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Roland Juno-6 Hand Painted

images via this auction

It almost looks shellacked. Decent BIN on this one considering.

From the description:
"I added the heart sticker awhile ago but I, ahem, didn't have the heart to take it off."

Merry Christmas From Goldfrapp

YouTube via GoldfrappChannel. Electro-Harmonix Mini Synth. via tara busch of AnalogSuicide in the comments of this post. Note: if you like Goldfrapp, check out AnalogSuicide for one more video of them with some groovy outfits.

"Seasonal greetings to one and all.

Before we scamper off to our Christmas hidey hole to prepare for the release of Seventh Tree we are pleased to say that Alison and Will have prepared this very special Christmas message for you all, filmed in the back streets of N1 in London on Wednesday.

Frappy Christmas everyone and we hope that you have a wonderful new year.

The Deer

xx

http://www.myspace.com/goldfrapp
http://www.goldfrapp.com"

Pure Magnetik Clap Box

SIMMONS Clap Trap samples via Pure Magnetik.

via hadjek in the comments of this post.

Admin: And I messed up my template

Old one coming back soon.
Update: it should be all back to normal now. Let me know if I missed anything.

Ghostland Observatory - Sad, Sad City ~ Live From Austin, TX

YouTube via LiveFromAustinTexas. Sent my way via Jared.
"Ghostland Observatory Live From Austin, Texas"
Any synth player with a cape gets an automatic post.
Anyone ID the gear?

Chris Pirillo Shows His Tenori-On

YouTube via lockergnome.
A non synth geek perspective. Chris Pirillo is this "geek", founder of Gnomedex and Lockergnome.
"http://live.pirillo.com - I have no musical ability or talent at all. It's not for lack of trying, I assure you. I love music, and I love creating music. Thanks to the person from the community who recommended this great new toy, I can do this easily! And... special thanks to Ponzi for getting me this for Christmas!"

BTW, I updated this post with the YouTube version of this video. You can find more of Chris Pirillo's videos via the lockergnome link. Same goes for all YouTube vids I put up.

Maxim Synthesizer Drums - MDS-500

via André Vézina

"Specifications: 5 trig in, 5 output, one for each sound, Bass drum, Snare drum ,High tom, Low tom, Bass tom. There's a white noise for each sound.

Control: Trigger, noise, tone, bend, decay, balance, pan and level.

The potientiometers seems to be a good quality. I trig it with the audio output of my hr-16b, and it works perfectly. "

As always, click the image for the full size shot.

Yamaha CS01-II Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via peahix.

peahix on MySpace

"All the sounds (drums too) are from my old monophonic Yamaha CS01-II, which I had retrofitted with CV/Gate jacks and plugged into a Kenton Pro Solo midi/cv box. I bounced each part from midi to audio one by one in Cubase, mixed with some effects. Maybe I'll develop this into a complete song someday, for now it was just a quick experiment to see what a full arrangement using the CS01-II would sound like.

You can download a Kontakt program of a bass sound I made with this synth here: http://www.twango.com/media/peahix.pu..."

Electro-Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer Analog Synth

YouTube via peahix.

peahix on MySpace

"i haven't seen any demos of the eh mini synth on youtube, so i thought it high time to put one up here. this thing is kind of like the edp wasp, though not quite as versatile. obviously i'm just noodling around, but this will give you a basic idea of some of the sounds this thing makes. pretty limited, but what it does do, it does quite well. also, you can get an idea of how the velocity sensitivity works on this thing.

as a bonus, you can download a very detailed kontakt program of a big bass patch that i made with this synth by going here: http://www.twango.com/media/peahix.pu...

for those interested, the controls are:

top row sliders l-r:
-pitch bend
-sub octave
-phase rate
-sweep start freq
-sweep stop freq
-sweep rate
-master volume

bottom row switches:
-octave
-tune (recessed trim pot)
-phase
-sens.
-2x filt.
-q
-power

btw, the "phase rate" slider acts as a pwm lfo rate when the "phase" switch is in the up position, and acts as a continuously variable pulse waveform when the "phase" switch is in the down position."