MATRIXSYNTH

KORG Electribe A and R

YouTube via Denkitribe.
"Practicing improvisation... no pre-recorded sequences."

Crumar Orchestrator

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Click the images for a bigger shot. Note the glass/plastic buttons under the main control panel in the second shot.

Desktop Synths

flickr by Head into music.

Title link takes you to a more shots of desktop synths.

YouTube via STAKKERHUMANOID. via Sendling.
"the visuals you are watching were created using just a casio sk1 and eddi (electronic devices digital interface) an output was taken from eddi and fed to a visual mixer where only the contrast and chroma were increased - no other effect has been applied for more info http://www.glitch.tv to purchase eddi http://www.fsoldigital.com this product was created by glitch.tv somerset uk for FSOLDIGITAL.CO"

Portable Nuclear Suitcase

via Muff Wiggler on this electro-music thread (3 more shots after the link).

RS7000 Acid House

YouTube via darenager.
"Rough mix of a track I am currently working on, it is just me muting tracks in and out on the RS7000 in realtime.

The track was written as a retrospective to the sounds I used to dance to at parties in my youth from 1987-1989. It takes influence from artists such as Mr Fingers, Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson and other great early house and acid house producers. There are no samples from other records but there is a couple of 303 loops and an 808 sample from my machines.

Hope you enjoy it."

Awesome stuff. I remember going to raves during this time in LA. Good times.

MOOG Micromoog

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"To download a copy of the Moog Micromoog User Guide:
1) Right-Click on the link below
2) Choose “Save Target As...”
3) Choose your destination folder
4) Click “Save”
Moog Micromoog User Guide - 13.3MB (pdf file)"

Octave CAT

via this auction.

Details:
The original CAT Synthesizer was released in 1975 when the company now called Voyetra Turtle Beach, INC was called Octave Electronics. The second version called the CAT SRM (for "Series Revised Model"), was released in 1977, followed by the SRM2 in 1980. By that time the company had merged with Plateau Electronics and the company name changed to Octave-Plateau Electronics,Inc.

The Cat analog synthesis design served as the basis for the Voyetra Eight Synthesizer released in 1982. The Voyetra Eight's rich sound was utilized by such artists as Edgar Winter, Bon Jovi, The Eurythmic, Stevie Wonder and many other famous artists of the early 1980's. A copy of the first literature for the Voyetra Eight is included with the CAT instruction manual.

This CAT SRM 2 was the last of 100 units manufactured in 1981. These units were stored in a warehouse for 20 years and were intended for distrubution on the 25th anniversary of the CAT debut. As such this is a "Collector's Edition" CAT Synthesizer representing the art of analog music synthesis in the days before MIDI, programmability and digital synthesis."

Roland SH-05

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Bell Labs Speech Synthesis

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Details:

"This complete and unused kit contains everything you need to understand speech synthesis and build your own synthesiser. Produced by Bell Systems Laboratories in 1963, the kit contains all the original equipment and parts which includes the book with complete instructions. The kit is complete and has never been used. It was intended for high school and college students and not for young children. This is an excellent source for hands on learning. When Bell Labs made something, they made it extremely well."

Update via Pete in the comments:
Bell Labs Speech Synthesis site
Kits still available here

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