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Korg MS20 - New Flickr Shots

via Flickr

Korg MS20. Click through for a couple more. Nice horsey.

midiGun

Gun midi controller for your synth of choice. In via Music Thing. Woot! : )

Theremin Farewell to Bob - New Flickr Shot

Caption reads,

"Theremin...rest in peace Bob Moog...we'll miss you greatly."

Rob Papen has made some amazing sound sets for various synthesizers. He is as good as it gets. It will be interesting to see how this new synth of his pans out. The demos on site sound fantastic.

Direct link to specs.

Little Blue Demons

Retrothing has an interesting post on why he hates blue LEDs. I love the picture of the blue LEDs in a row.

My vote for best statement on a blog:

"Right now I have two of the little demons glowing at me in the gloom. I swear I'm wasting half my time glancing at them." : )

MOTM/synthtech.com going down for the weekend

Update from Paul of synthtech:
"There is 1 point of confusion: when it comes back up, the shipping cart
will not be there at first. I expect to go on-line by Sept. 10th
when I have the new MOTM-995 .com to MOTM power connector boards ready
($29ea, cheap!)."

Via AH:

I'm upgrading my 'level of service' at my ISP over
the weekend. So the MOTM site will go down
(and hopefully, back up) over the weekend.

This is Phase 1 of a complete site overhaul. I'm
adding a shopping cart and links to PayPal for
making CEM chip buying easier (I can load the
inventory into MySQL and not have to root around
the storage closet every month).

Paul Schreiber
www.synthtech.com

Peavy Paradox - The Synth that Was Not

Click here for a site on the Peavy Paradox sub titled, "The Synth that Was Not." Well, this actually refers to it not being mass produced. The synth itself "WAS." But, there were only four of these produced. Click through for more including sound samples of this amazingly rare analog synth from Peavy of all companies. I remember when one of these came up for sale. I'm still kicking myself for not going after it. Note that the synth consisted of a 1U rack mount synth with the controller below being separate and not the synth itself.

Update: see this post for additional pics.

Bahn Sage

Here's a beauty. I remember when this started making its rounds. People were going nuts over it. Slowly more and more info came out only to find it was the biggest hoax in synth history. If you know of a bigger one please share. Thank you Elhardt for an amazing time and congrats on a master prank well done. You have made it into synth history. : ) BTW, this hoax had such an impact on the synth community that when the first pics of the Cwejman S1 appeared people were reluctant to believe it was real, thinking it was yet another one of Elhardt's pranks. A few people were admitedly a little surprised to find the Cwejman was real, including myself.

Alesis Aurora

The one thing I love about the synth world is that its just as much about the old as it is the new. Take for example the Alesis Aurora. Krhen took it upon himself to convert his Alesis Andromeda into this beauty of a synth alluding to the old analogs of yore. It has wood side panels and a full tilted front panel. Not sure about the ribbon controller, but the knobs definitely look more accessible. Click here for more pics and the story behind the Alesis Aurora.

Alesis Ion Prototype

Check out this Alesis Ion Prototype with yellow/green side panels and logo. These were the first shots of the Ion when introduced. Later they updated it with the red side panels that stuck with production. I wondered if there would be an option, but unfortunately there wasn't. Would have been cool if they came with a set of colored side panels you could swap out like skins for the synth. : ) No title link as this comes from my private collection of pics - not sure if there is a site out there with more on this. If you know of one, please feel free to share.