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Flypen - Draw your own keyboard and drums

Cool little computer on a pen. You can draw objects on anything and use it. Two things you can draw are a keyboard and a drum set. It has sampled sounds you can play for each. You can also draw a record button and start recording. To see it in action, click on the title link above and watch the intro. When the main kid says to click on more info below or to click on one of them for cool stuff, click on him and watch. Imagine synth manufactures releasing software for this. Picture a huge whiteboard and a dry erase marker, drawing modulars, step sequencers, anything. : ) Sent to me by Fernando Alves. Thanks Fernando!

Vacuum Tube Synthesis

I was reading this post on VSE and someone posted a few links to vacuum tube synths. Click here for an article on vacuum tube synthesis by none other than Eric Barbour, founder of probably the most widely known vacuum tube synth manufacturer, Metasonix. The article is a great read. I also found the following two sites on vacuum tube synthesis.

Papareil Synth Labs (make sure to check out the rest on this site).

The Electronic Peasant's vacuum Tube Synthesizer

Matrix FX

In via JH on AH. Matrix FX preliminary panel. Wow. Title link takes you to much larger PDF. Click on picture below for bigger JPG.

Korg 800DV Maxi-Korg Shots

Listed for sale on VSE. Title link takes you to a couple of shots saved for posterity.

Yamaha CS50 Synth Shots

Title link takes you to some nice shots of the Yamaha CS50 from Heath who also has it up for sale in the Boston area. More below including a Polymoog up for sale as well.



For local pick up only:

--Yamaha CS-50: It's in excellent shape, tolex is great, Lid,
everything works great. -$450. This is less than I paid for it.

Pictures: http://www.heathfinnie.com/cs.htm

--Moog Polymoog 203A with stand and polypedal. - $450

I'd say 95% functional. Which is very high given the polymoog's
history ;) I don't want to sell it, but I need to make room asap.
Serial number is 3811.

It comes with the polypedal and original stand. It's in great cosmetic
condition. The only issues with it are a few keys sit a little higher
due to needing new bushings, but they all work. It also needs one
voice card as the last note on the synth does not work quite right.
All slider caps are present. Also the attack/keyboard dynamics need to
be calibrated, but it still works fine.

For pictures I'm going to link to my Craigslist ad:

http://boston.craigslist.org/msg/106650611.html

I need to sell these ASAP which is why I'm lowering the prices. If
you're interested in both I'd sell both together for $850. I'm really
looking to sell in the next day or two. Again these are too big to
ship.

It actually does happen?

Update: And it was for real. : ) The seller speaks via Music Thing.

Roland TB-303 sold with a buy it now for... $150. : ) Real or scam? You be the judge.



From the auction:
"This unit is the best bass player you will ever play with! Roland's computer controlled unit to add incredible bass lines to any song. Play bass lines on the unit separately, or midi link unit to your keyboard and control from there. This unit has keyboard type of front panel to literally program in the bass lines part by part. It has a 4 track section pattern group, write or play modes, wave form setting, midi patch bay. Setting include tuning, cutoff frequency, residence, envelope modulation, decay and accent. It has tempo and volume controls, time mode, tap control, headphone out, cv out, gate out, output and a 9 volt dc jack. Flawless, mint condition, in the original wrapping and box for 23 years! It comes with original owners manual and warranty registration card. It also incudes an instrument cable. Manufactured in Japan by the original Roland Company! MSRP $395.00"

Specdrum

Via MusicThing. Title link takes you to the Analog Industries site with some samples and thoughts on the piece. Make sure to check out the Music Thing link for more info on what it is.

SCI Remote Prophet

The Remote Prophet was a Keytar MIDI controller from Sequential Circuits. It did not produce any sound and was meant to hook up to your Prophet 5 for remote keytar action. Title link takes you to two shots. You can find more info at SynthMuseum.com .

Various Synth Demos

Another "post a demo of your synth" post on VSE. These are great because you get to hear what a given synth is capable of without other synths in the mix.