Oberheim Stretch DX with Electrongate MIDI

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"Recently fully serviced and midi upgrade added by Paul White of Electrongate

Works and sounds amazing"

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Oberheim DMX 8-Voice Drum Machine

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"For sale is a 1984 Oberheim DMX with memory expansion running 3.2. I got this from the original owner where it had been collecting dust for almost 30 years. I addressed the cosmetic issues including refinishing the walnut sides with a Tung oil and varnish mixture and cleaned every nook and cranny of dust. I recapped all of the main electrolytic capacitors on the the main board and control board. Removed any components exhibiting corrosion from battery leakage including several IC sockets and chips. Any faulty chips were replaced by examples identical to the original equipment down to the manufacturer and year (not that it makes any difference). The screen was replaced preemptively to ensure years of use. After completing all the service steps in my abilities, I sent it to Electrongate/Paul White for the final debugging. He supplied some new buttons, battery, lid thumbscrews and sorted the last of the gremlins. It's now about as good as they come. The perfect platform for someone looking to add MIDI."

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Duo loopman 2 and white rabbits all you need

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Spitfire Audio - Spitfire Symphony Orchestra Solo Strings Update

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"Spitfire Audio announces update to significant SPITFIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA release recorded at AIR, adding three stunning-sounding soloists

LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio is proud to announce availability of an update to its significant SPITFIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA release — relatively recently relaunched with reviewed content and an updated UI (User Interface) in a single more user-friendly package that became last year’s bestseller as a set of flagship virtual instruments featuring full SYMPHONIC STRINGS, SYMPHONIC BRASS, and SYMPHONIC WOODWINDS sections (including solo instruments, plus harp, piano, and all core elements of percussion needed to complete the band), beautifully performed by top-tier musicians who have featured on some of the top film scores of the last decade, duly captured in Lyndhurst Hall’s hallowed acoustic at London’s legendary AIR Studios as some of the leading sounds and sample libraries creator’s best, most classic recordings, readily realised as a definitive selection of blockbuster sounds that have already made their musical mark in hundreds of AAA film, game, and TV score productions by the world’s top composers and music- makers — with the welcomed addition of SOLO STRINGS, featuring three stunning-sounding soloists, as of February 6…

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Oberheim DMX 8-Voice Drum Machine Signed by Tom Oberheim SN B44706

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Pics of the inside below.

"This DMX was upgraded by Paul White of Electrongate. He used to work at Oberheim back when DMX’s were being made, and he installed the MIDI in and out, which is based on the original design, and he changed the memory from the battery-backup to a longer lasting flash memory. A couple of buttons double trigger, and this can be addressed by just cleaning the contacts using Paul’s method, which could be found on his website. Aside from that, there’s a small mark on a wood corner and the front left edge has a small area where the paint is missing. Other than that, it is in fine shape. I have tried my best to show any imperfections in the photos. If you need more details, let me know. Even the original screen works perfectly.

Tom personally signed the DMX for my brother a few years ago, and it has been so important to them to keep it. There is also no known record of any other DMX having been signed by Tom himself. Like I said, my brother just got all they could out of it, and it would be best for it to go to someone who can keep it in good shape and enjoy it.

Since my brother produced a lot of work for clients with it, all patterns, songs, and sequences will be deleted, except for a couple that they’re leaving on to allow the next owner to understand how it works and to practice. The rest of the memories are blank and available for your own work, of course."

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Oberheim DX 6-Voice Drum Machine w/ MIDI

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video upload by Paul White

"Running through some basics of operation for the Oberheim DX drum machine. Programming a sequence, changing tempo, tuning the voices and testing the various audio output jacks."

via this listing

Pics of the inside below.

"This Oberheim DX has just been serviced by Paul White of Electrongate. He just finished it this week and it ships from Electrongate.

Everything is freshly tested and brought to spec. The unit has some exterior dings, but it is in Excellent shape overall. Guaranteed satisfaction!

Paul added the MIDI option and walnut cheeks to finish off the refurbishing.

Paul is the absolute best guy to work with. All the photos are his. He even made a Youtube video to show post refurbished operation."

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Error Instruments Tokyo System error system 7

video upload by errorinstruments paul tas



full system designed to help you explore and discover new sounds,

with a unique combination of noisy and crunchy tones that are perfect for experimental setups.

Please note that the systems are limited,

but you'll find it to be a beautiful addition to your studio or living room

, with its stunning wood finish.

What can you find in system ?

Teleblender

CLOCKWORK ORANGE

BUBBLES

WHITE RABBIT

VACTROL MIXER

GLOW LFO mk2

BRINTA GRANULAR SAMPLER

LIQUID GLITCHER .XO gold edition
WHITE RABBIT eurorack
INDIAN RESANATORBUBBLES experimental filter
Lucifer. oscillator

LOOPMAM TAPE DECK

Singularity Eurorack

Lolitas Dance gL

error drum. mk2

raw spring

dreams gold

www.errorinstruments.com

Dinsync RE-303

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"This was a custom-built RE-303 by Raf Wlodarczyk at Michigan Synth works. I had him use custom blue and white LEDs, that are nice and diffused and not too bright, so they are easy on the eyes and look very classy. I had Raf do some other custom mods like add the ruggedized pots, so they feel really great and will last a long time. All NOS rare parts sourced. This is essentially identical to a vintage 303 minus the CPU/Midi. This unit has the rare hard to find Quick Silver CPU upgrade, not the pixie. This unit also has the designer, Paul’s, ‘dice roll mod’ which overdrives the resonance just a bit making it sound a tad sweeter to my (and others) ears. I used this one on my last album. I will miss it but already have 3 303's so need to make room for more gear."

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Modular Percussion: Rings, Elements and Stolperbeats

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"Super excited to be part of Dutch Modular Fest @dutchmodularfest4609 today - a super nice one day modular meet in Utrecht NL with workshops, lots of great synth makers and concerts. We will be showing our #Stolperbeats drum trigger sequencer and a handful of rare unreleased prototypes.

If you've been eyeing one of our Eurorack DIY kits and you want to build it together with us, today is the perfect opportunity! Hang out with us and build a Farbfolder, Farbshaper, Farbhighpass or TausenddB and Multiplikand with us.

Our friends Stijn and Priscilla from TiNRS @thisisnotrocketscience3942 will be showing their awesome new collaborations with Paul Error Instruments@paultasbeeb: Brinta, a lovely granular module for live recording and processing audio, and White Rabbit, a fantastic reverb and delay ranging from etheral to glitchy.

Lauri @vaski will show off his beautiful new 2HP Lights Stereo Visualizer audio visualisation module and a handful of other incredibly clever utilities like the ECS-4 Triggered Switch and his AM-3/3 Triple Attenuverter Matrix.

We've been playing with prototypes of these modules for a while and it's super exciting to see them being released now!

Today's video is a little jam that happened when packing for Dutch Modular Fest. Stolperbeats is seen here sequencing Mutable Instruments awesome physical modelling synths #Elements as well as #Rings through their Streams dual dynamics gate with percussion from our own secret modular drum prototype.

The reverb in this sketch is @Befacosynth Lich, a great programmable multi-function module based on the @RebelTechnologies OWL platform. If you are into PureData, Max or Faust, you should give this one a whirl!

Dutch Modular Fest
Pieter Baan Centrum
Gansstraat 164
Utrecht (NL)

Market and Workshops from 11:00
Music program from 15:00 - 23:00

www.dutchmodularfest.com"

Brinta granular sampler in Eurorack

video upload by errorinstruments paul tas

"Proud to present BRINTA.

made whit love in Amsterdam

Developing something special together TINRS

BRINTA – golden grain circle - granular sampler

Circle of sound – spilling the Brinta – follow the white dot – banged grain.

Samples three-and-a-half seconds of audio (one moment) cuts it into thousands of pieces. Little grains of sound. You can mix the sound grains in speed and order. You re-arrangement it.

When the red dot is running around the circle it is recording. Your sample becomes the circle. Blue for high frequency, green for mid and red for low. Colours mix accordingly and when they all come together in white-light, you have white-noise. Once your sample is recorded the white dot can run around the circle, spawning little golden heads playing your sample. The size of the grain is how long your play head exists.

Record: push to start and to stop
12HP

42mA +12V

4mA -12V

5V 0

Skiff friendly

to goood PRICE 250 ex"

Also see Error Instruments & TINRS BRINTA & BUBBLES Eurorack Modules

Cabinet of curiosities 🙏 Cabinet of dreams

video upload by errorinstruments paul tas

The Cabinet of curiosities. sestem 4 his full system is designed to help you explore and discover new sounds, with a unique combination of noisy and crunchy tones that are perfect for experimental setups. Please note that the systems are limited, but you'll find it to be a beautiful addition to your studio or living room, with its stunning wood finish.

What can you find in system ?
Broken tape tracker [ gold ]
LUCIFER VCO /DRUM
LOLITA,s DANCE . trigger sqwens
RAW SPRING
ERROR DRUM
BALARINA
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
WHITE RABBIT
SOUNDSCAPER
VACTROL MIXER
BANANA TO EURO
INDIAN RESANATOR
TROPICAL NOISE NEO
IMAGINARY FRIEND
cloudbusting orgone drum
TASSEL


video upload by errorinstruments paul tas

The Cabinet of Dreams. sestem 5 his full system is designed to help you explore and discover new sounds, with a unique combination of noisy and crunchy tones that are perfect for experimental setups. Please note that the systems are limited, but you'll find it to be a beautiful addition to your studio or living room, with its stunning wood finish.

What can you find in system ?
Broken tape tracker [ gold ]
LUCIFER VCO /DRUM
LOLITA,s DANCE . trigger sqwens
RAW SPRING
ERROR DRUM
TELE BLENDER
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
WHITE RABBIT
SOUNDSCAPER
VACTROL MIXER
BANANA TO EURO
INDIAN RESANATOR
TROPICAL NOISE NEO
IMAGINARY FRIEND
cloudbusting
TASSEL

White Rabbit | by Error Instruments & This is not RocketScience

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I noticed a White Rabbit PCB when I visited TiNRS HQ in Amsterdam (and space orbit) a few months ago and found out it was an Error Instruments FX module with a TiNRS engine. A week later, I saw Paul Tas (Error) perform with it at a SAW performance. (SAW is a brand new modular channel dedicated to modular artists performing in an industrial setting - opening soon - and the Lab is a 'sponsor'). He was playing a powertool, processed by the Rabbit. In short, it's a Delay/Reverb FX unit in 8 HP, and it has some nice algorithms that will blow a fresh hurricane through your rack - or add a beautiful glow to your ambient fluffy bunny patch.

This video features imaginary quotes by A.I. generated US presidents. They are not real. They're just proof we're going down the rabbit hole very fast. I can't show you what the Matrix is. You'll have to see it for yourself."

Errorinstruments White Rabbit Experimental, Effects Processor in Eurorack

video uploads by errorinstruments paul tas

Playlist:
White rabbit experimental, effects processor in eurorack
White rabbit and ballerina eurorack
White rabbit and drums
Testing white rabbit, and soundscaper eurorack



EXPERIMENTAL MULTI-EFFECTS

White Rabbit has REVERB and DELAY sound effects. Fall down a rabbit hole with deep sounding spatial effects. You can send your White Rabbit down different paths or take the ERROR door into other spaces. All effected by Y and the big X holding onto time.

White Rabbit is a collaboration between ERROR and TiNRS; connecting their physical and virtual spaces with crazy creativity in object and DSP.

The first switch sends the rabbit down to REVERB or DELAY holes – or sitting in the middle doing nothing.

The second switch choses Standard, Pingpong or Error DELAYS and Hall, Experimental or Error REVERBS.

DELAY

Standard –Shouting down the rabbit hole. X changes time to echo and Y the amount of feedback

Pingpong – Stereo hopping between channels. X determines the airtime of the bounce and Y keeps stacking the signal.

ERROR – Karplus-Strong algorithm plucking your signal. X is the length of the string and Y is the dampening. Set X all the way to the right and connect the output to the input to create a self-oscillating sound that you can control.

REVERB

Hall – Unexpected big space. X is the size and Y the brightness of the space.

Experimental – Cinematic shimmer. Y is pitch bending and X is the size of the space

ERROR – Like sticking your head in a metal bucket. X is the size of the bucket and Y is granular. Set X all the way to the right and connect the output to the input to create a self-oscillating sound that you can control.

The third knob is the Wet / Dry mix. To the left is dry and to the right is wet. Soaking White Rabbit.

All inputs and outputs are stereo.

+12V = 24mA
-12V = 4mA
8 HP
5V = 0mA

Error Instruments Lucifer Evil Oscillator Eurorack Module

video upload by errorinstruments paul tas

Lucifer. It’s a dark FM Oscillator that also can be used as drum .

The sounds are created by frequency modulation

in a low level of sub bas sounds but also really high

The cross modulation of the frequencies and make

it extra mechanical sometimes like a drill machine Of your dentist

If it’s about noise Or will he deep and dark drones.

Lucifer Have three audio outputs The main output on the right .

the FM drones . The left output for different noise levels .

In the middle jack out there is the drum You can use this with trigger or gate

In the middle is the switch with different sounds .

All the way up . Light In the middle .the white night All the way under .

dark night This is inspired on the knights in Scandinavia

there are almost hallucinating . Very complex and dark oscillator For experimental purpose 8hp 20 ma

EMS Founder Peter Zinovieff Has Passed Away

Update: Image of Peter Zinovieff (previously in via Brian Kehew).

"Circa 1975: A photo from the Frankfurt Music Fair

Peter Zinovieff in the EMS synthesizer booth.

They are featuring the rare SYNTHI P model, just announced on the left side and stand. Underneath the board listing EMS musical artists is a SYNTHI HI-FLI effects unit is barely seen. Another unusual/prototype model is next to the Hi-Fli."


Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios video upload by JeffreyPlaide


Peter Zinovieff: Synth Pioneer video upload by Sound On Sound magazine Jul 21, 2016


Peter Zinovieff talks about modern musical interfaces video upload by Expressive E Jan 6, 2016


Peter Zinovieff feature uploaded by Erica Synths on Nov 23, 2020. This was the latest video to feature Peter Zinovieff that I am aware of.


Peter Zinovieff interview 2015 video upload by 香港電子音樂社 Hong Kong Electronic Music Society Jun 30, 2015


Dr Peter Zinovieff intro & performance excerpt - Deliaphonic 2017 video upload by Deliaphonic Aug 29, 2018

And a few perspectives from others:

Bright Sparks Behind The Scenes - The Brits video by GForce Software published Feb 16, 2021

Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast hosted by The Galaxy Electric - E1 Peter Zinovieff

video by The Galaxy Electric published Jan 27, 2021

Peter Zinovieff Electronic Calendar

video by Mark Jenkins published Dec 9, 2019 - Electronic Calendar available through this post.

You can find a history of posts mentioning Peter Zinovieff here.

via The Guardian

"Peter Zinovieff, a hugely influential figure in British music whose early synthesisers helped to change the sound of pop, has died aged 88. He had suffered a fall at home earlier this month.

With its marketing slogan 'think of a sound – now make it', his company Electronic Music Studios (EMS) was one of the first to bring synthesisers out of studios and to the public. With products such as the portable VCS3 and Synthi A, EMS customers – including David Bowie, Kraftwerk, the Who, Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd – were often taught to use the instruments by Zinovieff.

In 1967 he collaborated with Paul McCartney on Carnival of Light, a performance of a 14-minute avant garde composition created between Beatles sessions for Penny Lane that has never been released.

He was also a respected composer of his own work, including early experiments with AI composition and sampling – he claimed to have invented the latter technique." You can read the full post here.

via Wikipedia:

"Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British engineer and composer, whose EMS company made the VCS3 synthesizer in the late 1960s. The synthesizer was used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd[3] and White Noise, and Krautrock groups[4] as well as more pop-oriented artists, including Todd Rundgren and David Bowie. In later life he worked primarily as a composer of electronic music.

Zinovieff was born on 26 January 1933;[5] his parents, Leo Zinovieff and Sofka, née Princess Sophia Dolgorouky, were both Russian aristocrats, who met in London after their families had emigrated to escape the Russian Revolution and soon divorced.[6] During World War II he and his brother Ian lived with their grandparents in Guildford and then with their father in Sussex. He attended Guildford Royal Grammar School, Gordonstoun School and Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in geology.[7][8]

Zinovieff's work followed research at Bell Labs by Max Mathews and Jean-Claude Risset, and an MIT thesis (1963) by David Alan Luce.[9] In 1966–67, Zinovieff, Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson ran Unit Delta Plus, an organisation to create and promote electronic music. It was based in the studio Zinovieff had built, in a shed at his house in Putney. (The house is near the Thames, and the studio was later partially destroyed by a flood).[10][11] EMS grew out of MUSYS, which was a performance controller operating as an analogue-digital hybrid.[12] It was a synthesiser system which Zinovieff developed with the help of David Cockerell and Peter Grogono, and used two DEC PDP-8 minicomputers and a piano keyboard.[13] Unit Delta Plus ran a concert of electronic music at the Watermill Theatre in 1966, with a light show. In early 1967 they performed in concerts at The Roundhouse, at which the Carnival of Light was also played; they split up later in 1967.[11] Paul McCartney had visited the studio, but Zinovieff had little interest in popular music.[14]

In 1968, part of the studio was recreated at Connaught Hall, for a performance of pieces by Justin Connolly and David Lumsdaine.[15] At the IFIP congress that year, the composition ZASP by Zinovieff with Alan Sutcliffe took second prize in a contest, behind a piece by Iannis Xenakis.[16]

In 1969, Zinovieff sought financing through an ad in The Times but received only one response, £50 on the mistaken premise it was the price of a synthesiser. Instead he formed EMS with Cockerell and Tristram Cary.[17] At the end of the 1960s, EMS Ltd. was one of four companies offering commercial synthesizers, the others being ARP, Buchla, and Moog.[18] In the 1970s Zinovieff became interested in the video synthesizer developed by Robert Monkhouse, and EMS produced it as the Spectron.[19]

Jon Lord of Deep Purple described Zinovieff as "a mad professor type": "I was ushered into his workshop and he was in there talking to a computer, trying to get it to answer back".[20] Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, in their history of the synthesizer revolution, see him rather as aristocratically averse to "trade".[21]

Zinovieff wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Mask of Orpheus,[22] and also the words for Nenia: The Death of Orpheus (1970).[23] The section Tristan's Folly in Tristan (1975) by Hans Werner Henze included a tape by Zinovieff."

Update:

Peter Zinovieff: A Tribute by CatSynth TV

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We look back at the life and work of Peter Zinovieff, who passed away last week at the age of 88. His work at Electronic Music Studios (EMS) was a major influence on musicians of the 1970s and beyond. At EMS, he co-created the well-known and coveted VCS3 and Synthi series. But he was also a composer in his own right, working on pioneering electronic music in the 1960s and returning to active composition in the 2010s with several collaborations with artists in other media and exploring massive sound spatialization.

Additional background music provided via the Arturia Synthi V as a tribute."

You can find additional posts featuring Peter Zinovieff here.

Studio Electronics Eurorack Modules

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"What's nice about our OSCILLATION stunner (according to Tim) "is that the waveforms are DC-coupled [components connected directly together without any coupling capacitors], so they keep their shape even at sub-Hz speeds. The outputs are also buffered, so the amplitude is independent of the load they are driving. The waveform levels on some modern eurorack OSCs are often all different, and they vary depending if they go into the mixer or directly to the filter!" Coupling the circuitry without capacitors in-line gives the go-ahead for the full spectrum of frequencies to do their thing, and ensures near identical response over the years—audiophile, transistor-protecting signal path stuff here. You should see these beauts on the scope: a Class-A ballet of balance and proportion, only drawing modest current, rather evenly from plus and minus."

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Dinsync Gilbert Analog Synthesizer

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"DinSync (Paul Barker) is the DIY synthesizer genius behind the RE-303 replica of the Roland TB-303. The Gilbert is his own design to recreate the sounds the equally famous Roland SH-101. Yes, it sounds just like the originals - AMAZING!

Professionally built and fully calibrated using precision equipment. This is a backup unit that has been in storage. It's only been used twice and has been fully tested and is ready to rock.

Use Gilbert with the sequencer of your choice! Use it with a MIDI sequencer using a MIDI/CV converter (check my other auction: Syntecno Teebee 303 clone with MIDI/CV converter.)

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Steve Linsey’s Roland SH-101 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer W/Mod Grip?

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"From legendary producer, songwriter, and publishers Steve Linsey’s personal collection and in pristine condition.

Vintage 1980s Roland SH-101 in RARE BLUE and with mod grip. In perfect working order and recording ready."

via Wikipedia: "In his mid-20s, Lindsey built a studio at his Ocean Park home, and began making demos for artists such as Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, and Julie Brown.

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Rock Excerpts on the Atari Hotz - Either End of August, Soul Crusher and The Unforgiven -Roland 2080

Published on Jan 12, 2020 Clint Thompson

"It’s time to finally start playing the instrument of the future, in the future! #2020 Here are a few rock excerpts played by myself on an Atari Hotz Wing II MIDI Controller through the Roland 2080 synth. As you can hear, the Roland 2080 (circa 1996) is quite capable of playing some heavy guitar tunes and really nice sounding bass for the Bruford cover!

1. Either End of August by Bill Bruford
2. Soul Crusher by White Zombie
3. The Unforgiven by Metallica"

Lightwave with Paul Haslinger / Atari Hotz

Published on Dec 28, 2019 Clint Thompson

"Paul Haslinger playing the Atari Hotz Box with Lightwave at The Astoria in U.K. in 1992. This is a small clip near the end of an hour-long promo VHS from Lightwave - Christopher Harbonnier and Christian Whitman."

Additional posts featuring the Atari Hotz

Broken TAPE Simulator Stand Alone

Published on Oct 29, 2019 paul tas

Follow-up to the Broken Tape Simulator Eurorack Module

"Broken tape simulator Standalone tabletop brickie format . The box is created to simulate the sound of that tape recorder who is broken.It has a really special sounds you control the pitch .And the bit rate of a compressed audio sound . It’s creating a lo-fi feedback.If you are using to the knob fast .You get a totally different feedback then slow .and of course everything between . The speed of the movement. the sensor. There is a small sensor That you can control by pushing the switch.Then there will be light. The big knob is the offsets. If you’re using the sensor. There’s also a CV in For manipulate the big knob . You can use it in eurorack or korg volcas .That small knob.Don’t have so much influence only on distortion and feedback.A little. How does it work? You can turn it on make sure everything is plugged . If you are using an import for example oscilator.Turn the knob all the way to the Right . Then you hear the compressed sounds lofi .Then turn it easy to the left .Then you hear the pitch changing . Of a compressed sound. the Movements has influence aan de feedback. Please also check the demonstrations movie"

Three knob styles: brickie, bakliet, and cotum white retro via errorinstruments.

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