Update on the Acxel Resynthesizer

I just made a major update to this Acxel Resynthesizer post. You will find details on the use of this unique synthesizer as well as comparisons to the Kyma system. At the very end of the post you will find some links to more info as well as a soundtrack done mostly with the Acxel.

Micro Performance Poly-MIDI.1 Update

via Florian:

"I am the one who bought the Poly-MIDI from Bernd. It took me some time to understand how it works, but in fact it works fine - though I did not get everything. There are five sequences, which must be recorded from an external MIDI-keyboard in realtime. I did not find any relation between the keyboard like coloured buttons and the input modes. There is no mode, where you could use the buttons as a keyboard.

For playback there is a non-quantized mode and several quantized modes from 16th to quarter notes and several triplet modes.

Very nice feature is a chord trigger mode: it records a chord from MIDI and in playmode this chord will be transposed by the incoming MIDI notes.

There is also a step input mode, but each step it seems to be related to an step of the clock. The internal clock is 192 ppm - so this step mode is not very useful - at least until I understand it better. ;-)

Regarding clock: It reads and provides MIDI Clock, DIN-Sync and a TTL-clock (which is identically with the clock signal from the DIN-Sync), and finally it outputs a 16th trigger. Unfortunately it does not sync to an external 16th trigger. Syncing as slave works only for MIDI and DIN-Sync, the external Clock in seems to require TTL-level and so it is very "timid" (sorry, funny word, but describes it the best).

Finally I am still seeking for more information. There is no brand description neither at the outside nor inside the case. This one has the serial number "00387", but I cannot tell whether there really were that much of these sequencers. My suspicion is, it means: third made in 1987...

Anyone who has more info please get in touch with me via http://fa.utfs.org/contact, or of course, post it at matrixsynth.

All the best, Florian Anwander"

Baldwin Microcomputer Orchestra (Organ)

via this cl post.

"1970's Baldwin Organ from smoke free house. Includes over 30 music books as well as the original owner's guide."

Anyone know what this is capable of? Any synth inside?

via David.

no. 15: equivalent dosage (500 Röntgens)

YouTube via youshriek
"the caesium fallout series: 2 of 3
symptoms indicate acute radiation poisoning.
convalescence period: january - november, 1995"

devi ever : fx - BIT MANGLER, SPECTACULAR AENIMA, noise jam

YouTube via wwwEFFECTOR13com. http://www.deviever.com/fx/

Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer Music

YouTube via synthplay
"This music was produced on a Yamaha MM6 Synthesizer. The video is audio only, with a few graphics and title overlays. I've had the Synth about 6 months. And enjoy using the inbuilt patterns and sequencer. Yamaha are also due to release the new MM8 - which looks even better!"

PINK FLOYD "One of These Days" Cover

YouTube via gattobus
"I'm a big fan of David Gilmour but I can't play the guitar very well so... I did it with my Moog! I know, It's not like the original but... what the helll... It was fun! "

Akai at Messe 2008: Mike Hosker on MPC5000

YouTube via AkaiProVideo
"Mike Hosker performs on the new MPC5000 at Music Messe in Frankfurt Germany."

ELKA WILGAMAT III

images via this auction
"RARE ELKA WILGAMAT III SYNTH ORGAN DRUM MACHINE"

Update via Chris Jenkins in the comments:
"I have one of these; it seems to be in working order, but you need an Elka organ with a compatible KEYBOARDS output socket to make the Wilgamat play. Mike Walters came up with an ingenious solution; he built his Wilgamat III into a cabinet with its own keyboard. See [link]"

Nyle Steiner's Korg M1R EX?

via this auction

"originally owned by Nyle Steiner the inventor of The Electronic Wind Instrument or EWI for short. Here's a link to his home page! The unit is in great shape and has Nyle's drivers license and name ecthed into the front panel...."