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Synth Testbench

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"It's a monophonic, monotambric (same note every time) sound module, employing not a VCO but an ACB (air-controlled blister). I don't see any inputs or outputs on it, but I'm sure we'll figure out a way to sample it eventually. It's not technically a synthesizer, since it creats not artificial, but only natural sounds. But I strongly believe that when in the right hands (or paws), it shall prove to be a surprisingly expressive instrument."

FreqBox vs Access Virus

YouTube via Analogger.
"I used my EMG equipped Strat thru a Vox distortion into the Moogerfooger FreqBox into the external in of an Access Virus. I wrote a rhythmic pattern into my sequencer which gated the Virus. That same pattern was also converted into control voltages with my MPU-101 which modulated the frequency of the FreqBox oscillator. The osc. was synced to my guitar pitch. I also wrote a basic 8-bar pattern for the sampled drums on the SH-32. I included a snippet of video of my brother-in-law and I setting off a Blockbuster in a ditch. That's my wife screaming "He's so insane!!!" I really can't argue with her."

Fade to grey-Visage and Gazdatronik

YouTube via Gazdatronik

"I play Visage's Fade to grey somehow. Micromoog on Bass, Korg DW-8000 on strings, Oberhiem matrix 6 on the high part, and Emulator SP-12 on drums. I'll clean up the production and re-record it and put it up at my other site"

Roland JD-800 Digital Synthesizer - Pad Sounds (part2)

YouTube via retrosound72. Follow up to this video.
"more vangelis like sounds from the Roland JD-800 Digital Synthesizer
more info: www.retrosound.de"

Vintage 1972 PAiA Modules

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Modules include:
2720-14 - a Sine Converter/Pulse Width Modulator
2720-12 - an Inverter-Buffer
2720-11 - an Envelope Follower
2720-7 - a Power Supply
2720-5 - a Control Oscillator
2720-4 - a Function Generator
2720-3L - a Low Pass Filter
2720-3B - a Bandpass Filter
2720-2 - a Voltage Control Oscillator
2720-1 - a Voltage Control Amplifier

EOWave Persephone

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Roland MC-202

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"The modification that was done gives control voltage inputs for
1. Slide
2. CV
3. Gate
4. VCF (filter cutoff)
It also gives an additional output of the PWM waveform.
The original CV ins and outs all work also. The new CV/Gate input is better than the original (there is a lag on all the original 202s) I think most people would prefer to use external controls as the internal sequencer requires thought and time to program. However the internal sequencer affords special results with the use of accents and slides.

While the MC-202 is often compared to the TB-303, I think the sound and filters are closer to the SH-101. When the resonance is set very high the machine becomes very acid. It synchonized via din sync.

There are two wave forms Square (with PWM) and Saw. There is also a square Sub Oscillator that can be shifted one octave down, two octaves down, or down two octaves with PWM.

The MC-202 is obviously a great bass line synthesizer. The Sub can be absolutely devastating. "Watch the bass bins...." The MC-202 also excels in making acid. The combination of solid bass, acid sequencing, and filters that take on a life of their own when you krank the resonance, makes for acid bass lines or great sqeeky acid effects. The MC-202 also makes very nice strings sounds and woodwind sounds."

Elektron Sidstation

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"Elektron laser-etched numbers into the last 200 Sid Stations that they made. This one is laser etched with the number 14. So, it was the 14th to last one ever made!"

Or is it the 187th to the last made?