Vermona Perfourmer

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Note the colored knobs.

"Vermona Perfourmer with CV gate inputs / Midi in and out and the optional wood sides. Also included is a good stack of "preset" overlay sheets so you can mark your settings, copy of the User Manual, product flyer and the power cable.

This is literally 4 seperate monosynths that can either be tied together in Unison for a HUGE monosynth sound, a 2x2 duo polophony mode and also a 1 x 4 polophony mode. I used it in 1 x 4 mode, hooked up to a sequencer with each synth on a seperate Midi channel for 4 seperate music tracks. Super easy to use (NO MENUS TO FLIP THROUGH)

The PERFOURMER is a true analog synthesizer, providing a nearly unlimited diversity of basses, leads, pads and effect sounds through its incredibly flexible sound generation circuitry and its easy user interface.
In addition, the PERFOURMER can be used as a complex filterbank with its 6 filter inputs!
Even though the PERFOURMER is not a modular system, you can configure its structure as a semi-modular. The basic concept is reminiscent of classic synthesizers like the Oberheim 4-Voice or the Korg MONO/POLY.
The PERFOURMER consists of four voices. Each of them is a completely separate synthesizer which can be played and tweaked individually . You can link the synthesizer channels in any combination with each other and play them in three modes.

Synthesizer Channels
The PERFOURMER's four synthesizer channels are identical and have the following structure:
- One VCO with six waveforms, which are divided into two different octaves and a noise generator which produces white noise. The pitch can be adjusted smoothly in a range of +/- 13 halftones.
- A 4-pole lowpass filter with resonance and variable keytrack.
- A fast ADSR envelope that can modulate the VCA and VCF.
- An LFO with four waveforms which modulates the VCO frequency and the CUTOFF frequency, as well as the VCA.
- One VCA that can be modulated by the ADSR envelope, a fixed GATE envelope or the LFO.
FM
The synthesizer channels 1 to 3 can function as modulator for their neighbouring synthesizer channel. For example, synthesizer 1 can modulate the VCO frequency and the CUTOFF frequency of synthesizer 2. Or synthesizer 2 can modulate synthesizer 3, etc.
The modulation intensity can be adjusted separately for VCO and VCF.
MODES
All four synthesizer channels can be linked in arbitrary fashion and can be used in one of the following three modes:
- UNISON: All combined channels work as one monophonic synthesizer.
- DUOPHONIC: This mode separates the PERFOURMER into a two-voice synthesizer. Synthesizer 1 and 2 are voice no. one and synthesizer 3 and 4 work as voice no. two.
- POLYPHONIC: All combined channels work as a polyphonic synth.

Depending on the selected mode and in which way the synthesizer channels are combined, the PERFOURMER can be used as a fat monophonic synthesizer with 4 oscillators, 4 filters, 4 VCAs, etc., but also as a two, three, or four voice polyphonic synthesizer.
All synthesizer channels, that aren't combined with any other, work as simple monophonic synthesizers.

PERFOURMER as a filterbank
The PERFOURMER has six filter inputs.
There is one filter input per channel. The input signal will be added to the oscillator's signal of the respective channel.
On the rear panel of the PERFOURMER are two more inputs that are routed in parallel to all four synthesizer channels and which can be used alternatively to the oscillators' signal.
The CUTOFF frequencies of the single synthesizer channels can be controlled by MIDI.

Connecting Features
As well as the filter inputs, there are individual outputs per channel that can also be used as a channel insert. It's easy to connect the PERFOURMER to other equipment! It's also possible to tap the unprocessed VCO signal from each synth channel.
You can increase the sonic possibilities of the PERFOURMER by "internal patching" between the channels. For example, you can create a synthesizer that consists of two PERFOURMER channels with two envelope generators and LFOs. It's also possible to double the slope of the filters by connecting two of them in a row.
The PERFOURMER can be controlled by MIDI, and optionally can be equipped with four CV/GATE inputs (1V/octave)."

KORG X-911 Guitar Synth

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Moog Minimoog Voyager - Select Series

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"This is the Minimoog Voyager Select series synthesizer. The select series allows you to choose your combination of lights/wood case. It is also the most expensive version of the synth, at $3195 wherever you go. Personally I think this is the most tasteful combination, with the classic Minimoog ash case and the sweet blue backlighting."

I'm not seeing ash in the images and I forget the "Select Series." Anyone remember this?

MOOG Voyager Signature Edition with Modwheel LFO Mod

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"The signature edition is a collector's item due to Bob Moog's signature of only 600 made. This one is in absolutely mint condition with version 2.5 software and looks just as it did the day I first took it out of the box. It has that awesome Moog sound and is a joy to play and one can spend hours with this thing creating most any sound you can think of...if you are reading this then you already know what it is capable of. I am the original owner and was one of the first 172 to submit my order when Moog first released to the press that they were building 600 of these. I quickly placed my order and this is serial #172 with the cherry wood cabinet. This particular voyager is unique in a way that it has the mod wheel flashing in sync with the LFO rate. I had Moog do this modification after I thought of the idea thinking it would be a cool looking effect to have the mod wheel flash in relation to whatever rate the LFO is set. It is an amazing looking effect watching the blue-lit Mod wheel glowing on and off slowly in the dark or flashing rapidly depending on how the rate speed is set. This is the only known voyager in existence that has this unique feature."

Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

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Roland Jupiter-6

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Click the image for the full size shot. For those that care, there is an interesting "Guitar Babe" shot in the auction (no synth, no post, so I didn't grab it).

Oberheim SEM 4-voice Synth Power Supply

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"Looks like the switch was cut off (see picture) and someone removed the sticker. "

SIEL Owners Manuals

Two shot via two auctions:

Siel Expander 80
Siel DK70

Alesis Andromeda Mix Maker

"The Alesis A6 Andromeda is without any doubt the most powerful and flexible analog polysynth ever made. But all that power and flexibility comes at a price: complexity. The sheer number of patch parameters is almost overwhelming yet most can be easily controlled with all those knobs and switches.

But it's quite a different story for multi-timbral Mix setups. The A6 display is more than adequate for most tasks but using it to set up a Mix can be awkward, tedious and quite error-prone. Mix Maker was designed to make that process a lot easier and user-friendly by providing a familiar and intuitive mixing desk interface to those 'hidden' Mix parameters." [link]

ANDROMIZER 1.2

Random patch generator for the Alesis Andromeda A6.

"Tired of your A6 always sounding the same? (Yeah right ;-)

ANDROMIZE it!



ANDROMIZER is a utility designed to screw up your Alesis Andromeda's current program edit buffer. Utterly, completely, and irretrievably.

ANDROMIZER sends series of MIDI sysex messages to your A6, automatically changing lots of program parameters to random values. The result can be stored in patch memory or tweaked until doomsday and then stored, or even discarded on the fly.

What to expect?
Your instant, self-running, aleatoric chaos patch will not appear just using a randomizer. Remember that the only thing this tool does, is: to give a host of parameters totally random values. Most often, after a complete run of ANDROMIZER, what you will hear is complete silence, because most combinations of parameter values in a system like this just do not make sense. I have tried to reduce the number of useless configurations... but not too much, since such a selection process necessarily means applying personal taste. Be prepared to spend a lot of time tweaking, trying to figure out why the bloody thing sounds like it does (or does not make any sound at all), and how to make it sound more to your liking...

How to use it?
In all the ways it wasn't designed for, how else? :-) Seriously, I could tell you how I've used it successfully to create some remarkable sounds, but that wouldn't be much fun, would it? The only advice I will share: be selective about which modules to randomize. Not all of them are equally useful. And don't forget you can use the Normalize button to (wholly or partly) initialize your patch to default values."

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