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Dave Smith Prophet '08

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"Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 Synthesizer Specifications:
* 5-octave keyboard with semi-weighted action, velocity, and aftertouch.
* Spring-loaded pitch wheel and assignable mod wheel
* 256 fully editable Programs (2 banks of 128) with 2 Layers (2 separate sounds) in each Program.
* 16 x 4 gated step sequencer
* Arpeggiator
* 2 digitally controlled analog oscillators (DCOs) per voice with selectable sawtooth, triangle, saw/triangle mix, and pulse waves (with pulse-width modulation), and hard sync.
* White noise generator
* 1 Analog Curtis low-pass filter per voice, selectable 2- and 4-pole operation (self-resonating in 4-pole mode).
* 3 Envelope Generators: filter, VCA, and assignable (four-stage ADSR + delay); Envelope 3 can loop.
* 4 LFOs
* Glide (portamento): separate rates per oscillator.
* Analog VCAs

Ins and Outs:
* MIDI In, Out, Thru, and Poly Chain
* Main stereo audio output: 1/4" unbalanced
* Output B stereo audio output: 1/4" unbalanced
* Sustain pedal input: accepts normally on or normally off momentary footswitch.
* Pedal/CV input: responds to expression pedals or control voltages ranging from 0 to 5 VDC (protected against higher or negative voltages).
* Headphone output: 1/4" stereo phone jack.
* Includes power supply for 110V 240V AC operation (13-15 VDC, 400 mA) and operation manual.

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08 Synthesizer Features:
* Two analog oscillators per voice
* Classic Curtis analog low-pass filters
* Extensive modulation routing capabilities.
* Four-on-four splits and layers with separate stereo outputs for each layer
* Arpeggiator, gated 16 x 4 step sequencer, and LFOs all syncable"

Waldorf Q

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KORG DW-8000

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The BIN on this one is low. Always be careful. Always buy with a CC that will cover you should the deal go south.

MFOS WSG Weird Sound Generator

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"MFOS--- Music From Outer Space---- WSG----Weird Sound Generator!!!! Analog Synthesizer---Noise Funk Box!!!! This one is in perfect condition, built by Ray Wilson of MFOS himself"

RS370 Polyphonic harmonic generator - Samples

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click here for the samples

"For the above audio demo clips the following has been used: apart from the sound source that is an Analogue Systems RS-Integrator modular (including two RS370's, two RS375's and two RS290's), many Doepfer envelopes, multiples, mixers, vca's, lfo's, plus Metalbox/CGs, sequential switches, Gated Comparators, Burst generator, Pulse Divider/ Logic, VC Divider, Gate Sequencer, Digital Noise, plus Blacet VCO's, Attenuator. Reverb, Delay and Chorus from Sony and Roland Digital Effect processers have been also added sometimes."

MOONMODULAR trigger sequencer M563

YouTube via moonmodular. via moonmodular in the comments of this post.
"Prototyp test of the M563.

Text from the http://www.Matrixsynth.blogspot.com YUSYNTH says: "This Moon Modular 563 module is apparently the commercial version of a module that was custom-made for Gert Jalass. For Xmas 2006, Gert Jalass sent me a Xmas card showing his sequencer unit including two prototypes of the module that were labelled 963. This is a four voices 8 steps trigger sequencers.
Each switch has three states:
Trigger on, OFF, reset.
The pulse width of the triggers can be adjusted independantly for each row.
The module has a clock of its own, but each row can be independantly driven by an external clock."

The M563 drives two ARP sequencer, one ARP for the VCOs and the second for the VCF of a minimoog."

Amplitude Modulation, AM

"What is amplitude modulation?

In order that a radio signal can carry audio or other information for broadcasting or for two way radio communication, it must be modulated or changed in some way. Although there are a number of ways in which a radio signal may be modulated, one of the easiest, and one of the first methods to be used was to change its amplitude in line with variations of the sound.

The basic concept surrounding what is amplitude modulation, AM, is quite straightforward. The amplitude of the signal is changed in line with the instantaneous intensity of the sound. In this way the radio frequency signal has a representation of the sound wave superimposed in it. In view of the way the basic signal "carries" the sound or modulation, the radio frequency signal is often termed the 'carrier'."

You can read more about AM here.
Note the John Bowen Solaris features AM. You can read about that here.

"Good Evening Mr.Echo" Gattobus LIVE Experiment

YouTube via gattobus
"I made this video about a month ago. It was an experiment using an old Ibanez Analog Delay AD100 I found at work in the shop. The song wasn't very good so I didn't upload it at first, but... what the hell... It was fun while playing it, so here it is...
I also added some tutorial comments about the sounds..."