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Monday, April 30, 2007

Crumar Spirit

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via this auction

Details:

"Only about 100 of these made which makes this a very rare find. This keyboard have been compared to the top analog keyboards on the market. The Crumar Spirit was originally designed by Bob Moog (himself), Jim Scott & Tom Rhea and released back in 1983. It is a full featured analog monophonic synthesizer with 2 VCO's so it's got a pretty fat tone, but not as much as the classic 3-VCO Minimoog. However it is considerably more flexible than the latter. It has a basic 37-note keyboard without velocity or aftertouch. The two oscillators feature basic sawtooth, triangle and square waves and can be synced together. The filter section is very nice featuring low-, high- and band-pass filters and switchable 12dB or 24dB slopes. Other features of the filter include an independent envelope with inverted and normal ADSR, key tracking and single or multiple triggering of the filter. Some other features of the Spirit include a built-in ring-modulator, an Arpeggiator with 3 different patterns and that can be linked to the LFO, and there's an external audio input for running external sounds through its filters, LFOs or Ring Mod. For the hands-on approach, the Spirit is sure to please. There are 24 knobs, 10 switches and 15 sliders to start. There are 3 performance wheels for controlling the Pitch, Mod-X and Shaper-Y modulation effects (see LFO specs below). Using those with the Arpeggiator can get pretty wild. The Arpeggiator features 3 modes: Ripple (Up/Down), Arpeggio (Up several octaves) and Leap (Goes up 1 and then 4 octaves). There are also Auto and preset Glide modes for getting some elasticity or bending effects. Since all the LFOs, envelopes and filters are quite flexible you are sure to get some weird noises, fat basses, synths, etc. with the Spirit."

Octave the CAT

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Next! Spacebass 3.3 Analog Bass Synth

Title link takes you to a couple more shots via this auction.

I'm curious how many TB-303 clones there were. Feel free to comment on the ones you know.

ARP 1613 Analog Sequencer

via this auction.

16-step or 2x8-step sequencer.

More details at Audio Playground

Wine Country Certificate of Restoration - Prophet 2000

Title link takes you to more shots via this auction.

Wine Country Productions are ex Sequential Circuits. They repair and sell Sequential Circuit Synths.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Ludwig Synthesizer Phase II Advert

via this auction.

keybdwizrd - Moog Little Phatty Demo #1


YouTube via keybdwizrd. Sent my way via Zack M.

Rohrengrab Tube Based Synth?

Anyone know what this is? Via these two auctions: 1, 2.

Details:
"the first of three big cabinets that obviously belong together
maybe early tube synthesizer
measures 50 x 70 x 25 cm

top left 4 tubes are missing, to the right there is a part missing
see picture from the second cabinet in other auction
nothing known of except that old, heavy and big
best to pick up at my place but can be shipped of course
with this unit comes the foot controller, that belongs to the cabinets"

via Johan

KORG 900PS


via this auction

via Johan

Turtle Island ( Mike Oldfield ) - TR3S LUNAS cover


YouTube via YammyMotif.

"All instruments played in real time, except drums, which are sequenced. Sax sound comes from breath controller located in my mouth, providing an incredible real sax sound." Sax comes in 1:42 into it.

via the comments of this post: "I've just created a video with BC3A controller."
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