Lucky and the Synths

flickr by Loscha
"Lucky the Cockatiel on the keys of my Casio CZ-101, which is driving the Korg MS2000r which you can see with lights flashing. He has a bit of a hop, then, decides he's had enough and flaps off. Video taken by Michelle."

Oberheim OB-Xa Parts

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Details:
1X UPPER CONTROL BOARD
2X MOTHER BOARDS
2X POT BOARDS
1X MOD/BEND ASSEMBLY
ALL BOARDS ARE IN GOOD CONDITION WITH ALL ORIGINAL PARTS.
THESE BOARDS ARE SOLD " AS IS ".
CONTAINED ARE :
48X SWITCHES
24X POTS/KNOBS
1X UPD780 CPU
3X 2716 EPROMS
2X CEM 3360 VCA'S
2X MOD/BEND LEVERS
PLUS A SHIPLOAD OF OTHER ORIGINAL PARTS."

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Electronic Musical Projects Sood BPB 1998

This one is in via Loscha. Click the right and left arrows on the bottom right of the player to flip through.

You can download a scan of the publication via the links on right here.

"Today we have a scan from my paper book archives.; Electronic Musical Projects by P K Sood, published by the Business Promotion Bureau of India - a company still producing educational material for IT.

These books were reasonably common in Australian Electronics Parts stores in the early 2000s. They were cheap, and there were several in the series.

Today I present Electronic Musical Projects, but I also have Practical Timer Projects, 555 Timer and its Applications and 41 Projects Using 741 I.C.

These books, particularly the musical one, has an almost Zine feeling to them. They're crooked, the schematics are lovingly hand drawn.

I have never built any of these musical instrument projects,

A previous scan of this books exists, but, it is unusable"

Description from the download link:

"A collection of electronic musical projects.
Book by P K Sood

The book provides circuit diagrams and an explanations of circuit theory for the below listed projects.

01 - Transistorised Audible Metronome
02 - Drum Beat Simulator Metronome
03 - Audio Visual IC Metronome
04 - Accented Beat Metronome
05 - Guitar Practice Accompaniment Drummer
06 - Bass Booster For Electric Guitar
07 - Treble Booster Preamplifier
08 - Presence Booster For Musical Instrument
09 - Connecting Pickups To Guitar
10 - Simple Preamplifier For Electric Guitar
11 - Multi Tone Control For Guitarists
12 - Complete Guitar Preamplifier
13 - Guitar Practice Power Amplifier
14 - Guitar Envelope Control
15 - Guitar Fuzz Box
16 - Simple Waa-Waa Circuit
17 - Electromechanical Echo And Reverberation
18 - Guitar Tremolo Unit
19 - Simple Sustain For Guitar
20 - A Single Transistor Phaser
21 - Professional Mini Phaser
22 - Four Piece Electronic Bongo
23 - Electronic Percussion Box
24 - Electronic Steam Whistle
25 - Marine Diesel Sound Simulator
26 - Rain Effects Simulator
27 - Wind Sound Generator
28 - Novel Sounds Generator
29 - Wailing Siren Generator
30 - Build This Opto Electronic Organ With Tremolo

I paid $6.50 AUD for this book on 2003-04-16. I have enclosed a scan of the receipt as a little bonus item.
Many other BPB publications were commonly seen in Australian Electronics parts stores, particularly Jaycar Electronics and their stockists. Please check my uploads for further titles in the series."

Inside and EMS Putney

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"Putney Butt"

Control Voltage Pedal

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. via Loscha.

"Linear and Oscillating Control Voltage for Analog Synths.
Performing with an Analog Synth, consists mainly of real time Timbre shaping. For this purpose 24dB Resonant Filters and Envelope Generators were created. The Analog performer will share his attention between the keyboard manual and the panel. Intended to release your hands to other tasks, this Control Voltage(CV) Pedal can control most synthesizers or other gear that has a Control Voltage input. This pedal can produce the following signals:

0 to +5V : As used in most current equipment both analog and digital. The current moog line works with this standart.

0 to +10V : Used in most vintage synths. Moog, Yamaha, Roland, Sequential, Arp etc...

-5 to +5 : Used by Analog Korg: Mono/Poly, MS-10, MS-20, MS-50, Polysix, PS Modular Series, Trident, VC-10 Vocoder among others."

Voice & Keyscanning Board

Inside a KORG Polysix

flickr set by Loscha

EMS Modules

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EMS Prototype Filter

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Details:
"Very rare filter bank made by EMS, 3 filters with resonance, separate outputs for HP/LP/BP/Notch Filters for weird stereo fx, very unique sound, internal LFO & external CV inputs. Probably less than 10 ever made."

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Black Quasimidi 309 Groove-X Klaus Schultze Edition

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via this auction

You can find a demo of one posted here.

"A special version of the Rave-O-Lution 309 with a black finish, special patterns, and two sound expansion boards (Drum X & Synth X)

A lot of the internal patterns sound like direct excerpts from Klaus Schulze's techno albums.

The 309 is pretty much a Roland TR808/909 drum machine with a TB303 built in. It has a sequencer, dozens of drum, percussion and synth sounds to choose from, four audio outputs, two audio input, built-in effects and MIDI.

The bass drum, snare and hi-hat sounds can be chosen from a whole bank of samples and have pitch and decay knobs to help find that perfect tone.

There's a 12-note polyphonic bank of percussion sounds which include a lot of synth and string hits.

The mono lead/bass synth has a variable lowpass filter with resonance so you can tweak to your hearts content.

Effects wise, there's the "Overblast" overdrive knob as well as delay, flanger, reverb and more!"

This one was spotted and sent in via Loscha.

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Clean-Up Raves in Ukraine

This one is in via Loscha, who spotted it on ABC News Australia. Click through for some video.

Left: The DJs play techno music as volunteers continue clean-up efforts. (Reuters: Viacheslav Ratynskyi ) - Note the Waldorf Blofeld, M-Audio keyboard controller, and what appears to be a Lumatone keyboard with accordian style keys.

"Buildings destroyed by Russian invasion become 'clean-up raves' for volunteers missing Ukraine's techno festivals

A bombed-out building in northern Ukraine has been turned into a rave for more than 200 people just months after the region was devastated by the Russian invasion.

The daytime 'clean-up rave' was organised by young Ukrainians who have been using dance parties to aid the recovery effort.

'Techno parties, especially rave festivals, it was our lifestyle before, when we met with friends and spent time," one of the group's organisers said.

'Last summer, every weekend festivals (were) here in Ukraine, in Kyiv.

'So, we miss it and we want to come back to normal life but our normal life now is volunteering.'

Shovels in hand, the volunteers tossed piles of debris into the loader of a tractor from the remnants of the centre, which was destroyed by a rocket strike in March.

Ukraine's vibrant club scene was brought to an abrupt halt with the Russian invasion on February 24.

A night-time curfew in the capital Kyiv forced lovers of Ukraine's party culture to combine the fun and freedom of a festival with rebuilding their homes.

Most of the Yahidne volunteers, primarily in their 20s and 30s, came from Kyiv, about two hours' drive away.

Others have come from the western city of Lviv and nearby Chernihiv, while some foreign volunteers have arrived from Portugal, the United States, Germany and elsewhere.

The clean-up was the group's eighth event so far, restoring the centre and 15 homes in the village."

Left: Ukraine was known for its vibrant techno scene before war broke out. (Reuters: Viacheslav Ratynskyi )

Left: Many of the volunteers are young people combining their passion for music and love for their country. (Reuters: Viacheslav Ratynskyi )

Loscha @ Frostwave Taal Taarang Tabla Hacking

Published on Aug 13, 2019 Edward Jones

Follow-up to Tabla Machine into Bass Synth Pedal

Lucky and Chewie at the Casio MT-65

The top two shots are Lucky and the bottom Chewie, both of course Cockatiels. flickrs by Loscha.

Yamaha Combo Keyboards

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Inside a Yamaha TQ5

via Loscha:
"Hey all, I had a few spare moments moving workshop/studio, so I took a few photos of the TQ5 for you all. I had a few more minutes at the end, so for a giggle, I got some sticky labels, and put them all over the machine so you can read what's what. A bit different to just scanning the layout page on the service manual. Also, I scanned and labeled a little corner of the manual to indicate where I tapped a Click Output. The TQ5 has a Metronome function. It is always full volume (it's post volume control), and it's only in the left channell. My very simple mod, as illustrated below, changes that. I just dropped a socket into the side (lots of room, jack is actually from a busted Rx5 - those things are a mineable source of good switched sockets), but you could use anything. It's not a Clock pulse, but an audio feed. You could take a clock pulse of sorts by taking signal from output of the first gates, and buffering, but it would only be 1/4 notes, and although that would have been useful on analog gear, this has true BPM control. I more use the output to lay down a seperate click track to play along with, even if just to have a meter flashing a light in time."

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Red Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to some nice shots via this auction. Click the image for a larger shot.

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Sequential Circuits Six-Trak & Drumtraks User Manuals & Warranty Cards

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via this auction

"Sequential Circuits Six-Trak; has unfilled warranty card included. A few of the pages in the back of blank patch or preset sheets and loose. There is some lose paper on the spine, I haven't repaired this, but this will be packed very carefully so it doesn't get worse.
Sequential Circuits Drum-Traks - Full colour four panel, ie one A3 sheet folded"

Note this is supporting member, Loscha's listing.

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Quasimidi RAVE-O-LUTION 309 [FULLY EXPANDED]

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via this auction

"Straight outta 1996 Germany!

Has all 3 expansions (see photos)
Audio [MORE OUTPUTS!]
Drum X [MORE CHUNKY BEATS!]
Synth X [MORE FAT BASS AND LEADS!]

The Rave-O-Lution 309 from now long gone German synth company Quasimidi.

It was generally sought after due to having tweakable drums from all the classic drum machines including 808s, 909s, and more!

While originally intended for techno (and it does techno really well!), its sound palette is quite versatile due to having so many tweakable options on the front panel."



This one was spotted and sent in via Loscha.

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Raj Musicals Deluxe Dhruva Drone Synth

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via this auction

A video of one recently went up here.

"This is a rare Indian audio synth. It produces sounds similar to a harmonium, with a primary oscillator and two harmonizing oscillators that can be switched on or off.

There is a main volume control, as well as coarse and fine tuning for all three oscillators. It is powered with attached power cord or C batteries.."

Update via Loscha in the comments: "These are actually from the 90s, although they surely do look 60s.

I contacted Radel Saraang for information about these devices,and they no longer had the schematic, but, confirmed manufacturing time frame."

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Lauren PolySix

Lauren and a PolySix keyboard

"Lauren from work holding the PolySix Keyboard Action before I delivered it to a buyer. She saw me looking at Synth Babes on Matrixsynth and wanted in on the action!!!"

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Yamaha SK20

Images via this auction.

"Its a combination of FM based organ, fully analog polysynth and string machine.. The organ section is without a doubt the best hammond sound you can get for a low price and it has many other charms too. The synth section is 7voice polyphonic, with dual detunable VCOs, and has a lovely warm juicy tone. The resonant filter has a good gritty and squelchy sound, and a beautiful ring to it. The ensemble and tremolo effects are superb too.. The string section is nothing to write home about but in small doses adds some nice character to the overall mix.

Made famous by Sigur Ros. When you get to know the sound of this synth you will hear it all over Sigur Ros recordings. Read what they have to say about it here.

Some user reviews here [HC]
and info here [VSE]"

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