E-Mu SP1200

images via this auction

"The SP-1200 was THE drum machine & sampler combo of legendary status among old school rap and hip hop artists from the eighties and nineties. It is similar to today's Akai MPC samplers - it is a sampler plus drum machine. It has limited sampling specs: 22 kHz and 12-bit resolution. However the dirtiness of that sound is great for hip hop and house music. They say it sounds like "old vinyl"... It features groove quantizing and a disk drive for sample storage. As an upgraded version of the 1985 SP-12, the SP-1200 focused on its coolest feature - sampling. The preset drum sounds of the SP-12 were omitted, leaving room for up to 32 user samples of your own custom sampled and edited drum sounds.

Although this machine was originally released in 1988, E-mu has reissued them again and again due to popular demand. They continued producing them until they ran out of the SSM filter chips they used, around 1998. It was just too legendary to give up as it was THE beat machine for old-school rap and hip hop! Pictured above is the final reissued version in 1997 with the cooler looking all-black case. With the SP-1200 it's easy and fun to grab those sliders and tune or tweak your sampled drum sounds all around!

Specifications
Polyphony - 8 voice
Sampler - 4 2.5 second blocks (10 seconds)
SPECS - 256 KB memory
22KHz 12 bit sampling
Patterns - 100
Songs - 100
Keyboard - 8 Touch Pads
Memory - 32 patches
Control - MIDI, SMPTE"

Waldor Blofeld to Have XT and Q Wave Tables

via sequencer.de

"Blofeld will have all Waldorf MicrowaveXTk, MicrowaveXT Wavetables on board plus those of the Waldorf microQ / Waldorf Q. The first batch of blofelds are ready to sell and will be available very s.o.o.n (in about 1 week). It will come for 399€ over here in europe."

MOOG Pedals

images via brian c.

The single pedal is 12" x 4"

AnalogLive! Photo Set

"It was an amazing night, as a packed house of 250 plus applauded Alessandro Cortini, Richard Devine, Thighpaulsandra, Gary Chang, Chas Smith,Paul Tzanetopoulos and Peter Grenader as they twisted sound and sight alike at the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles. Click here for the first flickr images taken from the final rehearsal and the performance itself and check back in the next few days as more are added." Previous posts on Analog Live!

Update: be sure to check out the comments in this post for some details on the show.
Update: More images via Anateur Chemist here.

Sovtek 7474 IC - Oct 1988

Anyone know what this is? A reader, Steve, sent this in hoping someone could identify it.

MIKE HUCKABY - My Life With The Wave

"Another top-tier dub techno submission from the inimitable Mike Huckaby, and another priceless offering from his perfectly formed SYNTH imprint. You can sort of guess what you're going to get here - next level Deepchord meets Chain Reaction reductions with the kind of padded propulsion that Huckaby has made his own. The title alludes to the Waldorf Wave with which Huckaby produced these three tracks, opening with "Wavetable No.9", a crushing companion to the recent Scion Versions transmission from Scion and Vainqueur. "Fantasy" on the flip revolves around a House based template and with a deeply padded square bassline manages to sound like Theo Parrish battling it out with Rod Modell - and you just know how that pushes all the right buttons for us. "Jupiter" ends the set with a more shimmering techno variation, the sort of thing that Convextion has been producing of late, airy, breezy and BASS dominated 4/4 of the finest kind. Highly Recommended - Limited copies."

click here for tracks.

via Mr. Array

Hall & Oates - Maneater

YouTube via ziggig1. Sent my way via ben shannon.
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

Magic Bus

YouTube via robotpickle.
"-Two Oberheim Matrix 1000s
-Akai Ax80
-Alpha Juno 1
-Access Classic Virus
-CR-78 CompuRhythm
-Roland R8
-Arturia Arp2600 (soft synth)
-Fxpansion Guru (soft drum machine/sampler, very very cool)

The video, in case you're wondering, is a public domain film called "America for Me." It was a commercial for Grey Hound buses."

Fairlight Xynergi's revolutionary new paradigm -- Xplain!

YouTube via cyber4nic.

"Visit http://www.fairlightau.com/ for more information. Watch a demo about "Xplain" showing you the online help system built right into the Xynergi Tactile Controller which lets you "see into" the buttons on its surface. You don't have to stop working to use the Xplain system. Quickly dip in and out of it without waiting for screens to load, and without searching through lists of topics to find what you need."

Doepfer Eurorack Modular Demo: plan b, livewire, harvestman

YouTube via hexfix93.
"Velvet Acid Christ messing around in the studio tweaking the heck out of their modular that is being driven by the jomox xbase 09 drum machine."