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Friday, July 14, 2006

WMS 1020A Analog Sequencer

Title link takes you to more shots pulled from this auction.
"1970s vintage WMS model 1020A analog sequencer, serial #D10218, and accompanying power module #100-D. This unit is in very nice to excellent used cosmetic condition and 100% fully functional plug-and-play condition. All jacks on the unit are 1/4" and it runs on 117V US voltage. WMS (i.e. Wasatch Music Systems) was a very small 1970s US company and I believe they were based out of Utah.

This unit is so incredibly rare that I haven't ever seen another for sale, though I'm guessing they made at least 17 others... my logic being that the serial numbers likely started at 1020x (due to 1020 being the model number). It's very cool and very flexible. It has many of the features of the great Arp Sequencer like random mode, a voltage controlled clock that can be normalled to the second voltage row and individual outputs for each row with parallel and serial mode. Serial mode is particularly cool on this one because the A/B outputs both flipflop at the end of the row (with LEDs!) so both outputs functionally serially and opposite each other. Though it is missing a couple of important features of the Arp (quantizer and gate busses) it has a few bonuses of its own, like the negative voltage outputs, switchable V-trig / S-trig gate output to drive pretty much any kind or brand of synth with cv/gate inputs, and of course 2 extra steps per row. And it is much smaller than the Arp Sequencer. All jacks are 1/4" and the "Carry" output is a reset trigger output so you can use it to restart your other sequencers in your setup. Other functions should be fairly self-explanatory if you've used analog sequencers before. One thing that's a little weird at first is that both voltage rows are at zero when they the knob marker is on the line... this means that zero for Row A is at 6 o'clock while zero on Row B is at 12 o'clock. Oh, and check out the killer fake wood (plastic) end cheeks with relief WMS logo on them!"

Jamming with Roger Manning Jr. on YouTube



via ben shannon illustrator.

PAiA Fatman Plus


This one in via Brian Comnes. More pics here.
Update via Steve in the comments:

"Hey, that's mine. You should see the original which that was rebuilt from. A nice, rusty metal box, but it all was unlabeled and it didn't actually work."

http://www.nuxx.net

Another update via Steve:
"Sorry, took me a bit to reply. I just added a switch to sync the VCOs, the subharmonic generator(s), the new case, and a couple of other things. I figured that made it a 'Plus' to the current synth. I wanted to keep the original name since it's still very clearly a FatMan, but I wanted to differentiate it somehow.

-Steve"

Nanoloop Gameboy Synthesizer - New Flickr Mail

flickr by Kriton Visuals.

Upate via the comments: "Hey, that's my photo! And that Nanoloop is for sale at the moment, by the way." Post a comment if you're interested.

Wohmart Voyetra 8 Site

Title link takes you there.

Plan B Mystery Meat

Via Peter Grenader of Plan B on AH.

"The following link is a soundbyte of an all-Plan B patch, which along with a
single Model 10, 13 and 15, incorporates three modules you've not seen nor
heard before...but you will real real soon. That's all I'm going to say.

OK OK OK, one more thing: that ain't the Model 12 filter you're hearing.

bWuH-hA-Ha....

link

enjoy (or not!),

- P"

Oberheim Four Voice Sample


Click here for a 5.2M sample via Heath Finnie. Via this VSE post.

Shot via Heath's flickr set.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

last disco at the fan mile - New Flickr Shot

flckr by Melita.

To the guy that complained about me putting up every single flickr shot I come accross: this one's for you. : P

Zena SoundScape Project

Title link takes you there. Via David:

"I've been a regular matrixsynth blog reader since I first put my hands
on a little blue novation laptop module ... now I recorded a few demo
tracks, and it would be a great honor for to be worth a post on your
blog

The music is Ambient, and not nova only : I also used some an
Andromeda, Wavestation, K2000 and Novation Nova, while all drum
sequences come from laptop based software : recording gear shots are
on the way ...

Mainly a live session, mostly live FXs, slightly cut and reworked ...
of course any comments/advices are welcome :-)"

I like it. ; )

MS-02 Schematic



Title link takes you to the full scan. Here's one in color. Both mirrored here.
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