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I have to get me a chair like that for my MicroKorg.

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Electronic Music Box #4

via this auction. via Tony

"The Electronic Music box is a hand built, custom designed, small format, one of a kind, modular analog electronic instrment. The design is inspired by classic Buchla and Serge modular synth systems.

Listen to it here:
Make Noise

The enclosure is reclaimed medical surplus.

The interface is entirely modular and analog and uses mini banana cables (supplied) for signal distribution. The size is 5"x7"x3"

The unit can run from a signle 9 Volt transistor battery or a 9 Volt wall transformer (supplied).

This instrument consist of the following sub-modules:

1 Clocked LFO Bank. A master clock drives a bank of 5 LFOs all of which are rythmic divisions of the master clock. The LFOs are arranged slowest to fastest (left to right) with the slowest capable of 3 minute cycles and the fastest going well into audio range (for sideband). Each LFO has it's own attenuator (useful for setting modulation amonts and achieving desired pitches from the oscillators).

3 Triangle Core Linear Voltage Controlled Oscillators with dynamic wave clipping which allows for the triangle wave to be shaped into a square wave as well as different variations of trapeziods. Each oscillator has 2 Frequency Modulation inputs, 1 output and panel controls for Frequency and Wave Clippping.

1 Six Channel Mixer with 2 attenuators and Master Volume Panel control.

1 Expression Pedal/ external input. 1/4" TRS socket with +5V supplied to the ring allowing for the use of an expression pedal. Additionally, this socket can be used as an external input for either Control Voltages or Signals.

A single LED indicates power on/ off, and a Wall Transformer may be connect via DC barrel jack on the faceplate.

With this box you can creat everything from gurgling sequences to pure noise to complex drones (listen to the demos). The LFOs are not the only sorce of modulation. The oscillators are capable of modulating each other and the external input allows for modlation from an another source.

The Electronic Music Box will ship with MANUAL, power supply and 14 mini banana cables."

MAQ 16/3+Doepfer+Dalek----3

YouTube via DavideModu.

Polymoog - slightly broken!

YouTube via buchla300.
"Here is my Polymoog 203a taken out of it's case for the first time in years! I bought it as in need of work, but it doesn't seem that bad. A few voices don't work, sometimes craps out and some waveshapes need sorting etc etc but, worth doing though as I LOVE polymoogs. Better than people think. Crap phone quality video. Sorry!"

keybdwizrd - Battling Monsters (softsynths)

YouTube via keybdwizrd.
"All software synths used. Bass - Oddity played via Polar keyboard. Sync Lead - NI Pro-53 played via M-Audio MIDI controller. Synth Lead - Arturia Minimoog V played via Micro X keyboard. Drum track sequenced in Digital Performer using MOTU MachFive2 sampling software."

KIMI dance the house !

YouTube via imkimi. "dance dance"

Yamaha CS50

images via this auction

"serial # is: 1841. 77 pounds by itself"

BTW, do check out Matrixsynth-b. Some interesting items have gone up.

PAiA Strings n Things

images via this auction

It's smaller than I expected.

Why do I feel like I'm setting myself up for something...

White ARP AXXE Overlays

via this auction

Not the best images, but you do not see them in white often.

Note the auction is not for the ARP AXXE but just the patch overlays.

E-Mu SP1200

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"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"