Inside a Tiracon 6V

via Retrosound on Facebook

"Tiracon 6V service check. in the middle you can see the six analog voicecards"

Tiracon 6V "Leipzig`87"

(c) 2014 vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound
all synthesizer sounds: Tiracon 6V Analog Synthesizer (1987) Made in GDR
drums: Roland TR-707
recording: multi-track
fx: a bit delay and reverb

via Marko on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

VEB AAC TIRACON 6V, RARE ANALOG SYNTH

Uploaded on Feb 11, 2011 lesnevsky·13 videos

"VEB Automatisierungsanlagen Cottbus Tiracon 6V Analog Synthesizer - THE LONGEST SYNTH NAME IN THE WORLD :)

I bought it for 80$ 2 years ago in the not working condition, now it's alive in our studio, tnx to my great partner Maxim and to his talented father!

It has fat unusual sounding, midi for note and programs change."

Tiracon 6 V Synthesizer

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TIRACON 6V Hardware Synthesizer

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Final Set of A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers

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The listing is from the author Peter Forrest who states this is likely the last set.  These are great books and imo the most comprehensive.  Click on the pics to get an idea of what they are like.  Peter also has other items listed including The Museum of Synthesizer Technology and Synthesizer von Gestern II.

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Tiracon 6v / Rare DDR East German Synth

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PolyMiK breadboard synth

YouTube via MusicMiK. Remember you can search on MusicMiK on the top left for more.
"I started this project last weekend and i think this will be the synth with the shortest development time i ever made :)

Okay, in fact, much of the design was heavily inspired by the Korg Trident and the AAC Tiracon 6V, i just added sub oscillators, ring modulator, and some of the surrounding electronics. The firmware later will add a lot of power with several LFOs, multi-stage envelopes (thinking of 8 stages), microtuning and we'll see what more ideas i add into this.

I'll try to use an AVR to control this, but if it's not powerful enough, it will get an AT91SAM7S for this - like the one i use to control it currently.

The (nearly) complete 1-voice version of the synth is built on the breadboard, controlled serially by just 5 wires from the computer board, which of course will be on the main synth PCB also later.

Need to add the offset correction trimpots now, check if it's possible to do a fine calibration, then i think i will etch some voice boards to clean up the breadboard."

Accidental Polysynth

YouTube via MusicMiK
"Today, i played around a bit with the impressively simple VCO design of the Korg Trident. Analyzing some of its behaviour and adding sync between 2 of them with just one diode, i decided to add a 24db low pass filter also, which is inspired by the AAC Tiracon 6V filter.
By this, i sort of accidentally created a nearly complete and very simple synthesizer voice. Everything is linear controlled, but for a polysynth, i could use a multiplexed exponential converter like Korg did in the 80s.
Adding some analog switches, noise, maybe sub oscillators, this will give a very simple polysynth i think.
I will continue on this and i'm planning to make it an open source/hardware project for everyone interested in it."

Tiracon 6V sound demo

YouTube via MusicMiK. follow-up to this post.
"Those following me on twitter (SynthMiK) might have seen that i got a nearly complete Tiracon 6V to give the boards i recently showed an enclosure and make it a complete synth again.

In fact, i now have a completely working spare board set, because i was able to repair the ones that came with the synth also.

The restoration of this synth can be followed as a raw photo collection here: http://www.mik-music.org/gallery66
The power supply and the wooden side panels still need work, but this will take place in the near future.

I cut out my usual babble from the video to use the whole 10 minutes for the sound demo, the text has gone here this time.

I hope you have some fun :)"

Tiracon 6V board set brought to life

YouTube via MusicMiK
"I recently got this board set from an internet auction for an interesting price. The seller told it's unused - which really might be true, as i didn't see any traces of screws or so on the boards.
It's just the digital board, analog board with voice boards and the display board. The power supply without the transformer was also included but not used here, everything is hooked up to the lab power supply currently.
The EPROMs were still okay (sure, i first dumped them :), some chips were broken, and in some places, there was a mechanical damage.
All in all got this far in 2 days and i think i will get this back to life as a usable synth again."

Tiracon 6V | demo by syntezatory.prv.pl

YouTube via Jexus

"1989 VEB Tiracon 6V. All sounds programmed by WC Olo Garb. Video editing by WC Olo Garb.||| Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer."

VEMIA - Tiracon 6V

via this VEMIA auction

Tiracon 6V by V.E.B. Automatisierungsanlagenbau Cottbus

"Produced in '88 in East Germany, 6 voice analog synth, one VCO per voice, 3 LFO, 2 EG, 24dB LPF with resonance, 12dB HPF with resonance. Tiracon has basic MIDI, 32 backupable sound memories, pitchbend / modulation joystick. It has new capacitors in power supply, everything works well. Optical shape is very nice, except the highest F key was broken and re-glued (see picture). It comes with hard case and all manuals including service manual. Delivery from CZ to UK is 50 pounds, to continental Europe 50 Euro. More info here and here"

Prague Synthesizer Gathering

Remember these videos?
Both peteness and Tiracon wrote in with some more info.
via peteness:
"Thanks for adding my unpretentious YouTube videos from Prague. That was the meeting of czech/ slovak internet forum "Electrozone". Electrozone is interested in mixing, recording, FXs, synthesizers since 2002....... The biggest analog freak of us is Bodyia. See his site [Syntetizéry].

There was a first synth's meeting in Bratislava one year ago. Here is some pics from Prague a week ago."

via Tiracon:
"pictures from prague meeting:
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ew-ezonesraz-audiopro.jpg
ezoneaudiopro.zip (cca 15MB)

And all known vids on youtube:

Links to the individual vids: V-synth, Oasys, Promars, Microwave, -"-, Wavestation, Moogy, SH-09

Update: one more via petenesss
eZone sraz březen 2008

Tiracon 6V Audio Demo

Added to this post.

Tiracon 6V for Sale

on the Matrixysnth Forum.
Update: Audio demo via Tiracon:

The Tiracon 6V

You might remember the name Tiracon way back in 2005 from this post (more info there). The 6V appears to be a different synth. Below are the specs from this site where you can find a few more shots and info. Be sure to click on the link above the pictures when you get there for more. Also note this is hosted on Vermona site. via André

"6 stimmiger, polyphoner Synthesizer
VCO Wellenform : Sägezahn 4' und Rechteck 4', 8' und 16' kombinierbar
VCF : 24 dB Tiefpaß mit regelbarer Resonanz
3 LFO's : je einer für VCO, VCF und Pulsbreite
32 Programmspeicherplätze
Sequenzer mit 2 Spuren für 250 Noten
Chord-Memory Funktion
Interface für Kassettenrecorder zum Sichern
Midi: in out und thru
Gewicht 14 kg"

The Tiracon

Update: According to Lutz in the comment section, "This is a prototyp made in 1989 from AAC (Automatisierungs- und Anlagenbau Cottbus). It is a keyboard with presetsounds, some effects and a rhytm-machine inside. Its not a Synth !!!"

Update: Via Moogulator of seqencer.de. The Tiracon was not a by Vermona but actually a prototype that never went into production by an east german company. He didn't state the name. If I get it I'll include it. Would be an interesting bit of synth history to know.

Via Steveo on Sonic State's the-gas-station. Title link takes you to the post. Nothing on the Vermona site yet. Click image for a slightly bigger shot.

Update: Another synth, the Tiracon 6 is on the Vermona site.