QUASIMIDI RAVE-O-LUTION 309 Limited Edition 2012

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Anyone hear of this before?  Brushed metal, silver knobs and clear buttons.  I thought it might be a custom job until I saw the display above.  Note the image directly below is upside down.

This one spotted and sent in by Loscha.

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Roland SH 09 Auto Techno from Loscha

Published on Jun 19, 2013 Edward Jones·62 videos

"Me playing with the SH-09 on a kind of self techno making sound."

"It does a few tricks that other lower-spec monosynths (the CS-01 comes to mind) just cannot do. The Bender was applied to the VCF position and manipulated in time with the LFO to generate a pulsing thumping sound."

Yamaha Music Interface for Apple IIe

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"Yamaha Musical Interface! A MIDI interface for the Apple IIe!!! For further documentation, please see this website. This is in fine collectors condition, and is as new and has never been used."

This one is via Loscha who says it's from Frostwave's Paul Perry's personal stash. That's a little bit of synth history for you.

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Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution Drum Machine SN 422622

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via this auction

"There are many technical photos of this synth at loscha.com These pictures are of the actual unit you will be buying."

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Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution Drum Machine SN 42262

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"Cat not included!"

"This unit is unexpanded (hence the moderate price)... There are many technical photos of this synth at http://www.loscha.com These pictures are of the actual unit you will be buying.

The power socket has a slightly broken shell, but the plug holds in no problems."

KORG Polysix/Mono-Poly era knobs.

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MATRIXSYNTH Shout Out in John Tejada Interview

This one spotted by Loscha in Australia's Sunday Morning Post. If anyone has a sharper scan, let me know.

"Found in 'YOUR GUIDE TO CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT': THE REVIEW – page 2"

MATRIXSYNTH and CDM get a knod. If you are not familiar with John Tejada's work, check out this wikipedia article on him.

Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution Resources via Loscha

Some tips and resources in via Loscha:

"www.quasimidi.eu are the service technicians, and they have spare parts and upgrades, and have manuals for download. It is in German, however, if you view it in Google Chrome, it will automagically translate the pages for you. ROM upgrades, Drum & Synth expansions are available.

The display connector has one more hole than there are pins. If you have it on wrong, the unit won't boot. Check before you screw it up, otherwise it takes four and a half minutes to get your heart out of your throat, because you think you've zapped your expensive synth. If you don't set the

The factory reset (power on whilst holding down Write/Dump) doesn't completely clear the memory, it returns it to the factory preset patterns and patches (including "The Robots" and "Voodoo People")
http://www.loscha.com/Raveolution-309/Quasimidi-famous-tunes.mp3

Yes, it has tablas in the percussion sets. You can rest easy.

I have not mirrored the manuals on my site, as they are available from www.quasimidi.eu freely and easily

Please Enjoy [tons of close-up pics of the inside]:
http://www.loscha.com/Raveolution-309/

Any sensible questions, please ask via raveolution@loscha.com and I'll see if I can help you out!"

Suzuki Unisynth XG-1 Guitar Synth with Original Box

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via this auction

"The guitar runs on either 6 C batteries or an AC adapter. Everything pictured is included. There is no strap present. The speaker is not super high quality - but it is a fun piece!"

Update via Loscha in the comments: "This has a Yamaha YM3812 or similar sound chip in it, the same as an AdLib sound card.
The drum patterns are those classic sounds, as are the patches.

The biggest issue to look out for, service wise, is that the connections to each one of the 6 piezo tranducers under the strings is prone to falling off, and requires resoldering.
The rubber on the neck is much more hard waring than Casios DG series.
There's also a MIDI-Only version of the Unisynth, but the note lengths are controlled by a single pot.

It's a great synth, usefyl for the way it makes you play differently, and puts your hand's natural tendancies out of synch."

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NAMM: Casio XW-G1 & XW-P1 Spec Sheets - Includes Sampling

This one in via Loscha

"The 2 lots of release envelopes on there means you can do Casio MT-65 style 'fake reverb', where the volume goes to 1/8th volume almost instantly, then the last 1/8th of the volume decays over 2 seconds.

You can also do this on the CZ envelopes.

They’ve taken a BIG leave from the CZ design. A shame the groove-synth version doesn’t have drawbars, which the Casio SK1 sampler had.

Interesting times for Casio."

Casiotone VL1 with Casio Magazines

via this auction

Would be cool if these mags were scanned online like Synapse. Loscha does have a ton of scans here.

Note the Crumar Bit One.

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Bleep Labs Thingamakit

via this auction
"Discontinued item from Bleep Labs.
This is the Kit, without an enclosure. You can build it into whatever you feel like!

The box indicates that it comes with one White and one Yellow LEDacle as I ordered, but I've not opened it.
LEDacles are the cute little antannae that come from your creation. They pulse with light, and are interactive at controlling the sound."

Note this one is via Loscha. If you mention this post to him he will throw in "a free extra photocell and some other stuff."

Box shot.

MATRIXSYNTH T Spotted

Loscha and a "Cremona Dvorak 1/2 size double bass. Made in Czechoslovakia. w/gig bag"

Also added to this post.

Check out the dudes face expression behind Loscha.

Korg Sigma Service Manual

via Loscha:

"Hello everyone.
No-one has this online, and I've been meaning to share it for quite some time.

This is the Korg Sigma Synthesizer service manual in it's entirety.

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EMS VCS3 Synthesizer SN 327

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via this auction

"It only comes with 10 patch pins unfortunately and a couple of those are a little on the wonky side. I spoke to Robin Wood from EMS and he can easily supply new ones. He also told me that he himself owned this VCS3 (Serial 327) between 1970 and 1971. Cool eh?

The Oscillator 1 pot slips from time to time, and there is a small crack in the VU meter cover. Apart from that its in really good nick. Obviously used but pretty good for its age."

via Loscha

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MATRIXSYNTH Swag & Hall of Fame!!!

MATRISYNTH Ts are $20 in the US and $25 outside the US. This includes the shipping cost, three MATRIXSYNTH cards and one magnet.  A set of three cards and one magnet, minus the T, is $5.

The T-Shirts are from Gorilla Screen Printing - highly recommended. If you get Ts done by them, let them know you found out about them here.

Paypal any amount to matrixsynth *at* gmail.com. Be sure to include the shipping address, size and whether you'd like long or short sleeves.

Below are some MATRIXSYNTH Ts and cards spotted in the wild. If you have them, send them in!

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Inside and EMS Putney

flickr set by Loscha
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"Putney Butt"

Yamaha G10 Guitar MIDI Controller

flickr by ecallender

You can find a resource site on the G10 here and some quick specs on Synthony.com.

via Loscha

Chickens and a Yamaha TYU-30

via Loscha

"Camilla is all white
Bok Bok Choy is White with a Black Ruffle
Kneidlach is Brown

They are the Bantam Sussex breed."

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'Jaguar' Super Low Pass VCF - Blank PCB + SSM2044 IC

via this auction

"Fresh from Somatic Circuits is the ' Jaguar Super Low Pass VCF ' an ultra high quality filter for the 'Luna Modular Scientific Synthesizer System'."

via loscha

Update via Mijoe in the comments: "For more information about the Jaguar VCF
go to http://www.somaticcircuits.com/"

Isao Tomita Casio Jacket

flickr by Loscha
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Also see the Casio Glory flickr set.
"The finest in Casio information is housed here."