REPAIR and PLAY Episode 2: *Double Roland Juno 106* Voice Chip Replacement and more

video upload by Big Mag

"A friend of mine brought over a Roland HS60 for repair. I decided to fix up my personal Roland Juno 106s at the same time - then made a track using both of them!

Roland HS60 - basically a Roland Juno 106 with speakers and different button/switch color scheme. Took out the speakers to make the whole thing a little lighter, replaced the voice chips, battery on the CPU, some of the tactile switches.

Roland Juno 106s - Basically the same thing as the HS60 except same exact color scheme as the 106. I believe this model was sold in Japan only while the HS60 was for the US market. Replaced the speakers, needed a new LED display, new battery for CPU.

New voice chips provided by Double Heart Audio

Live recording played w/
Roland Juno 106S
Roland HS60
Moffenzeef Stargazer
Keystep PRO
SOMA Pulsar 23
Tascam M216"

REPAIR and PLAY Episode 1 : *Novation Peak* Fader Replacement

video upload by Big Mag

"Teardown and repair of a Novation Peak polyphonic synthesizer. Includes synth jam using Novation Peak + Vintage Oberheim DMX. Sequenced by Keystep PRO."

REPAIR and PLAY Episode 1 : * Novation Peak Synthesizer *

video upload by Big Mag

"Teardown and repair of a Novation Peak polyphonic synthesizer. Includes synth jam using Novation Peak + Vintage Oberheim DMX. Sequenced by Keystep PRO."

Keyboard Mag. July '98 | What Was In It?

Espen Kraft

"Madonnas album 'Ray of Light' is an awesome album and back in the late 90s when it was released I listened a lot to it because I loved the somewhat groundbreaking work done by William Orbit on it. In terms of filtering and chopped up vocal effects.

Internet was still pretty new back then and magazines were often how we gained intel on how major productions were made. This is the magazine that made me aware of the ADR PanScan (as Orbit explains inside how he used it on Madonnas vocals) I will show you very soon.

By 1998, sample libraries were starting to take of more and more and the Gigasampler had been launched. To have a major sampler in a plugin form was so awesome after years of having to buy big, expensive bricks of electronics to get some long samples going."

An Interview with Barry Schrader

Hi everyone! As you know Barry Schrader will be giving his farewell concert at CalArts on September 26. The following is the beginning of my interview with him. I opted to post the questions and answers as they come in.  New QAs will get a new post so you do not miss them and they will be added to this post so we have one central post for the full interview. This should make it easier for all of us to consume in our busy lives, and it will allow you to send in any questions that may come to mind during the interview process.  If you have anything you'd like to ask Barry, feel free to send it in to matrixsynth@gmail.com.  This is a rare opportunity for us to get insight on a significant bit of synthesizer history, specifically with early Buchla systems, and I'd like to thank Barry for this opportunity. Thank you Barry!

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stanley the robotman is explaining a synthesizer

YouTube via mmrphs. via Digital Music Mag.
"Stanley Povoda, the worldfamous Robot-Man is now creating very strange syntesizers. They are hosted in old tape-machines, solariums, telephones. soon the time will show, that this was a big mistake to give us these devices. in this video the master himselfe is explaining how one of this small magic boxes is working. check www.metamorphosis.at to see more of this magic devices. video by christoph pajer."

The Webcor

Now this is an interesting little piece. Title link takes you to the shots saved from the auction. Text below - not going to let this one slip away into the ether. Check out the radio dial. Talk about a one piece band; just turn the radio on and play away. : ) Via Music Thing.



"HERE is one of the must bizzar O & interesting instruments I ever found at any point of my life. I call it my...Funky comodina!
I came across rheem keyboards, farfisa, rare technics synths, but the organ keyboards are always the winners on oddities, and today I present you the mother load of all oddity’s

"The music machine” by WEBCOR this little organ is probably the first workstation ever build, has a mixer build in has a tape recorder deck, radio FM AM, on board yes ...As I told you,crazy! The mic is also included and it is camouflaged on the tip of the antenna, a super SPY accessorius, on board rhythm section with 5 presets, really "fat" with a really "heavy" bottom and cool "crispy high hats"

Absolute beat box master. The organ section has a vibrato which sounds teremining hunting.The tape sounds fantastic, build in neve "like it" vumeters so cool, build in mic /aux mic in /headphones output, treble/bass EQ section ,and one of the coolest things is a real workstation! aspire to have a phono/mag preamp section, this is to much for a little organ build on the end of the sixties, yes you are right!!! Is made in JAPAN, rare because this is a Chicago base all American company, which used to make electronic bits for "Hammond" when they just start to make organs. WEBCORD which is famous for his wire tube decks have the expertise to make organs, why not a organ to have "all" including a radio, and if that’s not enough put a microphone a tape deck and not the last a input phono /line in preamp!!

Hey don’t forget the headphones, if you want to record the mic,organ and the rhythm section just hit record on your deck if you wanna use the deck to record the radio? Presto!

Each section has a Vol control AKA mixer then if you want to add some EQ, you have your treble & bass controls. A matrix switch which works like the UREI 1176 ratio switch control.

The 5-matrix drum machine works the same way and is interactive as the other matrix. The keyboard is in great shape and is an absolute electronic jewel, very rare, and I have never see a synth like this one before it is amazing, big booty octave section, is made in a very jetsons eames plastic. "