SIEL CRUISE vintage analog synthesizer

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"The Siel Cruise is a very interesting, great sounding and unusual machine. It's the combination of two Siel synthesizers in one: the Siel Mono (monophonic section) and the Siel Orchestra (polyphonic section). In those days this machine was so appealing that Sequential Circuits acquired its license to release their own re-branded and re-painted version of the Cruise known as the Sequential Fugue. The Poly section was also licensed to ARP, who released it under the name of ARP Quartet.

Interface : The Cruise is a masterpiece of vintage Italian design: beautiful to see, effective and very intuitive. The front panel has a lot of graphical information printed on it to clearly designate the Mono section functions from the Poly section features, as well as signal flow charts to help the user understand how the sounds are internally routed.

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SIEL DK 80 Rare Vintage Analogic 12 Voices + Ram & Rom + BCR2000 Full Pack

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"Hello Music Lovers, this is the full pack for the wonderfull,rare,unknown,cool design & underated Italian Synth from the mid 80's (1985).
SIEL DK 80 Dynamic Bitimbric Synthesizer
12 Voices Analog Polyphonic
CEM Filters,Sequencer & full Midi implementation.
Suzuki Ram Pack in the box with Ram stickers included
Siel Rom Pack Set n°1 included
Power supply PS-80 included
Original Owner Manual included
BCR2000 Behringer with customised SIEL DK 80 Overlays included."

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Immaculate Siel Mono Synthesizer

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"Siel Mono - an Italian Monosynth from the early 80's. Siel were in partnership with ARP and some of the Siel range were also badged as ARP such as the Quartet. I have had a couple of these Monos and this is by far the best example I have ever seen - see pictures for condition. There is no rust - which is common on these - and all button caps are present. All sliders, switches and lights work. This one has a rare volume pedal with it that fits the din style socket on the back. This one also still has the back legs to tilt it up - these are often missing on these synths. It can do a good impression of a Moog, fantastic basslines, lovely Pink Floyd horn synths and nasty leads. Still has original Owner's Manual and Schematics which show it has been cared for."

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SSM Chips - Analog Synth ICs

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SSM2020 Dual VCA
"as used in Crumar Trilogy Siel DK600 Sequential Prophet 5"


SSM2030 VCO
"as used in Sequential Prophet 5"

SSM2031 VCO
"as used by Siel, Sequential and others"

SSM2024 VCA
"as used by Siel"


SSM2044 VCF
"as used in
Banana Poly Synth 12
CMI Fairligh II later versions
Crumar Bit 01
Kawai K3, SX240
PPG Wave 2.0
Siel DK600, Opera 6
Simmons SDS5

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Symbolic Sound Paca - Supercomputer for Sound

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"Includes a Paca sound computation engine with two processors and 1 gigabyte of sample RAM, the Kyma X software (for both Windows and Macintosh platforms) with over 1000 presets and 350 prototypes, the Kyma X Revealed! book, a FireWire 800 cable (please select a FireWire 400 cable if your computer has a FireWire 400 port). Requires a dedicatedcompatible FireWire or USB interface.

Paca is ideal for keeping in a tight studio space or for traveling, since they are small and light enough to fit into a backpack, laptop case, or in a small rolling rack.

On the rear of the computer are 2 USB ports, 2 FireWire 800 ports, and a DC power plug that connects to an external power supply brick. The Paca communicates with the Kyma X software (Mac/Win) running via FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394B) or FireWire 400 (IEEE 1394A) using an 800-to-400 adapter cable. Audio and MIDI I/O is handled by an external FireWire or USB converter or through a Capybara-320 with Flame FireWire I/O for current Kyma owners. You can also connect additional USB MIDI controllers, such as keyboards or fader boxes, using the second USB port."

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SIEL DK700 MIDI Master Synthesizer

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"The DK700 is a polyphonic synthesizer with voice assignment. It actually contains 6 complete and individual synth modules (termed voices or channels). It is fully programmable and able to store up to 73 programs in its memory when in DK700 mode and 55 patches for the simultaneous control of slaves when in master keyboard mode. Each voice contains two digitally controlled oscillators (to ensure the best pitch reliability on the whole extension of the wall tempered scale) with analog waveforms. It also comprises a 24 dB/octave low pass Voltage-controlled filter and an envelope generator; this means that the DK700 has 12 oscillators, 6 filters, 6 envelope generators and 4 low frequency oscillators providing parallel modulations of parameters such as pitches, square waves P.W., filters. All this is controlled by specific controls and memorized in the heart of the DK700; the "Programming Unit", which also provides to the management of the 73 timbric programs and 55 patches.

The DK700 is basically an updated version of the Siel Opera 6 with added midi-functions. It's quite rare and could be regarded as one of the best Siel ever built. Unlike the DK70/80, the DK700 has six filters and three LFOs to shape your sounds. Once you edited the sound you had in mind, there are plenty of memory patches to store it. This synth has a fat tone even without using a Chorus-unit. The sounds are very versatile and analogue. From synth-horns to weird effects, the Siel does it all with ease."

Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400 // In depth demo + synth tips

Published on Mar 8, 2019 DivKidVideo

"**TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS BELOW - SKIP AROUND!!** So here we have an in depth - deep dive - mega tutorial - ultra look ... or whatever other silly name for a demo of the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400. I'll take you through each module giving some tips and ideas of how to use them (AM synthesis on the VCA is great, linear FM on the sine is great for example) and in-between each section break the video up with patches and examples both playfully dotted around the house playing out of the speaker and with direct recording explaining how to make certain patches.

Check out my video building the PO 400 here

TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS

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EML Electrocomp 400/401

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"EML Electrocomp 400/401 Synthesizer Sequencer. Condition is Used. I bought this around 1980. It was first purchased by Cumberland College, now University of the Cumberlands. The music department wanted a synth, and then decided that this is not what they are after. I then purchased it from a local music store that brokered the deal. The number 503 is etched into the back. Not sure if this is the SN since only 300 were reported to be made. It is missing two plastic tabs on the sliders. Was serviced around 15 years ago and then put away. All sliders and switches work. Both oscillators sound but need some adjustment. Osc 1 is louder than osc 2 and is tuned a bit low. Being pure analog a service tech should be able to rectify this. Sold as is. A great piece to restore and flip.

About the unit. 401 refers to the synth section and 400 is the sequencer. It is designed so that multiple 400 units can be chained together. The sequencer has two sections of 16 x 3 sliders that can run in series or parallel. The synth is a basic 2 osc 1 filter unit. Note that EML does not operate on the standard 1 volt per octave ratio used by most modular gear. It is something like 1.2 volts per octave. This can be adjusted through simple CV scaling enabled by various modules, or you can ignore the standard when using it to drive filter and other parameters that are not note specific."

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Using Reaper DAW and software synthesisers on the Raspberry PI 400

Floyd Steinberg

"Using Reaper DAW and software synthesisers on the Raspberry PI 400 - table of contents below! The Raspberry PI 400 has enough CPU power to run multiple virtual synths and effects simultaneously. Let's waste these resources trying to run the ARM version of Reaper with software synths and effects. Reaper on ARM Linux does not have VST or LV2 compability, but we can use Linux' audio subsystem to route our audio and MIDI signals from one standalone app to the next, using even WebMIDI apps within our DAW.
Note: everything shown here will also work on all the other Raspberry PIs. Reaper is a very lean software, so it's a perfect match for the PI. If only it would support LV2 plugins. :-)

Table of contents
00:21 Introduction
01:00 Hardware overview (you should also buy the PSU)
02:43 Downloading and installing Reaper
03:19 solving the "there was an error opening the audio hardware" problem
03:47 ... and the "no midi devices found" problem (a2jmidi)
04:50 ... and the "no plugins available" problem (synthv1 and qjackctl)
05:14 how to set up the midi and audio routing in qjackctl and Reaper
05:54 armed with that knowledge, recording vocals & a synth track
06:54 adding an external webaudio reverb effect to a track recorded previously ("pavucontrol" and pulseaudio-module-jack)
08:42 recording a track with that reverb effect
09:51 conclusion / bye bye"

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Reaper https://reaper.fm
Raspiaudio https://www.raspiaudio.com/
Raspberry PI 400 https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/...

Siel Orchestra

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Inside a Siel Orchestra
"These are quite rare , built by well known Itallian manufacturer SIEL in the late 70's . SIEL also manufactured these for ARP which is know as the ARP Quartet, which is exactly the same except the paint job.It is missing a few of the coloured caps.

Good if you want analog string sound and basic sawtooth sounds for cheap"
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SIEL ORCHESTRA String Machine 1979 | HD DEMO

Published on Dec 22, 2013 AnalogAudio1·120 videos

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I played the Siel Orchestra dry, without any effects (except the intro music - here I added a EH Small Stone phaser and a delay from Roland DEP-5)

The Siel Orchestra is a string machine made in Italy. It has not only strings - it has a brass section, a strings section, a reed section and a piano section. Vibrato, attack and sustain controls. All sections are mixable. Mono output.

It is one of the cheaper string machines, small and portable. It is identical with ARP QUARTET, which was also produced by Siel in Italy."

Oldschool Synth Cruise Siel Tr 77 Korg

Published on Jun 9, 2014 Mutter Brocken·6 videos

"kleine melody mit dem Siel Cruise und den beats vom tr 77"

Siel Cruise Synthesizer short test

Published on Jun 9, 2014

"Mono und Poly Synthesizer in one
Made in Italy 1981"

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Teisco SX-400

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"The Teisco SX-400 is a quite rare little beast that lies somewhere between a Mono/Poly and a Jupiter4. I'm not aware of anyone else on this forum having one, and to my knowledge there are only 2 or 3 in the whole of the Netherlands.

So, to demonstrate what a wonderful thing it really is I decided to make a song only with the Teisco. So, leads, pads, bass, effects - it's all made by the Teisco SX-400. I don't use a lot of processing except a little reverb and some compression. That beautiful ensemble effect is just the 'ensemble' button of the synth.

You can really feel how raw and analog the Teisco is when you play it. The four VCO's are 'nicely unstable' and as you can hear from the main lead line, the VCO tracking is quite shaky Shocked

As for drums, it's simply a Drumstation, a little bit of Drumatic VST and a tambourine.

The song is very much inspired by 80's italo disco and I find that the synth really excels at that genre - it is from 1980 after all, which means of course, no MIDI. Everything is played in manually.

So, without further ado, enjoy the sounds of the Teisco SX-400

http://addi.hugsandimenn.is/SvenBit_-_Italo_Teisco.mp3"

EXPERIMENTAL SYNTHESIZER BASED ON AY-3-8910 CHIP

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"This auction is for an experimental synthesizer based on the General Instruments AY-3-8910 Programmable Sound Generator chip. The AY-3-8910 chip was used extensively in the early to mid 1980's as the main sound generator on a large number of commercial coin-operated video games. This chip has remained elusive to most since the extended data sheet is hard to come by. The chip was first manufactured by General Instruments from the late 1970's until the late 1980's, then a few were made by Microchip Technology. Early in the 1990's a pin-for-pin and functionally identical version was manufactured by Yamaha and sold under the part number YM2149F.

This experimental unit breaks out each and every register used on the AY-3-8910 into switches and controls so the user can manually adjust each of the three tone generators and the envelope control by means of control panel knobs. In addition, the unit is pre-programmed to work via a 61-key keyboard through the Lupine Systems Series 400 Keyboard Interface Board (included but not pictured). This interface board allows the user to connect any single pole un-matrixed keyboard to the unit. The programming is set up to assimilate each keystroke into the appropriate musical note assigned to each key. The user may shift the octave up and down by 1 on each of the three generators. The user may also select from the pre-programmed musical scale tuning or variable off-key tuning or a fixed frequency note.

Full envelope control is provided through the AY-3-8910 envelope generator. Included with the unit and pre-wired is one Lupine Systems Series 400 Filter/Modulator which provides basic LPF function and a LFO for modulation control.

The unit also has full control over the way the keyboard is scanned and processed, including an arpeggiator and key repeat/scan direction control. The speed in which the keys repeat along with the pulse width of the trigger can be adjusted to create a variety of unique sounds.

The unit outputs sound via four RCA jacks, one for each AY-3-8910 audio channel (A, B, C) and one "composite" output, which is an even mix of A+B+C. The unit also outputs a TTL compatable trigger for external triggering functions.

An expansion interface is also included which originally was used for a MIDI interface and to operate a YM2413 based voice unit.

Included with this auction is the entire experimental unit, one Lupine Systems Series 400 Interface Module for Parallel (unmatrixed) Keyboards, one 26-pin ribbon cable (which connects the unit to the Interface board), and a set of schematics. The schematics are for the Lupine Systems Series 400 Mini, which is very very very close to this unit but some of the pin numbers for the connectors may not be the exact same. A copy of the software for the PIC16F73 microcontroller is also included on CD-ROM in MPASM (assembly) format so you can see how the processor does its thing.

Keyboard is NOT included with this auction! Any 61-key keyboard (or fewer keys say 48 key is common on old organs) will work as long as it is NOT matrixed (multiplexed) and has individual switches for each key with a common ground bus."

I created a new General Instruments label for these moving forward. There was one post featuring the AY-3-8910 from Little-Scale back in 2011 here.

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SIEL DK-700 + Arduino TouchOSC Controller

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Video in the listing previously posted here.

"A super rare DK-700, the Siel flagship synthesizer released in 1986, equipped with a DIY Arduino interface to control all the synth parameters in real-time using TouchOSC on Android/iPad. The machine has been recently serviced by a professional technician and actually looks and sounds great.

Released in 1986, the DK-700 is the best and last synthesizer produced by the Italian SIEL right before the joint-venture with Roland Corporation and its subsequent turning into Roland Europe. The DK-700 has been on the market for less than one year so only few hundreds units were sold and this inspiring synthesizer never received the love it actually deserved.

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Siel OR 400

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"SIEL OR-400 Synthesizer. Arp eventually bought the rights to these in the 1980's I believe."

Siel Orchestra 2 / OR-400

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"siel orchestra 2 also labled or-400
its the later version of the orchestra 2 in blue grey metal case its similar design to the kiwi synthesizer but much smaller

propably the most compact multi orchestra string synth very small with so many sections
it has piano sounds hapsichord reeds which are basically organ sounds
a brass synth with filter resonance and the string section envelopes
also a very useful analog equalizer to shape the sounds
animator which is basically ensemble and flanger aswell as lfo vibrato section
the different parts can be layered to get huge retro italian film sountrack style sound im very keen on this synth sad to see it go but i also own the farfisa soundmaker which sounds very similar something needs to go"

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Siel OR 400

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"This is SIEL OR 400 ,a preset polyphonic anolog synth, but if you are just getting into analogs this thing is godly. 8 voice polyphony. VCF Animator Equalizer LFO HFO."

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Siel OR 400 Synthesizer Owned by Tycho

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"This Siel OR 400 Synthesizer is owned by Tycho

There are a handful of scuffs and scratches here and there as well as some dust and grime. The unit functions, however there are a handful of issues with some of the parameter knobs/faders being very scratchy—especially the volume fader. This unit will benefit from an overall tune up/clean to get it to function at 100 percent.

All items in The Official Tycho Reverb Shop ship fully insured with delivery confirmation and a signed and embossed Certificate Of Authenticity from Scott Hansen."

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Keytek CTS 2000

Two sites sent my way via swissdoc:
cts2000.html
m_keytek_e.htm

"The Keytek line was an attempt at reviving Siel around 1987. There were several models produced, the CTS-1000 (boring 8 voice synth, preset only), CTS-2000, CTS-5000 (piano-style keyboard), CTS-400 (4-octave keyboard, similar to CTS-1000?), and at several home keyboards (I know of the K-50 and K-60, perhaps there were more). As far as I can tell, the CTS-2000 is the only interesting model. The Keytek line didn't last long, as Siel went out of business and was bought by Roland. It's a fairly ugly synth, Obviously influenced by the DX7 design with membrane buttons and nasty 80's colors accenting its gray case. And it's fairly heavy considering the case is plastic."

Also see previous posts here.