CORON DS7 Drum Synce Clone

"The DS7 Drum Synce (DC860) is a little analog percussion synthesizer from the 80's made by CORON. This drumsynth was dedicaced to drummers : the DS7 was fixed on the border of a drum to be played/triggered by hitting the drum.

The DS7 contain a VCO +VCA chain. The VCO is modulated by a cheesy LFO and a simple decay envelope trigged by the piezzo cell pulse. The cell work as a pressure/hit sensor. It can be replaced by a jack to be used with any kind of trigg pulses or even gates. In this case the "decay" pot become a "Release" pot ... The VCA is directly controled by the envelope. The LFO can drive the VCO from slow modulation to hi-speed to produce FM like sounds." click here for more.

Moog 904a LPF Noise Test

flickr by mpeake

"An extremely quiet filter."

click here for more via Mike Peak

KORG MS50 Schematics via Mike Peake

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Oberheim FVS-1 SEM Expansion

via this auction via the comments of this post.
"this FVS-1 is the expansion for the Oberheim 4-voice synthesizer, adding 4 extra SEM modules and an extra output module to it and thus letting you enjoy an 8-voice Oberheim synthesizer"

What The Future Sounded Like.

You might remember this post. Well, it looks like it will finally air on ABC, this coming Tuesday, the 18th of September at 10pm. Title link takes you to more info including images and video. EMS.

Update: Word is this is ABC Australia only. Unfortunate for the rest of us...

Metasonix M-1000

Title link takes you to more images and info on Muff Wiggler.

Buchla 207

via this auction

This one is being auctioned off by Ezra Buchla, Don Buchla's son.

"This is a Buchla model 207 mixer and preamplifier from the 200 series, made sometime in the early 1970's. It is quite rare and consists of all original components.

The mixer section includes 6 input channels, 4 of which have manual control over location, and two of which have voltage control of location. This section also includes a third, independently switchable mono output bus.

The pre-amplifier section has a single 1/4" input, three switchable gain/impedance settings and a potentiometer for finer gain control."

Synth Pics via Marko of Retrosound.de

Dr Bohm Hobbytron
ARP Odyssey
MOOG Taurus

retrosound.de

Regarding the Hobbytron:
"this is a very rare self-built stylophone by the german Dr. Boehm organ factory. The sound is different to the original stylophone."

71 - endoplasm 'gasm

YouTube via atishmeh. Via atish.net (check out the site for more).
"Jazzy Snazzy And Gazm-y"

Simmons SDS-2 Prototype?

"The missing link between the original Dave Simmons SDS prototype (which from what I've found is no longer in existence) and the somewhat successful SDS-III is the SDS-2. Like the original SDS it was just a prototype designed from spare parts and electronics lying around the workshop. In Bob Henrit's famous book about the Simmons history ("The Complete Simmons Drum Book") the only mention is a few lines on page 8. For decades people seem to have guessed that this old piece of gear was lost in the mist of time too until it suddenly surfaced on german Ebay and I managed to bring it to Sweden at a bargain price in September 2003."

You can find the rest of the story including more images and sound clips on Studio Sting. via jesper.

Update: jesper wrote in to say this might not be the SDS-2 prototype after all. If you know feel free to comment.