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Boadicea Enya

YouTube via farnellraptor. Sent my way via Stephen. Roland Juno-60

Shot of the inside of a MOOG Prodigy sent my way via Jason.

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Museum Technicians - The Underground Series 11/14

YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Well, you can jolly well smack my bitch up, because we've reached episode 11 at long last, wherein we, Mssrs Cornwell and Braidy, bring the elements of our track together into a storming mix which will act as a proper narnie magnet and generally win us ultimate producer propz."

Octave Plateau Vids

Octave Plateau Cat Family -5

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Depech Mode's Puppets by Micah

"In my attempt to get somewhat closer to the arp 2600 sound, I layered the Juno and the Jupiter together for this version of Depeche Mode's Puppets. The juno in my opinion sounds way closer to an american synth then the the Jupiter, but put together you have a synth of a different sort. The drums were done using the juno for the bass drum, and and old korg drum machine sample for the snare. I love that low big sound. This sounds nothing like the orignial puppets but I was just messing around."

Pretty cool. Title link takes you to more by Micah.

Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Note the Roland on the strap.

Formanta EMS-01

Click here for shots via this auction.

Details:
FORMANTA EMS-01 is an electric music instrument combining a polyphonic organ and a monophonic synthesizer. It is designed to perform music of all genres and to create various sound effects while recording soundtracks for movies and plays, or studio recording. The organ has a 5-octave keyboard, 6 preset sound timbres, frequency vibrato with adjustable vibrato delay, decay adjustment and a stereophaser (common for organ and synthesizer). The "vibrato delay" scheme is activated again only after all the previously pressed keys are released. In the "legato" mode the "vibrato delay" scheme is not activated.

The synthesizer has:

3-octave keyboard;
modulator, modulation voltage from which is applied to frequency modulator, width modulator, filter, and amplifier;
broad band oscillators 1 and 2 (with various waveforms);
mixer, designed for summation of signals from oscillators 1 and 2, noise generator, external source, and ring modulator;
filter, designed for dynamic and static changing of the spectrum of summarized signal from mixer output;
amplifier, designed for making the sound corresponding to various parameters of the envelope;
Visual division of the synthesizer panel into the above listed sections and their lay-out make it more easy to orientate oneself while setting the required timbre. Besides, the synthesizer is able to simultaneously control one more similar synthesizer through a special cable and connectors CONTR IN and CONTR OUT.

The instrument provides the opportunity of connecting stereo headphones; the volume in headphones doesn't change in case of changing the volume of the instrument from zero to maximum at all the outputs of the instrument with the foot pedal; thanks to this, preliminary control of timbre through the headphones before applying it to amplifiers is possible. By switching on PHASER into the channel of organ or synthesizer, it is possible to get stereo sound in the outputs STEREO L and STEREO P. In case PHASER is switched off, both channels will function in MONO mode.

Specifications:
Supply voltage AC 220+10V, 50 Hz;
Power consumption within 75 VA;
Operating conditions: temperature 15-35 C, humidity 65%, barometric pressure 86,6 - 106,6 kPa;
Relative frequency deviation after 4 hours of uninterrupted operation within 0,5%;
5-octave organ keyboard;
Organ band from 43,65 Hz (F controctave) to 1318 Hz (E in three-line octave);
3-octave synthesizer keyboard;
Sound range - 9 octaves;
Adjustment range for organ and synthesizer + 6% (+ 0,5 tone);
Minimal range of continuous detuning of oscillator 2 regarding oscillator 1 - 1 octave;
Range of adjustment of filter cutoff frequency 100- 1500 Hz;
Minimal dynamic range - 55 dB;
Weight within 30 kg.
Sound1
Sound2
Sound3"

Samples mirrored here.

PaD - 06-05-2007

flickr by natemc.

Korg MicroKorg

My 263 prototypes

flickr by verbos2002.

"This is my new creation. The 263 quantizer / shift register. It is a dual 4 stage analog shift register and an 8 channel chromatic quantizer for Buchla systems. The switch in the middle chains to 2 shift registers together for one 8 stage one. These will be available for sale soon, when I get all the bugs out."