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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Roland SVC-350 Vocoder Info-Sheet
YouTube via AnalogVocoder1.
Re-Uploaded on Nov 18, 2010
follow-up to this post. via robovoice on the forum. No vid, just sound.
"The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is the first truly sophisticated vocoder to be priced within range of most musicians. The primary function of the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is to analyze the spoken or sung human voice and use this information (or program) to trigger another musical signal (or carrier) giving the instrument the ability to 'speak' or 'sing'. This vocal synthesis is accomplished by processing the voice through a series of eleven 'Voice Character' analysis filters. All of the filters within the 'Voice Character Control' are active and control an envelope follower which reacts according to the volume of that individual frequency. This information is then used to shape those frequencies of the carrier (musical instrument) signal.
The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder uses ten filters for vowel sounds and there is also an extra filter with an extremely high slew rate allowing it to respond to the rapid transients of hard consonants, like the 'T' in the word 'today'. This consonant filter is a feature not found even on higher priced vocoders. The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder allows for both balanced and unbalanced program inputs and outputs and contains a special guitar input that permits attenuation of the guitar harmonics. Another remarkable feature of the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is a special 'Hold' feature that locks onto the vowel sound quality so that one vowel sound does not have to be continually repeated while you play your instrument. With other features like the 'Ensemble' effect, head 'Phone' output, as well as guitar amp and line outputs...the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is truly the next step in musical instrument effects.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Microphone Input (program): 1/4 phone jack or XLR connector 600 ohms -54 dBms min.
Instrument Input (carrier): 1/4 phone jack 100 k ohms guitar raw level
Guitar Amp Output: 1/4 phone jack 5 k ohms
Mono/Stereo Output: 1/4 phone jacks
Dimensions: 19(W)x 3.6(H) x 9.7(D) in."
night shot
via brian ctrack features "Bass station soft synth and filters"
Pic:
SCI Tom
Mam Warp9
SCI Prophet 2002
DSI evo rack
DSI evo desktop
Novation Drum Station
Novation Bass Station
EHX Bi Filter
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Oberheim OB3
A bunch of bench oscillators, frostwave and Metasonix stuff
Korg PadKontrol
KOrg ER1
Moog MP201
AHBA 2008 Pics via Brandon
click here for images of the event by Brandon Daniel.remember to click on the AHBA2008 link under labels below for all posts on the event.
WEM/watkins copicat
METZ vintage monosynth?
via Pal of the Hungarian Oscillator blog:
"In the early eighties I saw a monosynth with an upright control panel like the MS-20 and I am 99% sure it was called METZ, because I even found it on the map (it is a town in France). I understand there is a company manufacturing electronic stuff with that name but I have not found anything, NOT A TRACE of that synth on the web. Have you heard about it?"
If anyone knows feel free to comment or shoot me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site.
Update via Dirk:
"i've just found some Informations for the Metz Synthesizer on synrise.de
http://synrise.de/docs/types/m/metz.htm
Unfortunatley all the Informations are german but i've just did an translation:
(Feel free to modify it)
There are also 2 Companys called Metz, the first one is from germany which is building tv's and satelitte receivers the second one is from france and building heater / radiator stuff
Best wishes
Dirk
METZ
The US American Mike METZ has developed an analogue synth for his own purpose
ANALOGSYNTH / mon syn exp kmi ?
Metz combined parts and construction units from various companies and putted it all together in an wooden case.
For example he used the oscillator bank and mixer (as used in the minimoog). All the parts were modificated. So the oscillator banks had PWM and the possibility for seperate pitch modulation
Also he had several outputs for each waveform. For each oscillator in the oscillator bank (there are in total 3 banks) there is the possibility of coarse- an finetuning. The vca and vcf are built from parts of the sequential circuits - prophet 5
There are also two envelope generators with cv controlls , an cv controlled lfo, an inverter, an attennuator, an gate delay and cv/gate interface."
I should have thought of looking at synrise! Someone once challenged me to find a synth not listed there. I thought I did, but apparently not. I forget what it was though. :)
Update via the maker himself, Mike Metz of Thesis Audio Service: "Here is all the info for the "Metz Synth", just before too much urban legend misinformation starts. This synth appeared in the Keyboard Magazine May 1998 issue as "Keyboard of the Month". I am amazed that someone remebers that.
It is a one-off synth that I built for my personal use out of "leftover" parts from my repair shop. The OSC section is made from an original Minimoog OSC board that I had in stock from repair parts. It has been built in a modular fashion with several options that the Mini never had. Each of the 3 OSCs has mixable waveforms, PWM, coarse and fine tune controls, and individual modulation inputs much like a modular synth. Thats the OSC section on the left.
The right half contains circuitry designed around the SCI Pro-1, not the Prophet 5, but the same thing. It contains a modular VCF with voltaged controlled Co and Rez. There are 2 voltage controlled envelope generators, a voltage controlled LFO, a VCA/envelope generator module, two attenuator / inverter modules, a gate delay module, and the master CV I/O module. All designed around the Curtis CEM circuits."
Side note: per above Mike Metz now runs Thesis Audio Service. It looks like we have a new (old) synth tech.
"Since 1976, THESIS AUDIO SERVICE has provided the midwest with quality, afforable repairs, maintenance, and restoration services on all types of equipment for musicians, sound companies and dealers."
"In the early eighties I saw a monosynth with an upright control panel like the MS-20 and I am 99% sure it was called METZ, because I even found it on the map (it is a town in France). I understand there is a company manufacturing electronic stuff with that name but I have not found anything, NOT A TRACE of that synth on the web. Have you heard about it?"
If anyone knows feel free to comment or shoot me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site.
Update via Dirk:
"i've just found some Informations for the Metz Synthesizer on synrise.de
http://synrise.de/docs/types/m/metz.htm
Unfortunatley all the Informations are german but i've just did an translation:
(Feel free to modify it)
There are also 2 Companys called Metz, the first one is from germany which is building tv's and satelitte receivers the second one is from france and building heater / radiator stuff
Best wishes
Dirk
METZ
The US American Mike METZ has developed an analogue synth for his own purpose
ANALOGSYNTH / mon syn exp kmi ?
Metz combined parts and construction units from various companies and putted it all together in an wooden case.
For example he used the oscillator bank and mixer (as used in the minimoog). All the parts were modificated. So the oscillator banks had PWM and the possibility for seperate pitch modulation
Also he had several outputs for each waveform. For each oscillator in the oscillator bank (there are in total 3 banks) there is the possibility of coarse- an finetuning. The vca and vcf are built from parts of the sequential circuits - prophet 5
There are also two envelope generators with cv controlls , an cv controlled lfo, an inverter, an attennuator, an gate delay and cv/gate interface."
I should have thought of looking at synrise! Someone once challenged me to find a synth not listed there. I thought I did, but apparently not. I forget what it was though. :)
Update via the maker himself, Mike Metz of Thesis Audio Service: "Here is all the info for the "Metz Synth", just before too much urban legend misinformation starts. This synth appeared in the Keyboard Magazine May 1998 issue as "Keyboard of the Month". I am amazed that someone remebers that.It is a one-off synth that I built for my personal use out of "leftover" parts from my repair shop. The OSC section is made from an original Minimoog OSC board that I had in stock from repair parts. It has been built in a modular fashion with several options that the Mini never had. Each of the 3 OSCs has mixable waveforms, PWM, coarse and fine tune controls, and individual modulation inputs much like a modular synth. Thats the OSC section on the left.
The right half contains circuitry designed around the SCI Pro-1, not the Prophet 5, but the same thing. It contains a modular VCF with voltaged controlled Co and Rez. There are 2 voltage controlled envelope generators, a voltage controlled LFO, a VCA/envelope generator module, two attenuator / inverter modules, a gate delay module, and the master CV I/O module. All designed around the Curtis CEM circuits."
Side note: per above Mike Metz now runs Thesis Audio Service. It looks like we have a new (old) synth tech."Since 1976, THESIS AUDIO SERVICE has provided the midwest with quality, afforable repairs, maintenance, and restoration services on all types of equipment for musicians, sound companies and dealers."
Roland TR-606
via this auction. Note this is the same auction posted on MATRIXSYNTH-B earlier today. These are just some larger shots sent in by the seller.
Oberheim Matrix-12 Demo
YouTube via thegarranimal. via Switched On Synthesizer.
"This is an Oberheim Matrix-12 vintage analog polysynth, it is my personal favorite synth ever. Basses, strings, super-thick pads. Worth every red cent. Sound for this video was recorded into Cubase SX3 through an E-mu 1616M audio interface. Absolutely no effects were added. Probably half of the patches programmed by me! This demo is guerrilla style with mostly noodling - no rehearsing whatsoever - can you tell? So please take it easy with the comments....after all I spared you guys the Van Halen Jump riff the obies are famous for. Alas, maybe I make a better vid later."
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