On the Workbench: Juno-106, part 2

Roland 80017A voice chips on edge. Click here for part 2 of the repair post on Sequence 15.

BTW, be sure to check back on Sequence 15 for progress as I do not plan to put up every post. I thought this was a good image of what the dreaded Roland 80017A voice chips look like on the board. The chips are notorious for going out, and they can be very difficult to find. You can find all posts on the 80017A, including a clone of the chip here.

Minimoog

flickr by daydream4inc

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The Deutsches Museum - Musical Instruments

You might remember the Deutsches Museum from this previous post on the Siemens Studio for Electronic Music. elgauchoandres decided to take a trip to the museum and while there he took a ton of pics of the instruments along with the video below.

"About the Siemens-Studio much was written and pictured but I want to remark the details of the mixing desk, the recorders, the generators of the Generatorwand (Synthesizer), the vocoder, the Frequenzumsetzer (frecuency shifter), the Nachhallgërat (reverberator)(this was new to me, never seen information about it), the Hohnerola, the MEL-filter, the Sägezahngenerator (sawtooth oscillator), etc."


Pictured: The Towiphon


Deutsches Museum - Electronic Musical Instruments
"A view of the historic electronic musical instruments in the Deutsches Museum"
YouTube via elgauchoandres.

Regarding the Towiphon. I ran a quick search on it and didn't find much, however I did find this book in German on Amazon. The following is the description in Googlish:

"Peter Thomas the unique German film composer, sometimes by his more experimental side. The people of bungalow records had the unique opportunity the Thomas own archive browse. For as much as nearly 3000 more or less short clips they searched 29 from the aie on the 2nd cd assembled. All instrumental office and with the emphasis on electronic sound generators. Peter Thomas is developed together with a technician a synthesizer (Towiphon) according to their own ideas, his abilities here massively apply. For those people more melodic pieces of this promise is rather less suitable. Who insight into early experiments with electronic searches, has a veritable treasure trove ahead. On CD1 is to hear what 17 young musicians today with this source material started. We are all very inspired and often danceable tracks.
Must! For people with open ears"

New Yamaha CS70M Website

"The CS-70M is yet another unique instrument from the Yamaha. Polyphony is a maximum of 6 (2-oscillator/voice), although it is bi-timbral in two different ways; the keyboard can be split, with a different patch-pair on each half (or the sequencer plays the lower patch-pair and the keyboard plays the upper), or the oscillator pairs can each have a different patch (see below)."

click here for the website via Anders in Sweden.

Bill O'Rielly is a Putz?

see this post.

Synton 3000 modular synthesizer

YouTube via scienceforce

"Here a video of a rare Synton 3000 modular synthesizer system. It was the Felix Visser preproduction model and personal system with some rare modules, full of control voltage generators and processors. This is an auto modulation demo."

Cynthcart

via this auction

Hohner Stringvox

images via this auction

"A multi-function keyboard SYNTHESIZER of the '70s. Voices include:
* cello
* violin
* viola
* piano
* contrabass
* harpsichord
* Split Bass"

Roland Juno-106

images via this auction

"It's also commonly said that the Juno-60 sounds "punchier" than the 106 because the 60 had the ability to modulate osc. pulse from an envelope."

I actually haven't heard this one often. Feel free to comment.

Yamaha RM1x

images via this auction

"The incredible Yamaha RM1x is a complete dance-music workstation that is both a real-time performance instrument and a powerful production tool. An intuitive "hands-on" interface makes realtime operation easy for artists with a DJ background, while in-depth sequencing and editing functions make it possible to create the most complex original patterns from scratch.

The RM1x also features a great-sounding tone generator with an enormous selection of great dance sounds built in. If dance is your style and you want the most powerful performance and production tools right at your fingertips, it doesn't get much better than this: the Yamaha RM1x Sequence Remixer.
An extensive arsenal of 700 outstanding dance-oriented sounds. An awesome assortment of 50 preset styles, 960 pattens ans, 726 phrases.
8 assignable real-time control knobs, a large LCD display panel with 4 display knobs and a large multi-function keyboard.

Each "style" has up to 16 "sections" which can be switched in real time during playback via the RM1x keyboard.
Powerful 16-track sequencer with 110,000-note memory and 480 clocks/quarter note resolution lets you record original material via the RM1x keyboard or an external MIDI keyboard using a versatile range of record modes: realtime replace, realtime overdub, punch-in, step, and grid.
In-depth sequence editing functions make it possible to creat and refine complex patterns and musical textures with extraordinary precision.

Edit and refine the RM1x voices to create sounds that most ideally suit your own music.
A sophisticated multi-effect system can be used to add anything from subtle ambience to wild variations.
Realtime “Play Effects” including harmonize with unison and octave functions, beat stretch, clock shift, gate time, and velocity offset.
Built-in floppy disk drive for convenient, low cost data storage and retrieval.
Full MIDI compatibility."