Casio DG-20 & Ibanez X-ING-2010 Synth Guitars

Get your keytar on. Title link takes you to some shots of the Casio DG-20 pulled via this auction.

FEATURES:

* 4 different Acoustic Guitar sounds;
* 2 different Electric Guitar sounds;
* 3 other strings: Mandolin, Harp & Japanese Shamisen;
* 2 built-in pedal effects: Flanger & Distortion;
* 3 keyed instruments: Organ, Jazz Organ & Funky Clavicord;
* 3 wind instruments: Trumpet, Flute & Clarinet;
* 3 other effects: Glockenspiel, Chorus & Crystal;
* Built-in Drum Machine;
* 12 background rhythms: Rock, 16 Beat, Pops, Reggae, Country, Enka (don't ask... we don't know either), Swing, Blues, Bossa Nova, Slow Rock, Waltz & Tango;
* Synchro/Fill-in button
* 4 Separate Digital Drum pads: Snare Drum, Hi Tom, Low Tom & Cymbal;
* Tempo up and down controls;
* MIDI output

Here's a link to shots of the Ibanez X-ING-2010 pulled from this auction.

Features:
* 100% Fully compatible with vintage Roland 24-pin Systems
* Graphite reinforced neck eliminates the need for G-707 style stabilizer bar
* The only guitar synth controller ever built that supports ALL FOUR Roland Control Voltages
* Unique "virtual" whammy bar for perfect bends while maintaining tuning integrity
* Buffered control voltage electronics for circuit stability
* Custom Ibanez bridge with integrated guitar synth pickups
* Steinberger style headstock and design
* Precision microtuners in bridge for fast, easy, accurate tuning
* Two distinct Ibanez designed humbuckers for premium guitar tones
* Continuous control over modulation depth (no awkward touch pads with intermittent operation)

B. Killingsworth Electricity Poems, Vol. I and II

Via B. Killingsworth:

"I wanted to invite you to check out my web release on Backporch Revolution records (out of New Orleans). Totally electronic music.. and what I mean is that it is of the type that is more or less just supposed to sound like what it is - raw analog synth sounds. No sequencers used. Enjoy! (or not :) )... "

Description on Backporch Revolution:
"The tempo of cicada and cricket songs vary according to air temperature - drummers dependent on the environment for their pulse.

To say that the environment in southeastern Louisiana had changed by the end of summer 2005 was to put it mildly. A human drummer taking his cue from these surroundings would have short-circuited any second line band.

I wasn't looking for a second line party, but like vomit on Bourbon Street seeking its own level, I needed stability. My drummer would take his cue from 60 pulses per second - electricity itself.


Electricity Poems Vol. 1 & 2 was recorded on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana."

Vol. 1 (tracks 1-6) late winter 2006
* analog drum synthesizer triggered by an electrical ground loop
* Sequential Circuits Pro One analog synth
* digital delay pedal
* mixer

Vol. 2 (tracks 7-10) summer 2006
* tracks 1-4 of Vol. 1 fed into a modular analog synthesizer
* mixer

Title link takes you there. You can download and/or stream all tracks. Note the only synth on Vol. 1 is the Sequential Circuits Pro One.

BTW, you might remember the name Backporch Revolution from this previous post on Liteworks, another Backport Revolution artist from New Orleans and affected by Katrina.

Orange MFB Synth Lite II

Found this searching for an MFB Synth Lite image for the previous post. I've never seen one in orange before. Title link takes you to the source, the MFB page on sequencer.de.

Inside and MFB Synth Lite

No title link. Just the shot via Paulo: "I think that it is very interesting! Digital technology... the reason why it is so small."

The Wiard Woggle Bug

Update: This is not a new module. The page just hasn't been updated... since 2001? : ) via the comments: "The woggly dude dates back to around 2001"

"The newest module in the Wiard system is the Woggle Bug. The Woggle Bug is an utterly unique module that produces complex random voltages and tones. It reproduces the set of random voltages available from the original Buchla Model 265 "Source of Uncertainty" module. This long out of production module is representative of the most musical random voltage generators produced in the first "Golden Age" of modular synthesizers.

The Woggle Bug adds 4 permanently coupled audio VCOs to the random voltage outputs. Through a design trick, the single mechanical module contains the equivalent functionality of 18 electrical modules. Obviously, all the patch points cannot be brought out to the front panel."

Title link takes you to more info.








It's also worth noting:

"Each Woggle Bug purchaser gets a free lifetime membership in "The Loyal Order of the Woggle Bug", an imaginary fraternal order with the privilege of displaying this fine emblem upon your Fez."

Buchla 200e Sample by Ezra Buchla

Title link takes you to samples sent to the Buchla 200e group by Ezra Buchla, Don Buchla's son. I found it best to download everything to a folder and then play the samples as one entire, piece in order.

"there are all kinds of modules in there. i recorded a few seconds or minutes
of every system i checked out. it's pure 200e, pretty random patches, no
specific intentions...

one of the weirder sounds in there is a 227 mounted backwards and played
with fingers and a flashlight. try it if you dare but don't let the op-amps
get too hot...

yasi and i also recorded a couple of 'spine sessions' where we filled a
whole cabinet with one kind of module. we did one with 18 259's and one with
18 self-oscillating 291's. there's some of that in there, but sometime i'll
get around to editing a more focused thing i think.

both oscillators can produce lots of harsh staz without even using any
patchords; set the mod osc to modulate pitch in pitch tracking mode for
builtin fm feedback... cv feedback introduces some additional interesting
noise from the cv sampling rate interactions; use 2 coupled oscs in low
frequency mode and a 291 to make weird stumbling chaos glitch beats.

the phasor can do some pretty intense self-modulating stuff as well. use the
210+281+292+297 to make no-input tabla freakout."

Octavarium - JR Continuum Solo

YouTube via weirdjade27. Sent my way via frederic. More on the Haken Continuum.

Moog Sonic 6

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

via Loscha.

Soviet Analog Synth Altair 231

images via this auction.

Details:
"ALTAIR-231 is a monophonic 3'osc synth, it has 4-oct keyboard (F-C) with velocity sensitivity assign to vibrato effect. Sound control is performed with round knobs and switchers. For live performance there is a wheel which provides pitch shift (called glissando).

Synthesizer is based on 3 VCO (any can work as the modulator), 1 VCF (lowpass 24dB/oct) with ADSR, 1 VCA, 3 LFO, noise generator (white/pink), portamento. Consist of 5 main sections - MODULATION, OSC'S, MIXER, FILTER and AMP (called Contour).

MOD section:
- portamento on/off, rate;
- mod mixer knob: balance between modulated by OSC3 and noise, depth amount;
- vibrato on/off, octave shift to 1/2
- pitch wheel (glissando)

OSCILLATORS section:
- osc 1,2,3 registers - 2", 4", 8", 16", 32", LF
- osc 1,2,3 waveshape select - triangle, saw, square, pulse, sine
- osc frequency - freq 1..3, freq 2, freq 3 -linked to keyboard pitch on/off
- modulation on/off switch

MIXER:
- osc 1,2,3 on/off, level
- ext input level, on/off
- noise generator level, on/off
- noise mode switch: white/pink

FILTER:
- mod on/off
- cutoff, resonance, brightness
- attack, decay, sustain
- keytrack on/off

AMPLIFIER:

- attack, decay, sustain
- key hold memory on/off

Next - global section: main volume, phones volume, phones out (5din), A-440Hz tone on/off, power.

Connection 1/4 jacks: input, output, pedal input (5din), ground.
Power supply: 220V/50Hz, fuze 0,125A"

Serge Analog Modular Synth

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

Details:
"This panel was mainly designed as a control voltage generation /modification source and is the perfect companion to a TKB touch keyboard sequencer. It is a slightly modified version of the "Red CV 1" shop panel shown here: http://serge-fans.com/newpics/panel_red_cv1_150dpi.jpg I replaced the Random Source, CV Processor and SSG with modules that fit better in my system at the time, namely the Active Processor, Pulse Divider, CV Mixer and Dual Scaling Processor. I no longer have a TKB and am slimming back my system so I'm passing this on to a loving home."