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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The Juno Brothers

image via marko of retrosound.de.

Roland Juno-106
Roland Juno-60

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Moog trilogy

image sent my way via marko of retrosound.de.

MOOG Minimoog
MOOG Prodigy
MOOG Taurus Synthesizer

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Vp-330 Vocoder Plus mk2

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AH Bay Area 2007 via Peter

Title link takes you to shots of this years AH Bay Area 2007 sent in via Peter.

G-Red Grime Music Mix Live Mashup


YouTube via shotmillions.
"Novation A Station Ensoniq ASR X PRO Computer... Live grime music..."

KORG Radias

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Kawai K3


via this auction

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"The K3 is a wavetable synthesizer [not exactly - it's a digital additive synth with analog filters]. It has 32 waveforms, some of which are samples of acoustic instruments like piano and percussion as well as some unique waveforms. By combining two of these waveforms you can create unique new sounds or add a twist to a traditional sound. Since there are only 32 of these waveforms, the K3 also features a programmable digital waveform where you can tweak the harmonic content of a waveform allowing for added flexibility and range of sounds.

What's really neat about the K3 is that (unlike the K1) it has analog filters and envelopes! So although the sound may be digital at first, it sure does get warmed going through the filter. The low pass resonant filter even has its own envelope generator. There's also a hi pass filter and a highly flexible LFO. The K3 is an interesting synth, nicely bridging the gap between the analog and digital domain of vintage synthesizers.

Here's a video of this synth in action"

Yamaha CS01

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"It's monophonic 1 VCO synth with extra sub VCO, both of them make sounds very fat for this little keyabord, especially if You put right wave type and make little detune. She has 5 wave forms and pretty good range 32-16-8-4."

Note: there is no extra sub osc.

Yamaha SK30

via this auction.

"Its strength is its drawbar hammond sound. It has 7-note polyphony and, like a real Hammond organ, nine variable drawbars (16, 8, 5 1/3, 4, 2 2/3, 2, 1 3/5, 1 1/3, 1). It also has variable percussive 2nd, 3rd, and 5th, with variable delay and sustain. The tremolo effect imitates a leslie rotary, with slow and fast speeds, and slow acceleration between the speeds. The ensemble effect is a rich chorus that makes the harmonics full, round, and rich.

I hastily and sloppily recorded some short audio demo snippets tonight which you can hear at:
gliss_ensemble.mp3
adding_16_8_5_4_2_1_with_tremolo.mp3
removing_8_5_4_2_2.mp3

It also has a monophonic solo section with a 3-octave keyboard range, but switchable to cover a total of 8 octaves with waveforms varying from sawtooth to square with modulateable pulse width and single lowpass filter with variable resonance and EG and/or LFO modulation.

An equally as hasty and sloppy and inadequate-to-fully-demonstrate audio snippet exists: boppling_solo_section.mp3

It also has a string section and poly synth section but they are not that impressive compared to its hammond sound. There are independent mono audio outputs for organ, polysynth, and solo sections, as well as a single mono output for a mixed output (all three)."

nords

flickr by pac209.

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nord rack 2 and nord modular rack
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