Pretty much every sound was featured on those records and the inexplicable aggressive movement of the machine's sequencer is what makes that industrial feel!

This was recorded with no outboard straight into Ableton Live and using only the R100 internal sequencer to sequence everything including the melodic content. There are no fx added other than a delay on the orchestral hits and Beat Repeat to stutter and filter the beat. It's a quick and rough demonstration with no mixing (the levels are off I know :) ) but demonstrates but a fraction of the feel and the general sound of this box! I used maybe about 5 of the 48 different sounds and two patterns! When you process this box with some proper mic preamps and a slamming compressor see what happens :)"

via matia

Update via natefrogg in the comments:
"awesome little box! one of the most under rated 80s digital drum machines!

they're going for pretty decent prices on ebay, i just won one for about 50$, should get it in a few days and am excited =)

one of the coolest things about the kawai r 100 is that you can tune the drum hits on a step by step basis in your sequence, that can result in wackiness and oddities!

there seem to be tons of cool mods for them too, one of which allows you to switch between 4 different rom sound sets

here's the manual and sorry for replying to something so old hehe =)
www.kawaius-tsd.com/OM/MODULE~1/R100.PDF"

Korg Polysix MIDI demo

YouTube via SSM2044. "Korg Polysix with MIDI & Ableton Live"

MOOG Polymoog

images via this auction

"Polymoog Synthesizer 203a
Serial Number - 3965
Date written under the cover - 9/25/79"

Be sure to check these out full size.
Inside a Polymoog.

UNIVOX VALVE SYNTH/ORGAN

via this auction

"UNIVOX 1940'S VALVE SYNTH/ORGAN. A 6 WATT VALVE AMP WITH VARIOUS ORGAN STYLE SOUND TABS, CROCODILE SKIN STYLE CASE."

MOOG The Source

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Roland SH-101 Red

via this auction

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MITS Audio Sweep Generator

via this auction
"This is a working vintage tone generator which can be used for testing oscilloscopes or for producing cool vintage synth sounding effects. It is marked "MITS Audio Sweep Generator". It big dials on the front, some switches and screw terminals for connecting to whatever you want.

From left to right the dials are: "SWEEP RATE (10MS to 1 SEC)", "FREQUENCY (1 to 10)", "FREQ. RANGE (switch between 10, 100, 1K, 10K, 100K)", "WAVEFORM (switch between sine, triangle, square)", "AMPLITUDE (0 - 5)" and "ATTENUATOR (switch between 0DB, 20DB, 40DB)".

Along the bottom row, left to right: on/off switch; power indicator lamp; SWP terminal; SYNC SWP and WAVE terminals; OUTPUT DIR, GND and ATTEN terminals; SWEEP mode switch (SWP or CW); SWEEP reset buttonl SWEEP RATE switch (x1 FAST, x100 SLOW).

Condition wise the front panel looks awesome. It has a brushed chrome panel. The top cover is powder coated black and has a few chips and flaws. There's a silver label on the back with serial number "E11063", Mits logo and the text "Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Inc."

Dimensions of unit: 13" x 7" x 4"

Modified Roland SH-101

via eBay

"Roland SH-101 analog synthesizer professionally modified by Diabolical Devices. We have added an audio input for the VCF with a level adjustment. This allows you to input any line level signal and either mix it with synth VCOs or process just input signal (by adjusting source mixer). This is a great feature for this keyboard!! The VCA effects audio input too so you can adjust ADSR settings or pass signal straight using "HOLD" feature. The VCF can be modulated by sh-101s triangle, square, of random LFO, or by the envelope generator. Awsome effects for DJs or for processing drums or anything else. We have aslo added 1/8" outputs for Triangle, Square, and Random modulation which can be used to control external synths....Or trigger circuit-bent sounds in one of our modified Casio SK-1s. This would also go REALLY well with the modified x0xb0x (roland tb-303 clone) that we currently have listed."

Imogen Heap - Hide Seek (live)

YouTube via logamv. "para aquellos amantes del buen arte.." via brian c.

Science or Art?

YouTube via marthajheil.

 If you've been coming to this site for a while you might recognize this as the One Bit Synth, posted back in August of 2005.

"Musician Puts Love for Computer Science into Minimalist Synthesizer

Recycled CD cases become bare-bones music players with the addition of a simple microchip and handful of other components, in a creation by a New York University graduate student in interactive telecommunications. Tristan Perich composes electronic music that can be encoded with just one bit -- compared to the sixteen bits of a CD -- and stores it in the 8 Kilobyte chip at the heart of his low-tech iPods."

MIDIBOX SID Datassette BassLine 8bit Synth - the LFO 1

YouTube via BSTGVN
"MIDIBOX SID Datassette BassLine 8bit Synth.
This is a prototype equipped with 2 MOS 8580 SID and 1 MidiBox CORE.

Case it's not closed as you can see, buttons are not screwed, connection's cables are temporary.

Melody it's incomplete because the channel R make some other notes that complete the sequence. I've mute it to hear the LFO effect on the channel L.

-- LFO test on channel L --
LFO:
- Positive Sine Wave.
- Depth Pulse Width 80.
- Depth Filter 100.
- Sync Off.
- One Shot On.

ENV:
- EnvMod 5.
This parameter it's very low so you can hear only accented note. The LFO curve increasing the Cutoff will 'show' the non accented note.

FIL:
- Cutoff 0.
- Resonance 240.

In this video you can see also:
- Select Button 5 as Play/Seq.
- Select Button 4 as my Menu Page.
- Rotary Encoder 1 as Cutoff.
- Rotary encoder 2 as Resonance.

Switching off and on the One Shot you can start the LFO curve just one time.

Switching on the Sync flag you can afflict the glided note with the LFO curve. Than switching off the Sync flag you can start just one LFO curve if One flag it's On.

This is an 'illegal' way to use this functions LFO Sync & One shot flags.

Sorry for the poor sound but this come out from the lcd monitors and is recored by a digital photocamera.

This work born from the genius of Thorsten Klose.
You can find more info at http://www.ucapps.de i'm ganchan there."

SampleTron Video Walkthrough

YouTube via audiomidicom
"Derek Floyd of IK Multimedia walks you through the features and sounds of the IK Multimedia SampleTron."

INTERFUNK + FARLEY JACKMASTER FUNK + TB-303 + TR-707 acid

YouTube via interfunkDJ
"short take of a self LIVE vs. DJ battle - ROLAND TB-303 and TR-707 together with FARLEY "JACKMASTER" FUNK´s "love can´t turn around" CHICAGO-HOUSE anthem...."

NEW!! Play Piano Keyboard Like a Pro INSTANTLY!! No Lessons!

YouTube via promusicnow
"NEW!! Play INSTANTLY at www.ProMusicNow.com Play Like A Pro!! Total Creative Control!! No More Lessons...EVER!! PATENTED BREAKTHROUGH!!"

FUZZTRON "Touch Landingpad"

YouTube via RaoulDave
"Original music and video by Fuzztron. Thank you Arconauts and Arcosanti, and Paul Katan for camera at Arcosanti."

Stuff for Sale

see the flickr set here

"a) 2x8 / 1 x 16 sequencer with 3,5mm plugs. Originally auctioned from vemia as non-working, i fixed the power supply and the other issues.
since i got a klee, a 960, a 119 and a mobius, this has become obsolete. asking 300 EUR (price negotiable)

b) Peter Forrest's A-Z of Analogue Synthesizers. Both Books (A-M) and
(N-Z) from the limited edition. (#1 -- 1891/6000 and #2 -- 1065/6000)
asking 60 EUR per book (or 100 you take both).

c) Sharp MD-R2 (MD recorder) with about 30 medias. best offer price.
d) Moog Modular power supply (vintage) best offer price, please more than 20 EUR.
Items are located in germany."

via JanVanVolt.

NOTE to others: I put posts up for the shots and info, not because they are for sale, so if you want me to post something, send me good shots like this.

The Borg TB-303

YouTube via cram993
"a long audio+visual description of a Roland TB-303 with the Borg modifications by Analogue Solutions. also in the mix is a TR-808, acting as the master with a little verb, the 303 is 100% dry. this is for sale on Ebay." images here

Four sound effects that made TV history

You can find the full article from the BBC with video here. Remember to watch the video in full screen mode when you get there by clicking on the box in the bottom right of the player.

"The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory?

Deep in the bowels of BBC Maida Vale studios, behind a door marked B11, is all that's left of an institution in British television history.

A green lampshade, an immersion tank and half a guitar lie forlornly on a shelf, above a couple of old synthesisers in a room full of electrical bric-a-brac.

These are the sad remnants of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, set up 50 years ago to create innovative sound effects and incidental music for radio and television."
via metrosonus and Alex.

'Totally Wired'

Trailer for 'Totally Wired' from niamhahern on Vimeo.
"This is the trailer for the forthcoming documentary ‘Totally Wired’. Enjoy!"
"A documentary film about Andreas Schneider's infamous 'Schneider's Buero' [Schneidersbuero], the boutique electronic musical instrument shop in Berlin.

'Totally Wired' explores one man's electric evangelism, and the interface he has built to connect analogue instrument inventors with their end-users.

The film features an informed selection of inventors and artists alike, including Dieter Doepfer, Junior Boys, Ken MacBeth, Anthony Rother, Jessica Rylan, Daniel Miller, Wowa Cwejmann, Per Salzwedel, Ricardo Villalobos, Magda, Marc Houle and many more."
http://totallywired.tumblr.com/
via wire to the ear.

Roland Jupiter-4 + Juno-60 by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

bass: Roland Jupiter-4 triggered by the TR-707;
at 1:37 I switch on the JP4 arpeggiator
pad sounds: Roland Juno-60
drums: Roland TR-707

live played, no overdubbing, no sequencer software used"

klee-firstImpression2

klee-firstImpression2 from loopcycle on Vimeo.
"The CV output A is feeding the pitch of oscillator A. The CV output B is feeding the pitch of oscillator B. Gate busses 1, 2, 3 are triggering three envelopes, which are opening two filters and one VCA. The Klee is running in 16x1 mode."

Workspace and Environment: Michael Fakesch

You can find the full interview on trash_audio

"What is your current favorite piece of hardware?
My favourite toy is a brandnew Acidlab Bassline. It's a on-the-fly-programmable 303 clone, which was build by a old schoolfriend of mine (www.acidlab.de) it sounds like the original, looks cool, is cheap and the super intuitive programming is much better than on the original."

Wigerdal's World #3

The Roland TB-303. See the write up on Sonic State.

Lighthouse - The WebCast

Lighthouse - The WebCast

"Description: Tim Blake performs" Lighthouse", live for screening at Hawfest 2007. Tim's "Wedding Present" to Kris Tait and Dave Brock, who Married on Stage -17/06/07"
via MySpace, via hpsounds

CasioCZ3000+TR-707+GTG 44S by BenAnderson88

YouTube via benanderson88. What's GTG?
"A retrosound72 inspired song... kinda obviouse isn't it? XD
Drums: TR-707 (sampled)
Bass: GTG 44S synced to MIDI tempo
Pad: Casio CZ3000
CZ3000 also doubled as a midi keyboard for the GTG44S (using it's split keyboard feature and keyboard area selection in FLStudio8)
Hand played live, no software sequencer used except for drums and to sync the bass arpeggio.

Thanks for looking :)
~BenA."

960 Sequencer Fun !!!

YouTube via MarkkIIStudios. "Synthesizers.com 960 tinkering"

Oberheim Matrix 12 + TTE + Zvex Tremorama

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's this beautious vintage monster through the Fulltone Tube Tape Echo Unit then into the Zvex Tremorama pedal. The Tremorama's sequence is set by the volume knobs at the top as well as the speed and step length which can be 4, 6, or 8 steps. The TTE adds even more warmth to the Oberheim, if that's even possible!
http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"

RIP Tristram Cary

Tristram Cary passed away this week at the age of 82.
Pictured: In Tristram's studio
http://www.tristramcary.com/
"While serving as a wartime naval radar officer in 1945, he independently conceived the idea of electronic and tape music, and is thus a world pioneer in this field. His contribution to concert and entertainment musical repertoire in every genre from pure electronic music to instrumental solos and orchestral and choral works covers the entire second half of the 20th century, and is now moving actively into the 21st."

via wikipedia:
"Cary was educated at Westminster School in London, England and is the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the Royal Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms. Following the war he created one of the first electronic music studios, later travelling around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition.
His concert works of note include a Sonata for guitar (1959), Continuum for tape (1969), a cantata Peccata Mundi (1972), Contours and Densities at First Hill for orchestra (1972), a Nonet (1979), String Quartet No. 2 (1985) and The Dancing Girls for orchestra (1991).
Cary is also particularly well known for his film and television music. He has written music for the science fiction television series Doctor Who, as well as the score for the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (1955). Later film scores included Quatermass and the Pit (1967) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), both for Hammer.
Cary was one of the first British composers to work in musique concrète. In 1967 he created the first electronic music studio of the Royal College of Music.

He provided the visual design for the EMS VCS3 synthesizer, the first portable synthesizer, though not the first to be attached to a keyboard, designed by Bob Moog a year later in 1970.
Cary received the 2005 lifetime achievement award from the Adelaide Critics' Circle for his contribution to music in England and Australia."

WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE

YouTube via VCS3DOCO.


"Film teaser for the documentary What The Future Sounded Like - the story of the Electronic Music Studios and their impact on music history. www.myspace.com/whatthefuturesoundedlike"
"Tristram Cary (Director: 1969 - 1973) Pioneer of classical electronic music during 1960s and composer for film and broadcast with musical credits on the first Dr.Who & the Daleks series, later scored the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers as well as a few Hammer films. Pipe smoker, tune writer, gun-for-hire, classical composer, navy man. Role at EMS was as resident composer and artist and as the most musically experienced. Co-designed VCS3. Built wooden cabinet, wrote hand-book. Left to become Professor of Electronic Music at the Royal College of Music. Since became Professor of Music at the University of Adelade. Retirement is not an option." Alos see CDM and Califaudio. This post will remain on top for the rest of the day out of respect. New posts if any will be below.

Tiptop Audio Z5000 review by Stretta

You can find the full review on The Stretta Procedure.

The following are a couple of excerpts:
"I spent all of last night playing with it, giggling. Tons of fun. I love putting reverb before the amplifier so the lines you play are smeared, but still gated by the keyboard. A reverb module makes patching far more easy, and opens up creative opportunities you may not have considered before. The Z5000 also includes a handful of other programs like chorus, flanging, but the real focus is on various reverbs. Now I really want the Plan B Model 40 Elf-series headphone preamp - everything is contained in the modular case!"

"When you get a new module, your old instrument is entirely new again. This is the really cool thing about modulars, and a concept I'm dying to exploit in software. You want to try the module with everything else you already have. It makes the entire system more powerful. You're not just buying a single new module, you're gaining what that module can do, in interaction with everything else in the system."

It's also typically much cheaper to pick up a new module vs. a new synth if you need a quick GAS fix.

Mooged Out

"In case you missed it…

Here it is folks…pictures and a review from the Mooged Out: Asheville CD Release party, featuring Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band!

First, a big “hat’s off” to all the musicians and volunteers that made this incredible night possible. You all helped to raise thousands of dollars for the foundation–a big help in preserving Bob’s archives. Get your copy of Mooged Out: Asheville as a gift with a $25 donation."

More images and words on the event on the Bob Moog Foundation Blog.

Pictured: Playing a Voyager with Booty Band: Lisa Huang

klee2_01

flickr by fonik2000

full size

"my version of Scott Stites KLEE2 sequencer built from the electro-music.com PCB edition."

klee-firstImpression

klee-firstImpression from loopcycle on Vimeo.
"The CV output A is feeding the pitch of oscillator A.
The CV output B is feeding the pitch of oscillator B.
Gate busses 1, 2, 3 are triggering three envelopes, which are opening two filters and one VCA.
The Klee is running in 16x1 mode.
You can see the lights chase each other from stage 1 (upper left) to stage 16 (lower left)."

Buchla 227

flickr by verbos

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Hobnox Audiotool im Test

Hobnox Audiotool im Test from Phlow on Vimeo.
"Audiotool von Hobnox | Mit den Audio-Werkzeugen auf Hobnox verfolgen die Programmierer einen spannenden Ansatz: Musik produziert man im Browser und steckt dort Geräte wie Synthesizer, Drummachines und Effekte zusammen - ähnlich wie wir es von Reason kennen. André Michelle, der Kopf hinter der Flash-basierten Musikproduktionsumgebung, erklärt uns im Interview was das Hobnox-Tool bezweckt, was geplant ist und welche geheimen Funktionen und Tricks das Audiotool schon jetzt bereithält."
"Audio tool Hobnox | With the audio tools to pursue the programmers Hobnox an exciting approach to music produced in the browser and there is equipment such as synthesizers, drum machines and effects together - similar to what we know of Reason. André Michelle, the man behind the flash-based music production environment, explains in an interview what the Hobnox-purpose tool, which is planned and what functions and secret tricks the audio tool already in store."
You can check out Hobnox (literally) online.

Hard Soft Synth and tr-808

Hard Soft Synth and tr-808 from Gijs on Vimeo.
"Audio processing the tr-808 with the HSS. In the beginning it uses a chopper effect (i don't know the common name for this type of effect..). The HSS chops up the input signal, and plays the short loops after another. Then there is a ring modulator effect And in the end there is a bit crusher effect, with a legato sweep between the changes."
This is the last post of the HSS for now - you can find more by clicking on the Gijs link below the video.

Hard Soft Synth on Oscilloscope

Hard Soft Synth on Oscilloscope from Gijs on Vimeo.
"Playing some of the sounds that the HSS can produce, visualized on a oscilloscope..
In this case the HSS prototype 1 was used.
gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=hard-soft-synth-1"

HSS Proto1 to Proto2 Random

HSS Proto1 to Proto2 Random from Gijs on Vimeo.

"Prototype 1 is used as a CV input and Audio input (at the same time) for Prototype 2.
gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=hard-soft-synth-1"

Electrochemical Synthesiser

Electrochemical Synthesiser from pask present on Vimeo.
"Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations.

The device demonstrates how complexity can be generated using simple 'analogue' and wet components.
The inspiration for the synthesiser came from the website 'Peculiar sounds from Aluminium' by Nyle Steiner.

R.Brown 2007, 2008"

Roland System 100M Custom Engineering

via Magnus

"This guy has made some crazy new 100m modules like Buchla lowpass gates, polyvoks filter, SEM filter etc. and he's planning an 8 track sequencer with qwerty keyboard all in 100m module format!"


Click here for the site.

Yamaha CS-15D Demo

YouTube via sounddoctorin
"Bob Weigel of http://sounddoctorin.com (incredible tech resource page included) demonstrates the somewhat rare Yamaha CS-15D two vco analog monosynth. This machine mixes a vco dedicated to preset voicings with one that can be presets or the knobs. (manual). Great sounding classic CS series machine with the standard chips used in the other great ones, but more useful in performance with some great presets."

Mobius sequencing dotcom

YouTube via shadowfac
"This is a demonstration of a FutureRetro Mobius sequencer controlling a small Synthesizers.com modular system."

Crumar Composer analog paraphonic synthesizer demo

YouTube via sounddoctorin. Be sure to watch 5:50 on for the tube thing.

"Bob Weigel of http://sounddoctorin.com reviews the capabilities of this very rare analog divide down synthesizer from 1983 or so. One of the few machines built with a breath controller transducer inside so you just plug in hose. Phatt sounding monosynth. Nice organ presets and bbd leslie simulator. Polysynth and string section also can be mixed in. Only seen serial numbers in the 200's and these are so rare on ebay not sure how many were built. If anyone ever has info let me know. Visit the site for a virtual studio tour with sound clips from many of the synths there..."

Update:

Crumar Composer supplementary: Hand Vibrato demo!

Uploaded by sounddoctorin on Nov 21, 2008

Korg i40M Interactive Music Synth & Arranger

images via this auction
"The Korg i40M is a high quality synth tone unit and backing track style arranger with 16-track sequencer, It also has a Vocal/Guitar section, with dedicated multi-effects and a vocal harmonizer , and multi-effect units. You can also playback of Standard MIDI files direct from memory or disk. The sound generation is Korgs own AI2 synthesis with 320 factory sounds (including a full General MIDI soundset) plus 64 user-programmable programs. 15 keyboard sets including vocal & guitar input and processing. 2 megabytes of PCM waveform for the piano set in addition to the 12 megabytes for the standard library of voices.14 factory Drum Kits (plus two user kits).

128 high-quality ROM Styles split into 3 banks A+B+User. A RAM Style library (16 User RAM locations are ready for new Styles to be loaded via disk), including selections from pop, rock, jazz and ethnic music. Each style has 6 live switchable track sections. Backing section ie beat variations and fills, chord detection. Song composition, by means of the Backing Sequence feature, melodies and other parts can be recorded on eight additional tracks.

Factory preset MIDI settings to select to instantly connect Digital Pianos, MIDI Accordions, or MIDI Keyboards, midi guitars and sequencers. Lyrics in 8 formats including SMF. 2 multi-effect processors for many reverbs and 45 other effects. Direct-from-disk playback of SMFs (format 0 and 1). Additional effects processors for vocal and guitar processing, including a 4 part harmonizer when connecting a mic (own input). In Guitar mode, also features multi-effects, compression, distortion, chorusing reverb and amp simulations. At the rear are the usual phones – line in and line out sockets. Damper/pedal and midi in (dual in’s) /out/through and EC5 controller.

This unit has quite some complexity and I have only ever scratched the surface of its capabilities. Oh and it has built in effects. The i40m was introduced in 1999 and you can see from web reviews that it regularly scored 9.3 and above. (type in ‘korg i40m review’ or look on you tube), extra styles can be had from ebay etc."

I searched YouTube and found this:

Mystic

YouTube via Axlejam. "the first"

Crowther Audio Prunes and Custard

via this auction

"Prunes and Custard, made by Crowther Audio in New Zealand.

This is a great pedal that really delivers that muse style synth fuzz while retaining low end, its great on bass or guitar and you can switch to retain low frequencies.

The pedal is in good condition with only a couple of minor paint chips, and is working very nicely.

The three functions work as follows:

the level controls output volume

mix- mixes your clean and the effected tone (very useful indeed)

and drive adds more fuzz/gain/harmonics to the effect

really a nice boutique pedal to have in your line up and stacks well with other distortions

the pedal runs off either a 9v battery or 9v dc mains adaptor (boss style)"

Synthbox Space Case for Doepfer Analogue Modular Synth

images via this auction
"One Synthbox Space Case, this was bought used and imported from the US earlier in the year as i couldn't find anyone stocking it in Europe.
Made from 3/4 inch thick clear perspex, hold 2x168hp of eurorack format synth modules e.g. doepfer, analogue systems. The aluminium rails take small nuts which you can screw the modules into, around 30x square nuts are supplied with this, though if you need more the rails will take a round M2.5 nut. I do not have the bolts, but they should be easy enough to get from maplins."
I don't have a label for Euro-rack, so Doepfer gets it.

Studio Electronics SE-1X

images via this auction
"Now the science bit, courtesy of the manufacturers: ++++++ Seen where the sound of success was heard, the SE-1 recreated the power of the classic Moog tone and far more. The distinctive Oberheim filter and numerous additional features helped to make this Hiphop and R&B legend the serious professional's source for the boominest basses and smoothest, wormiest leads on the planet. The SE-1X continues in this tradition, remaining true to its roots, while stepping up its functionality and form; wide open to future expansion and exploration via its Flash-ROM operating system –not to mention the boundless creativity of our supernal sound designers! SE-1X Improvements on an SE-1 Theme:
4 ROM Banks (396 locations).
4 RAM Banks (396 locations).
Greatly enhanced MIDI specs.
Flash-ROM Web-updateable Operating Software.
Smoother tweaking and MIDI transmission of front panel pots (switches send info. as well).
External Audio Input.

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
Voices: one.
Audio outputs: one main output.
Memory: 396 patches in ROM; 396 user locations in RAM.
Interface: 1 rotary encoder, 24 knobs, 21 illuminated switches.
Display: 20 x 4 back lit liquid crystal.
Weight: 10 lbs.
Dimensions: 3 rack spaces, 8 inches deep.
Power: 90 - 250 volts AC auto switching.

VOICE ARCHITECTURE
Three voltage controlled discrete analog oscillators Waveforms: triangle, sawtooth and variable width square. All waveforms output simultaneously. Syncing of Osc 2&3 to Osc 1.

Two voltage controlled discrete analog filters 24db (classic Moog), 12db (classic Oberheim). 12db filter incorporates low pass and band pass modes.

Three low frequency oscillators Waveforms: triangle, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, square, noise, random. One destination and amount for each LFO with key trigger, phase, and midi sync.

Four multiple stage envelope generators Attack, decay, sustain and release with inverting and multiple triggering. Envelope 1 fixed to filter frequency. Envelope 2 fixed to amplifier level. Envelope 3&4 are assignable.

Additional Features Noise generator. Glide and auto glide, linear or exponential. Ring modulation.

Modulation Destinations LFOs 1,2&3: VCOs 1,2&3 frequency, VCOs 1,2&3 mix level, VCOs 1,2&3 pulse width, ring mod mix level, noise mix level, VCF resonance and frequency, and volume. Envelopes 3&4: VCOs 1,2&3 frequency, VCOs 1,2&3 mix level, VCOs 1,2&3 pulse width ring mod mix level, noise mix level, LFO 1, 2&3 rate and depth, and VCF resonance.

MIDI Controllers Dynamics, modwheel, pressure, and breath control: destinations and amounts include all LFO and envelope 3 destinations. Bender: pitch and filter frequency. Fixed continuous controller assignments for all key front panel controls. Additionally receives: program change, bank select, glide on/off, glide time, and volume.

MIDI Specifications In Out and Thru."

Akai X7000 Sampler

images via this auction

Casio CZ-101

images via this auction

"Casio model CZ-101 "Cosmo" digital synthesizer keyboard. Features 49 keys/4 octaves, with 8 voices (using 1 DCO) or 4 voices (using 2 DCOs). There are 16 preset tones and internal memory for 16 programmable tones. The external ram cartridge is included for storing an additional 16 tones."