Roland Service Bulletins

Title link takes you to a number of Roland Service Bulletins hosted on Synthservices.com. Make sure to track back to the root of the site for more. BTW, if you're looking for M64C or M16C carts, it looks like he had a couple as of September 05.

The Crumar Spirit on Sound on Sound

The Crumar Spirit came up on the AH mailing list recently and non other than Gordon Reid posted a link the the SOS article on the Crumar Spirit. SOS is a great resource in that they post many of their reviews free of charge online.



"Nevertheless, Crumar singularly failed to make it into the big league, so when they announced the Spirit in 1983, nobody took any notice. The world's interest was only marginally more piqued when Crumar let it be known that Jim Scott (one of the co-designers of the Minimoog), Tom Rhea (another Moog employee best known for writing many of Moog's synthesizer manuals) and none other than Bob Moog himself had helped design it. And that's a shame, because, as you will see, the Spirit is one of the most complex, challenging, and -- above all -- powerful monosynths ever produced."

Non-Linear Digital Implementation of the Moog Ladder Filter

Title link takes you to pdf.

LIFE

Meet the Little Infinite Frequency Expander. Title link takes you there.



"LIFE is essentially a compact self-contained hand held inspirational tool for everybody interested in the creation of sound. It is difficult to describe the sounds that LIFE can produce, words such as… "organic", "unexpected", "ambient", "hypnotic", "subtle", "analogue", "fun", and other expletives have been used by musicians who have used the device , usually followed by "can I keep it ?" and "how much ?".

Fractal Blue Electric Blue Voyager

Trip, the stary black below is the actual finish.



"The Electric Blue Voyager is housed in a fractal blue solid ash cabinet. At first it looks black but as one draws near the fractal blue flecks pop out in an eye catching display."

RMI Harmonic Synthesizer

via this auction. Via Rasmus A. Nyaaker. Thanks Rasmus!

""The Harmonic Synthesizer - a precise approach to synthesis. You are given accurate control of waveforms by Digital harmonic Generators [2 digital oscillators with 16 sliders for producing frequencies 1x to 16x]. At your command are relative intensities of all overtones to beyond audibility! Each of the two digital harmonic generators produce an independent audio output for exotic contrasts in stereo. Preset waveforms can be selected or mixed with the generators for instant changes. Dynamic effects are created by voltage-controlled filters with low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass mixable outputs. [The envelope generator for the VCF is very strange on the Harmonic Synthesizer. It has a knob to select "Sweep Up", Sweep Down" and another knob for time.] Intricate melodic and rhythmic "sequencer" patterns are created by holding chords. Digital circuitry insures tuning stability and "drift-free" performance. The controls are rugged. The case is tough. RMI enjoys a history of building trouble-free instruments."----[from the RMI Harmonic Synthesizer's promotional brochure]"

Nice Panties

Via PunkdISCO on AH. Title link takes you to the striptease.



Roland TB-303 AcidLab
"Looking left to right the new functions are:

Overdrive nob - self explanatory
Decay nob - decay control for the VCA (the standard Decay nob is for the
Filter Env)
Resonance nob - additional res range control
Accent Switch - turns accents on for each step
Accent LED - self explanatory
Slide Switch - Not sure as does not currently work but presumably turns
slides on for each step
Slide LED - self explanatory
Bend Switch (3 pos) - Not sure but does some very cool audio bending. Can
get really hard/nice bass drum and snare sounds aswell as other musical
stuff
LED under the Bend Switch - gate LED
xMod Nob - Cross mod amount
xMod Switch (3 pos) - wave cross mod source with middle being off"

PPG Waveterm Library

I haven't been to the PPG site in a while. Title link takes you the Waveterm Library page containing direct conversions of the original Waveterm disks in WAV format. There is a link to download the complete archive or you can listen to them individually.

Korg MS Series in a Rack

Title link takes you to a post on Moogulator featuring one of the first shots he put up on his synth site. It's a racked MS20, MS50, and SQ10. Title link takes you to the post with links to more shots.

New Hartmann Neuron Software

Via tahome in the comments of this post:
"There's new software for the Neuron and NeuronVS by one of the former developers of the synthesis technology (Stephan Bernsee) at http://www.osxtools.com" Title link takes you there.