Circuit Bent Speak & Read DRAGON

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"FREAKENSPEAK DRAGON

Up for auction is a circuit bent Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, His name is FREAKENSPEAK, and he lives up to that name. This unit is similar to the Speak and Math, or the Speak and Spell units.

This unit is a FREAKENSPEAK DRAGON with moveable wings,arms,legs and tail.


Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
- Moveable wings,arms,legs and tail.
- 2 Super bright green LED's on the sides of the unit, great for live performance.
- 2 bend/glitch switches that bend and twist the words in different ways depending on what mode you are in and how many of the switches you have on. You can get endless bent sounds and words with these 2 switches. When you turn on a bend switch and you are in the right mode,you can get the unit to ramble on endlessly.
- 1 tone switch that puts out a steady tone that you can change to a lower tone by pressing the keypad. There are 3 or more different tones that you can get using this switch. You can use any of the pitch controls to "play" the pitch of the tone.
- 2 loop switches that will "catch" or "Freeze" a bent or normal sound and repeat it so you can play the pitch of the loop with any of the pitch controls.To advance to the next loop, just flip the loop switches off/on. No need for an extra "Loop advance" button. You can use both loop switches at the same time to create amazing combination loops.
- 1 Pitch change photo sensor that you can wave your hand over without touching it to change the pitch of the sound or loop, just like playing a theremin. This is one of the best feature of the FREAKENSPEAK. You can also use a lazer pointer or flashlight on the photo sensor for a cool effect.This is a great feature for live performance.
- 1 high/low pitch range switch, you can go from the highest pitch to the lowest pitch with the flip of a switch and control the pitch by using the pitch range pot.
- 1 pitch change ball for body contact, the pitch of the sound goes down depending on how much of your hand is touching it. The large pitch ball gives way more control of the sound than 2 little contacts.You can also touch the holographic front label to lower the pitch even more.
- 1 pitch change pot with ball knob to vary the pitch of the sound up or down. The ball knob is easy to grip and turn and adds to the cool look of the FREAKENSPEAK.
- 1 pitch change front panel lowers the pitch more when touching the pitch change ball. One of the coolest features is the added pitch control that touching the holographic front label gives, you won't find this feature on any other bent unit, or as many ways to control the pitch and loops. It is gold color, not green like in the picture.
- 1 Audio output 1/8" plug to send the signal to an amp or effects or to your computer line input.
- 1 Power adaptor input plug. Power adaptor not included (6 volt , 200 mA, center pin positive)but it will work with 4 "C" cell batteries too.
- 1 Reset switch to turn the unit on/off or to reset it if the unit crashes.
- 2 Cool holographic eyes that give the FREAKENSPEAK it's unique look. You can still see the display clearly thru the holographic eyes.
- 1 FREAKENSPEAK users manual describing how to use the circuit bent controls."

Creamware Minimax

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"The Minimax ASB (“Authentic Sound Box”) is a tone module — no physical keyboard — whose layout mimics the Minimoog, albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It isn’t just a controller, as all the sound electronics are built-in as hardware; the Remote software included with the package (more on this later) is for editing only. After the knobs and switches, the next thing you notice is the wood side panels. Yes, wood, as in “comes from trees.” Just below the front panel is where it becomes less traditional: There’s a 3-digit/7-segment LED display, and 14 old-school switches (with LEDs that indicate status, just like an old Prophet or Oberheim) for selecting presets, setting up MIDI, editing effects, and the like. I thought that the slightly smaller size might be a problem, but in practice, there’s more than enough room between switches that you don’t have to be ultra-careful when you move them — you’re not going to bump into something else. The Minimax’s architecture is the same as the Minimoog’s, which means it’s the same as 4,759 other synths, hard and soft. Three oscillators (#3 capable of serving as an LFO) feed a mixer, which also accepts an external signal input and white noise. A Minimax ASB “bonus feature” feedback switch connects the synth out back to the external in, so if you turn up the input control, you can get some highly resonant and unusual sounds. The mixed sound goes to a 24dB/octave lowpass filter and amp, both controlled by ADSR (attack-decay-sustain-release) four-stage envelopes — although the release is keyed to the decay time, and enabled only if the “Decay On” switch is activated in the Controllers section. ................Specifications Hardware synthesizer Virtual analog Circuit Modelling Number of Voices 12 44.1 kHz (internal oversampling) 32 bit 32 bit Audio Paths Analog Inputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced MIDI: In, Out, Thru USB: Full Speed USB rev 1.1 Power Input: 12V AC/DC"

Waldorf Pulse

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Waldorf Pulse
Yamaha FS1R
Yamaha MEP4
Roland Super JV
Kawai K3m

MOOG Rogue

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"Midi Modified Moog Rogue by: Diabolical Devices/ Class A Electronics,llc

This Moog Rogue has been professionally cleaned and serviced as well as modified with the following features.

Midi Input: control VCOs on any MIDI channel 1-16

Individual VCO/Modulation outputs: seperate 1/8" outputs have been added for OSC1, OSC2, Noise,
LFO triangle, LFO square, and Random Modulation. These can be used to interface with other analog keyboards. Blue Power LED. There is a working 24 VAC power adaptor included"

A Synthesist's Guide to Acoustic Instruments

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Side1.mp3
Side2.mp3

Update via Loscha:
"I've re-uploaded the mp3s. The disc is in Mono, so, I've made the mono, and trimmed the tops and tails.

Written my Howard Massey, Alex Noyes and Daniel Shklair. Published in 1987, the book gives it's reader a good insight into how sounds are made up, attacks, spectral components and such. These patch examples in the book are for CZ-101, Dx7, and generic subractive systems. They are presented on the Flexi as, well, realistic. But,
only realistic in terms of that these are the sounds that you, the end user, would end up with if you were to follow their book! The book presents typical ranges, polyphony in use, if the note can slide or trill, etc. A sort of how to guide for people without access to these instruments. It's not just about synthesis, it's about
playing technique, and how that translates into realistically recreating the style of the instrument in Synthr format.

The LP features an Acoustic sound, followed by the result from following the patches and techniques in the book.

The introduction from Dr John Chowning:
One of the most exciting experiences for musicians is in learning about the medium beyond "Playing the notes in a musical way." This book, designed for those who play and program synthesizers, is insightfully written. Here, the nature of the micro-structure of sound is clearly revealed and with it much of the magic of music. - Dr John Chowning, CCRMA, Stanford University."

"one hand" box

via Califaudio where you can find a video and the story behind this shot.

via manuel:

"I'm doing a set again on stickam tonight, with machinedrum only (wanted to play with a few synths but then noticed I'd have to prepare more). It's gonna be live at 12:00 pm GMT+1, so it should be 6 pm EST. The URL is http://bl0rg.net/~manuel/live.html."

This is on now.

Update via wesen in the comments: "
hey everybody, the show is finished, but there is a video of it here (the last 40 minutes). I'll put the mp3s online tomorrow. thx to everybody who showed up, nice seeing you :)"

Homemade Sixtrak Wood Sides

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"Home made wood sides for my Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synthesizer. A bit thicker than the original but I like how they look. Maple with a wipe-on poly stain/varnish coat."

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Poly Sequencer

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"This Prophet 5, ser.#5049, was purchased directly from Sequential Circuits and has lived its whole life in a non-smoking professional recording studio environment in the SF bay area, under the protection of the original owner. Save for one or two nicks in the wood paneling, this instrument is in perfect condition. The MIDI option was installed by a Sequential design engineer. The original protective plastic facing is still intact. The hardshell case was custom built for it at the time of purchase. It too is in new condition. The rare, companion Sequential Poly-Sequencer works only with the P-5, and only when MIDI is disabled (via a switch on the back panel). Original manuals for both P5 and Poly-Sequencer are included, both in pristine condition. hear it here: http://www.tapewarm.com/Litwin_att94C.mp3 all done only with the P5 and poly-sequencer!! pretty cool, huh!!"

Some spontaneous sounds

Stefan Trippler on the MOOG Voyager:

http://www.trippler.net/files/mp3/os1a.mp3

"I have a Voyager OS here since a few days, unfortunately only temporarily. Impressive machine, sounds, looks and feels great. I suppose though that I need to practice a little until I'm timingwise completely ready for the OS philosophy ;) Drums from Spectrasonix Stylus"

Stefan definitely has his own style. I was curious to hear what this one would sound like. Great as usual.