ARP Manuals

No title link, just three shots via this auction.

"3 ORIGINAL ARP SYNTHESIZER MANUALS - MANUALS FOR THE ARP QUARTET, ARP MINUS NOISE MIXER, ARP PIANO."

via brian comnes



There is also a decal here.

PAiA Modular

Remember this giant PAiA modular? Here's another shot of it via plexus. Title link takes you to an even larger shot.

Update via plexus in the comments:i like to push the limits. and i cant justify nor afford aquiring a moog modular. so i thought "what about that paia modular stuff from the 70's?" i went shoping on ebay years ago and foung a farily large system. when i arrived, i tested it out. it sounded ok. there were some problems but with my intermediate knowledge of electronics i set out to turn this into a musical instrument. it was just a matter of repairing dead modules and replacing some parts that were essential to the quality of the audio they generate. indeed i turned it into a viable musical instrument.

you can hear it, being used live, at www.musicofsoftware.com in the sounds and the video section. all of the sequences are the paia modular through an eq and delay, that is in the video clips that have the modular being used.

so after i was able to make this into a musical instrument, and indeed people in the know were amazed at how good it sounded because they, like you, heard that paia stuff didnt sound very good. well in fact, thats not true.

in terms of circuit design they are not too bad. i wouldnt say as cheap as possible. certainly cost effective. my paia is as stable as my minimoog.

so check out the video clips and hear it for yourself.

after that i decided i wanted to collect these and restore them. so i began doing that. but now its time to liquidate part of the collection to help pay for a dsi polyevolver. i will keep a few paia 4700 cabinets and continue to use them in the studio and live."

Update: More shots on Music of Plexus

Mike's Synths

Nice shot sent in by Mike Walters of Mystery Circuits. Also check out these previous posts featuring Mike and Mystery Circuits.

Update: The knob box on the top left is Mike's custom cased version of Ray Wilson's Sound Lab Mini-Synth

Stylinghead

flickr by stylinghead.

"setup with some elektron gear, emx-1 and an mab-303 and the lovely new kp3"

Title link takes you to more.

Roland Paraphonic 505

Title link takes you to shots pulled via Roland Paraphonic 505.

Details:
"The 505 is a string machine with built-in synthesizer and bass section, with very rich ensemble chorus which gives it a very unique sound."

Zebranalogic on SoNiCbRaT

Title link takes you to the post on SoNiCbRat including more shots, info and a demo track.

Nord Electro on Synthwire

Title link takes you to the post by Carbon111.

Turnkey Vintage Synthesizer Sale

Moog System 1 custom 55/35 modular 3C - £25,000

The ultimate modular synthesizer. Originally conceived by Dr Robert A. Moog in the mid sixties as a less bulky, more affordable alternative to the famous experimental RCA Mark 2 (which filled several rooms), it became the instrument that made synthesized music popular, especially thanks to Walter Carlos' album "Switched On Bach", a massive hit in 1968. Other artists, like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Emerson, Lake & Palmer also explored the possibilities of the Moog in mainstream music and even used it for live performances. But the modular systems were generally too complex and expensive for most musicians, designed as they were for studio composition of electronic music, and Moog went on to produce more performance oriented instruments such as the brilliant Minimoog.


System 1 consists of 2 cabinets.

Cabinet 1
# 2 x 921A Oscillator Driver
# 4 x 921B Oscillator
# 923 Filter/Noise Module - Low Pass, High Pass and White/Pink Noise Source
# 2 x CP3A Mixer Module - 4 inputs with volume pots, 2 Multiples, 2 outputs with master gain pot, 2 Trunks and 2 Multiples, 992 Controls to Oscillators
# 907A Fixed Filter Bank
# 904B Voltage Controlled High Pass Filter
# 904A Voltage Controlled Low Pass Filter
# 3 x 902 Voltage Controlled Amplifier
# 3 x 911 Envelope Generator

Cabinet 2
# 914 Fixed Filter Bank
# 904B Voltage Controlled High Pass Filter
# 904A Voltage Controlled Low Pass Filter
# 992 Control Voltages Module
# 5 x 902 Voltage Controlled Amplifier
# 5 x 911 Envelope Generator
# 911A Dual Trigger Delay
# 993 Trigger and Envelope Voltages Module
# Measurements: 1230 (L) x 240 (D) x 250 (H) mm

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Synthesized Heart [Draft]

"This is part of an artwork made for a poster of a party that will take place in Sofia on December 16th. That synthesizer really made me sweat."

flickr by NeverB4Breakfast

Update: here's the flyer: link

Admiring Morpheus

flickr by pozdno

Title link takes you to a few more shots featuring:
Korg Microkorg
E-MU Morpheus
Korg N5ex