Contradiction

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MKS80 Service Note via Mike Peake

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PAiA Oz

via this auction

"The Oz was sold by PAiA back in the mid 80s. it takes 8AAs"

via brian comnes

PAiA Gnome

via this auction

"This is a little synth from PAiA back in the mid 80s. The Gnome uses 2 9v batteries."

via brian comnes

PAiA Programmable Drum Set

via this auction

"he sound of the drums was nowhere near what current units deliver, but remember, this was somewhere in the mid-80s. It takes 4AA and 1 9v battery (this was before the learned about energy efficiency)."

via brian comnes

PAiA Synthspin MK-II

via this auction

"The idea behind this device was to give a Leslie effect to your guitar (or whatever). You're not gonna fool anyone into thinking you've got a Leslie hidden behind the curtain, but it does work and gives a swirling effect."

via brian comnes

PAiA Phlanger

via this auction

This is an AC-powered flanger.

via brian comnes

Appliancide

via Appliancide

"I just put up a new track on my myspace page. It's one pass on my 2 suitcase eurorack modular. No external sequencing or sounds. I just made the track stereo and added a little compression in an audio editor. It's the first track on my page (myspace.com/appliancide) very aptly named '2 minutes too long'."

MMM 4X-1X2 Buffer

Mattson Mini Modular 4X-1X2 Buffer
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KORG OASYS OS 1.3 Details and Samples

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Samples [Scroll to bottom when you get there]

Details via KORG (there's a flash demo and more on site as well):
"Korg is pleased to announce the release of system version 1.3 for Korg's flagship OASYS synthesizer, delivering the next level of the sound-creating and performance potential of this acclaimed instrument. In addition to new features and enhancements, version 1.3 includes a new version of KARMA (2.1), and makes available two more optional expansions: the MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM Synthesizer, and the EXs-3 Brass & Woodwinds Expansion sample library.

Main features
- The new EXi MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM synthesizer takes a classic form of synthesis into new and uncharted territories. A demo version is included in OASYS system version 1.3.

- KARMA 2.1 adds support for User GEs, selectable quantization for Scene changes and Module triggering, enhancements to the Note Map feature, and many other new functions.

- The optional new EXs-3 Brass & Woodwinds Expansion Sample Library, available separately, provides over 700 Mbytes of expressive, natural-sounding brass and woodwind instruments.

- EXs expansion sample sets can now be loaded and unloaded immediately in OASYS memory, without restarting the OASYS, a great time-saver!

- EXs-1 and 2 are now loaded into RAM using a new, lossless compression technique. This yields a modest reduction in size: EXs-1 now uses 284 MB instead of 313 MB, and EXs-2 uses 464 MB instead of 503 MB. With 2 GB installed and both EXs loaded, this increases the available user sampling RAM by about 68 MB. You’ll notice that this is much milder than the dramatic size reductions of mp3, or the PCM compression sometimes found in other synthesizers. There is a strong advantage over these other methods, however: the OASYS compression is completely lossless, and causes absolutely no degradation in audio quality whatsoever.

Note: This compression applies only to EXs samples, and not to RAM samples.

- Each EXi in a dual Program can be transposed separately for greater sonic flexibility.

- All Step Sequencers now provide separate "smoothing" parameters for attack and decay, allowing you to create more complex tonal changes.

- In Sequencer mode, a play button has been added to MIDI Event Edit, allowing you to play back the currently-edited measure while keeping the dialog box open.

- Other improvements and enhancements have been made to the operation of and stability of the Operating System.

OASYS software version 1.3 will be available in October 2007, as a free download from www.korguser.net. EXs-3 is expected to be available in mid-November."