Resonator Neuronium New Pre-Order Open

via Jayemsonic
"Because we get periodically inquiries on the Resonator Neuronium, we have opened a new preordering cycle until December 31, 2010. If more than 20 preorders come in until then, we at Jomox can manufacture a new run of the R.N."

This one in via adiblasi

Kawai spectra m25 acid mix

YouTube via FrostedRadioLight | August 31, 2010

"Early 90's cheesy demo of the kawai spectra ? The sounds are 100% spectra presets , a bit of a favourite synth with detroit and acid house musicians in the early 90's and all over warp records and detroit releases.

The spectra cant help but sound like the demo , the sounds are all presets but with some work you can get some beautifull glassy and ethereal pads .In comparison to the k1 / k4 and k5000 i find the spectra has a more organic tone and seems to be able to nail the 90's much easier and this early rave and detroit sound , not sure why but it does.

If i had to have one synth for detroit techno or rave music it would be this one without a doubt.

Dedicated to the days of m25 orbital parties , free festivals and revolution in the uk."


via this auction
"1 x kawai spectra synthesizer as used by all the great detroit techno artists of the day .

The kawai spectra is a bit of a hidden gem.I will be the first to admit its not that deep on some levels , no granular quadrant lfos and angular spacial refractors in here and its not ' anal - logue but it remains a very creative machine more for its tone and character.If your into retro rave and synth music , detroit techno and all things related to these genres the spectra you will love...

Please note the synth does not come with anything to do with larry haggman [Dallas' JR] or a large dog but it seems appropriate at the time to include the shot."

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Matching KORG Keyboard Cover and Hand Bag

flickr by TyyHandicrafts

EMS VCS3 Ringtones and Minimoog Voyager Patches via The Simonsound

Available at The Simonsound. They also have a new album out (just posted on MATRIXSYNTH-C).

EMS ringtones embedded below.

You can find an interview including some pics and video at work ethic here.

The Simonsound EMS Synthi VCS3 Ringtones by thesimonsound

Factory Oberheim DMX with MIDI Badge

See the update via Nathan in this post

"More on these great machines can be found here:
http://www.electrongate.com/dmxfiles/"

Steam Powered Sequencer

YouTube via unrecordings | August 29, 2010

"1925 Bing steam engine powering a sequencer via a small dynamo. Apologies for the sepia & vignette filters..."

Playing the Blade Runner intro with my Moog

Playing the Blade Runner intro with my Moog from Marcus Chiado on Vimeo.

"Blade Runner intro. Played with a Moog Prodigy + Roland Space Echo."

Demonstrando o Moog Prodigy

Demonstrando o Moog Prodigy from Marcus Chiado on Vimeo.

"O bichinho gera uns sons MUITO doidos!"

MOTU BPM Videos

YouTube via motuTV | September 01, 2010

Playlist:
BPM basics and sound library
"BPM 1.5 sound library"

BPM beat production features
"Building beats and editing sounds in BPM"

BPM loops phrases and instruments
"REX, audio loops in BPM. Plus instrument racks!"

BPM mixing effects and song building
"How to build a song in seconds with BPM. Add mixing and effects."

Quasimidi Polymorph

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ROLAND VINTAGE JUNO-60 SYNTH AND JSQ-60 RECORDER

via this auction

"Super-cool vintage Roland Juno-60 keyboard synthesizer with JSQ-60 accessory DCB Digital Keyboard Recorder, padded hardshell Anvil flight case for the keyboard, and manual for the recorder are all in search of a new loving home."

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Bit One Synthesizer by Crumar

via this auction

Some shots of the inside after the hop.

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Synthesizer Club - part 2

YouTube via radialpukesplat | June 11, 2010
Part 1 previously posted here.
"Synthesizer expert Rory Daniels deals with a letter from a fan. original flash version: http://www.25pence.com/synth2.html"

Introducing VOCALIZER by SONiVOX.mov

YouTube via SONiVOXmi | September 01, 2010

"An introductory demonstration of the VOCALIZER by SONiVOX"

Getting the Most From SONiVOX VOCALIZER.mov

SONiVOXmi | September 01, 2010

"Jason Jordan gives some tips and tricks for VOCALIZER usage."

ELECTRIBE・SX&KAOSS PAD KP3 #3

YouTube via hirofumiueno | September 01, 2010

"ELECTRIBE・SX&KAOSS PAD KP3"

ether^ra 2ND(SUPPRESSED)

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | September 01, 2010

"an improv featuring my Serge Creature/Seq A combo, a VTOL Cramola, a Korg MS20 and a number of fx. http://etherra.blogspot.com"

Only DIY

YouTube via firestARTerFHolle | September 01, 2010

"featuring new and old developments from Thomas Margolf : Speaquencer, Drum Trigger Sequencer, Midi-Master-Clock Module and the popular DIY projects Gorf, Midibox 16 and Midibox SID."

Only DIY 2nd

firestARTerFHolle | September 01, 2010

"featuring new and old developments from Thomas Margolf : Speaquencer, Drum Trigger Sequencer, Midi-Master-Clock Module and the popular DIY projects Gorf, Midibox 16 and Midibox SID."

Side note: now and then I get word verification when posting. For this one the word was STEIM. Thought that was a bit in spirit / interesting.

Moog Rogue Patches - from the User's Manual

YouTube via Dovinia | September 01, 2010

"Here are some patches taken from the (otherwise) excellent Moog Rogue Owner's Manual by Herb Deutsch."

Sugar Bytes Guitarist

YouTube via SugarBytes | September 01, 2010

"Sugar Bytes Guitarist is the complete virtual guitar software, including amps, effects, guitars and the guitar player! Create riffs and songs on the fly, play
guitar with your keyboard, all that wihin your vst/au compatible sequencer or with the Guitarist standalone program! Guitarist is available at www.sugar-bytes.com"

Casio Vl-Tone Circuit Bent

YouTube via kenzie2029 | August 31, 2010

"As you can see from my blog, this is not my first attempt at bending my Vl-tone. The first time through was OK, but glitchy. For my top panel I used a piece of stainless steel that unfortunately conducted the current from my potentiometers dropping the pitch. Also at the time, the only wire I had was too thick and stiff to work with. So I decided to rip it all apart and start over. This is what I did.

So here are the mods. I used a little help from Casper electronics, he has a mod sheet that gives you a few patch points and three pots. I ended up only using four of the patch points and all three of his pot mods. I also added three extra pots by externally replacing the VLs internal pots. Then I tested and tested and found twelve other patch points that I liked. So that is from the left all the pots and the black RCA jacks.

As for the white RCA jacks, they function as a switch bay triggered by the switches to the right. The smart observer will notice there are nine switches in the array. One turns the bay into a multiple, the top row (on-off-on) engages the bay or sends it to the switches below. Those switches a attached to capacitors and diodes to further change the sound. The pots about the switch array are part of a home made low pass filter with frequency and resonance. Then there is a volume and reset button."

New Pics of Novatron for Sale

see this post.

Mattson Mini Modular: Sample and Hold Basic operation

YouTube via mmmodsynth | August 31, 2010

"This is the first in a series of operational videos describing the functions of the Mattson Mini Modular product line of modules" http://mattsonminimodular.com

FAT BASTARD

A few drool worthy pics in via Lester Barnes in response to Bernie's Wahalla Monster Modular. If you have access to his Facebook photo album, currently you will find 21 glorious pics of what could only be called FAT BASTARD. Is there any system bigger? Bigger than TONTO, and bigger than the system in Hans Zimmer's studio?

Anyway, I think Beer has Bernie beat. :) Put some clothes on man!

BTW, Beermaster's Fat Bastard gets credit for me setting up my Flickr account back in 2005! Here's the first set. The bottom pic of the Polyfusion in this post is from that set. I tried to check the exact date I uploaded the pic to see if it matched the date of the original post, but I'm not seeing it. But I did see this: "This photo was taken on August 19, 2002 using a Pentax Optio 330." Flickr must pull the info from the digital meta data in the pic, because I didn't add that. :)

Again, I think I need an everything label. Some random ones picked...

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PhotoNoise

YouTube via JCRUDESS | August 31, 2010

"This one slipped through the radar. It's an app called PhotoNoise. It's my choice to have the keyboard picture, but ANY picture can be used, and the sound responds to touching the various colors on the screen. Very spacey cool stuff here. I hope the developer goes on with this one, because I like this kind of stuff and I want play along!"


iPads on Ebay

Buchla 200e.

flickr set by kernelslacker
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Buchla Model Model 281e AND Model 292e

via this auction
http://buchla.com/
"The Model 281e Quad Function Generator has four function generators organized in 2 pairs. All four normally function independently. A momentary switch selects one of three modes: transient, sustained, and cyclic. An illuminated LED indicates the selected mode. On receipt of a pulse, the output voltage ramps up to 10 volts at a rate determined by the sum of an applied control voltage and the setting of the attack time knob. If in the sustained mode, the voltage will stay high as long as the input pulse is maintained. If not in the sustained mode, or when the input pulse terminates, the output ramps down to zero at a rate determined by the sum of the decay voltage and the setting of the decay knob. At the end of the decay, a transient pulse appears at the pulse output. If in the cyclic mode, the cycle now repeats. The time range for both attack and decay is from .001 to 10 seconds. In the quadrature mode, generators A and B (or C and D) operate in tandem to provide functions shifted by ninety degrees. The mode is selected with a switch and indicated with LEDs. An OR function can be invoked to generate more complex envelopes (ADSR). The model 225e or the 206e preset manager can issue commands to store and recall the 281e's settings. The 281e can respond directly to MIDI signals received by the model 225e MIDI interface.

The Model 292e Quad Dynamics Manager is functionally identical to the original 292, with the exception of two new features - the 292e has velocity inputs, allowing controllers to control note volumes with performance gestures. And its settings can be stored as a part of a 200e series preset. The 292e sports four independent voltage controlled amplifiers. Each has a signal input and output, a control voltage input that varies the unit's gain from -120 to +3db, an offset adjustment, and a velocity input. The latter adds further control to the gain when employed and becomes transparent when unconnected. A switch selects one of three operating modes: straight gate (VCA), lowpass filter (VCF), or a combination of the two, in which the spectral response varies as the gain is changed. Frequency domain gating imparts a dynamic tonal variation that gives the listener a sense of absolute loudness. This quality is characteristic of all acoustic instruments (the harder you strike, pluck, or blow, the richer the overtone structure). A mix of the four output signals is also provided. Aided by the model 225e or the 206e preset manager, the settings of the 292e can be stored and retrieved."

Korg Poly 800 Electric Keyboard Demo

YouTube via bac4calgravity | August 31, 2010

via this auction

# Serial #: 033972

For some reason YouTube vids disappear from posts when I use the "Click for more" link, so... no "more" link for this post.

Pan Kat Synth Steel Drum

via this auction

"Synthesized Steel Drum / Steel Pan... It also has other patches and more than 50 other instruments, but the main deal is the steel pan; it's laid out like an actual steel drum, and the sounds are better than any synth pan I've ever heard. From one side to the other it is 30 inches. Only used twice in the studio.

The PanKat comes with the manual, the stand, power adapter, mallets, and will be shipped in a lined, padded steelpan case. This thing is perfect for recording... no need to "touch up" or find a tuner to play it anytime.

RETAIL on this item was $2100; we purchased it for $1800."

Early ARP Synthesizer Factory Service Manuals

via this auction

"I was an ARP Factory Authorized Service Center in San Francisco during the mid-1970's, and was trained at a factory class in Los Angeles by factory service representative Fred Dodd [Phil Dodds], who played the role of the synth guy in the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Included are original blue line and blue prints of schematics, factory service notes, my personal notes, advertising brochures and posters, etc. gathered when I had my repair shop in the San Francisco area. Though San Francisco's synth guru John Vierra blew the doors off the competition back then (myself included), I went on the burgeoning field of "Personal Computers" in which I prospered well.

All documentation is in very good to near-mint condition with no missing or unreadable pages. This is my personal collection of service and support documentation from ARP which includes support information for:

* ARP Omni model 2480
* ARP String Synths models 2600-2606, 3620, 2300
* ARP AXXE model 2300
* ARP Pro Soloist model 2701
* ARP Odyssey models 2800, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813
* ARP Sequencer model 1601

Shipping will be in a 12 x 12 x 6 box weighing about 8 pounds."

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Univox Stringman Keyboard Synth

via this auction

inside a Univox Stringman

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Mutronics Mutator

via this auction

"The Mutator is a stereo analogue effects unit based on technology developed for synthesis in the late sixties. Quite unlike your standard reverb, delay, chorus and flange type effects the effects achievable with the Mutator are unique and quite simply defy description.

The Mutator is a stereo analogue filter and envelope follower with full control facilities. It contains two independent voltage controlled filters similar to those found in analogue synthesizers, which can be used to treat any external sound source. Each filter can be controlled from its own associated low frequency oscillator (LFO) and/or its own envelope follower section, which extracts the envelope contour of an input signal and applies it to control the cut-off frequency of the filter.

Each envelope follower can be switched to track either the envelope of the sound that is being treated by the filter, or that of an independent external control signal. This external control signal can be any audio source , eg. a drum sound, a guitar, a synth, a sampler output, or even a microphone. Thus the envelope characteristics of one sound can be superimposed onto the filtering contour of another.

Another switch on the envelope follower selects envelope follow mode or gate mode - in which the circuit detects whether a signal is above a certain threshold level before switching on.

In gate mode, the device can operate much like a dedicated noise gate unit, with the added capabilities of the analogue filter

The LFO's have four different sweep waveforms each and may be switched via a stereo link to produce stereo panning effects."

ARP 2600

via this auction

Hartmann NEURON Survival Kit : Motherboard + 250GB HD

via this auction
" This Kit includes :
* One drop in replacement motherboard
* A new pristine Hard Drive breed ! This is your rare chances to get, for this powerful machine, an extended 250GB version of the original Hard Drive.

Original Hard Drives found in the NEURON were usually within the range of 20GB minimum up to 80GB maximum in some occasion. The provided Hard Drive in this auction is resulting of my intensive works to extend the last Linux partition while keeping all the original linux operating system information safe. The resulting Hard Drive is a 250GB unit from Western Digital, well know for it's silent and cool operation.

As a consequence, the available space for all your Models and Sounds comes up to 230GB. Here this noticeable improvement will relatively cost you as much as some 80GB hard drive clones that were sold here on ebay some months ago. Keep in mind that this is more than just a clone : All of the original NEURON hard drive has been analysed in details such as the Boot records (Mater and Extended ones) and allmost of the original partitions in the respect of the original information close to the byte ! Such an evolution could not be affordable using standard tools such as driveimage, partition magic, nor Acronis, but thanks to my own Linux know how.

Consequently, this auction is for you the occasion to provide your NEURON with a large significant space for your creation, models and sounds, but also the occasion to insure of a second 'Life' for your machine ! : NEURON users community has reported some of the original Hartmann motherboards going dead because a batch of bad components described as the 'Capacitors Plague' . It causes (we will see further occurences of this problem in the future, so it may hit your own neuron motherboard also....) a chemical decay of some of the inner PCB layers. A a consequence, I strived until I found out The motherboard type that fits exactly as the original design as well as its respective shape factor. This new motherboard will run exactly as your previous board. This new board may help you in fixing your Neuron if it's currently faulty, or represents a backup for the future. Keep your Ram, your processor, your Fan as they are since all of them will fit with this new board. Hence, No RAM or Processor upgrade of any sort on your side is needed. The provided motherboard in this auction has been tested and validated within the NEURON Synthesizer : It will run exactly as the original motherboard design (which was the Shuttle Spacewalker MV25). BIOS and Jumpers configuration have both been entirely pre-configured.

> It's a 'plug and play' combo , as soon as it reaches your door.

The hardware is provided with some instructions about how to install the motheraboard, what to connect and where, etc. The extended 250GB hard drive comes into your NEURON synthesizer as was your original drive the first day in, with ModelSet v4 , SoundSet v4 and OS 1.5 all installed."

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Roland JUPITER 8

via this auction

"It's without MIDI or DCB, but it can accept MIDI Retrofit Kit, like Kenton's, or others... Instrument's serial number: 2020**"

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1970‘S ROLAND SH1000 SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"1970‘S ROLAND SH1000 SYNTHESIZER W/ OWNER’S MANUAL, STAND & HARDSHELL CASE - ORIGINAL OWNER! SERIAL NO. 265767. THIS WAS KNOWN AS ROLAND’S FIRST SYNTH. THE STAND IS ORIGINAL AS WELL, BY SOLID SUPPORT IN SO. EL MONTE CA."

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Roland AX-Synth Black Sparkle

ROLAND RELEASES BLACK AX-SYNTH

Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2010 — Roland U.S. is pleased to announce that its popular AX-Synth® Shoulder Synthesizer is now available in a premium black sparkle finish. The new glass-particle UV finish reacts to various lighting conditions, creating a glistening appearance that is striking under stage lighting. The AX-Synth remains available in the standard white finish as well.

Created with the art of performance in mind, the AX-Synth allows keyboardists to connect with their audience as guitarists and singers do. It represents Roland’s new generation of remote keyboards, offering an onboard sound engine that features a collection of the company’s best cutting-edge synth sounds.

When wearing the battery-powered AX-Synth, keyboardists can escape their standard stationary rig and create kinetic musical performances, moving freely around the stage. The ribbon controller, mod bar, D BEAM, and assignable knobs give players the ability to perform memorable and expressive solos with the ultimate real time control.

The AX-Synth features 49 velocity-sensitive keys, and is the first shoulder keyboard to include a 128-voice polyphonic sound engine with 256 distinct tones accessible from eight bank buttons. It can also send and receive standard MIDI messages for use with other keyboards or sound modules. The AX-Synth includes a dedicated V-LINK button to control visual elements, and a dedicated PC software editor/librarian application is available for download for players who would like to customize their own sounds.

The AX-Synth with black sparkle finish is expected to be available in November with an MSRP of $1,449.00. For more information, please visit www.RolandConnect.com."

Roland GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer

"ROLAND INTRODUCES GAIA SYNTHESIZER SOUND DESIGNER

Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2010 — Roland is proud to announce the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer, a software-based editor application for the popular GAIA SH-01 Synthesizer. Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X, the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer allows users to access the GAIA synth’s entire set of sound parameters visually via a computer. The GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer is the perfect companion for all GAIA synth owners—beginners, music educators, and pros alike.

Once the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer is installed, all that is required is a single-cable USB connection between the GAIA synth and the PC. With the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer’s interactive interface, users have complete command over sound creation. Every control for the GAIA’s three synthesizer engines is represented, while the unique Waveform Display shows the shape of the currently edited waveform in a virtual oscilloscope, providing a graphical representation of the sound.

The Action List feature allows users to record and play back every step of the sound-creation process. Additionally, the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer comes with many sample Action Lists that detail the creation of common sounds such as synth bass and synth lead. This feature helps beginners understand basic synthesis and aids music educators teaching in synthesizer labs.

The GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer also provides the perfect way for users to backup, organize, and store their custom GAIA sounds. Included with the GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer are a number of newly created patches, ready for loading into the GAIA Synthesizer.

The GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer is expected to be available in October with an MSRP of $99.00.

For more information, please visit www.RolandConnect.com."