MATRIXSYNTH

Synthesizers.com, Mini moog, V-Synth meets Christina

YouTube via Synthiefrau. She definitely gets my props for continuing to put this up after the chair incident. Synthiefrau rocks! Awesome! :)
"Hi ,here is a Video from the chaoswomen and her Synthesizer;-))) I mean you tube (lol) and not Ebay.;-))
The Chair was from Ikea. A very bullshit:-)"

Guitar playing with Bratigel Rotary Analog Step Sequencer

YouTube via heidibeerbel

Cynthia Sawtooth Animator

via this auction

Korg PE 1000 Vintage Analog Polyphonic Synth

YouTube via abertronic
"An audio demo of the korg polyphonic ensemble 1000 circa 1979"

via this auction
Note this is the one from this video as well.

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MOOG CDX Combo ~ ORGAN w SATELLITE SYNTHESIZER

via this auction
"Top Panel
Tab: Moog On/Off
Buttons: Piano, Sax, Guitar, Flute, Banjo, Clarinet, String, Trumpet, Horn, Preset
Tabs 1: Octaves: 1 & 2 Modulation: Rep, Sine/Square, Vib, Trem
Tabs 2: Glide, Sust
Tabs 3: Brass: Mute, Open Reed: Thin, Hollow, Full, Bright
Tabs 4: String: Bow, Pluck Strike, Pick Bell, Lunar

Left of Upper Keyboard
Knob: Tuning
Black Sliders: Flute Voices: 16', 8', 5-1'3, 4', 2-2'3, 2' Mixture, Volume Lower, Volume Upper
# White Sliders: Filter: Contour, Color, Emphasis Modulation: Rate, Depth Glide, Volume

Left of Lower Keyboard
Buttons: Coupler, Sustain, Bass
Sliders: Bass Min/Max, Guitar Bass, Vibrato Depth
Right of Lower Keyboard
Buttons: Percuss, Repeat, Mono

Sliders: 8', 4', 2-2/3', 2', Decay Short/Long, Repeat Rate Slow/Fast
Weight 80lbs. L- 46" W-25" H-11" "

Roland TB-303 DEVILFISH

via this auction
auction details - not this is not mine.
"TB-303 DevilFish circuit bent by Robin Whittle. However, there is a problem on the tempo oscillator. Every functions/knobs/buttons/sequnecer are working fine, but the tempo oscillator is not functional after "power on" for 2 mins. Eevrything works fine at the beinging and the tempo speed start to drop slowly. It works really well and nothing goes wrong if I use my SH-101 CV/Gate to slave the TB-303, everything is working. Also I am able to sequnce too, so I am sure there is nothing wrong with the sequncer. I have wrote to Robin Whittle about this matter, he said most likely there is something wrong with the Tempo OSC. That's why you need to get it fix if you want to use the TB-303 internal sequncer. (You can use any music gear with CV Midi convertor to slave it if you don't want to fix the tempo oscilator) Just give you a rough idea how you fix it. I would like to fix it myself but the circuit bent is too complicate in there, I am not able to remove the mainboard and take a good look at the front side of the PCB. I think this is a little problem which can be easily fix by changing the capacitor C7 and C9. However, I can not gurantee anything. Sold as is. You can change the C7 and C9 if you can locate the exact soldering point without removing the mainboard."

Roland JUNO-6

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Orgon Systems Energiser Analogue Synthesizer

via this auction
auction details - not this is not mine
"Pieces like this come up very rarely so don’t let this pass you by especially NUMBER 1

I brought this synth directly from Orgon back in 1997 and its only been used in a studio for a few hours. The condition is A minus, there are a few light scratches as its only a soft aluminium case, but none on the control panel

here are a couple of links for you to check out:
orgonenigiser.html
www.dancetech.com
I'm also selling a Kenton Pro-2000 ideal for controlling this synth."

Yamaha SS30

via this auction

Note this is the one in this video.
"Control section running from left to right pitch/ detune - The outer pot adjusts the overall tuning and the inner pot detunes the voices against the pitch which can produce a wonderful thickening effect ( some sources describe this synth as a duphonic/ multiphonic ,others describe it as a 4 voice polyphonic. I have a feeling it is a 4 voice polyphonic but the 4 voices are split between cello (two tones) and violin (2 tones) . It then uses divide down chips enabling all keys to be played at once)
Orchestra -Depth ( Speed 1/2 ,cello ,violin ) A great ensemble effect with 2 different effect types (speed) and the ability to separate the effect between cello and violin ( so you can have ,for example cello effect and violins dry )
Vibrato ,Delay/Depth- Very nice vibrato effect.
Sustain, Cello /Violin - sustain 1 control each for cello and violin giving again the ability to have separate amount of sustain for cello and violin sections . Very short to very long .
Keyboard split 0/1/2/3 .0 setting is no split and just the violin sound over the whole range. 1 gives a split with the lowest octave for cellos the rest strings. 2 setting gives 1 and a half octaves to the cello . 3 gives 2 octaves to the cello. The splits are indicated by a white dot above the note on the control panel
Cello ,Volume, attack/slow ,cello1/cello2 - control section for cellos giving control over attack fast/slow. Choice of 2 cello sounds.
Violin Attack/Slow, Viola/violin1/Violin2 /Volume - Same as cello control section though the volume is at the far right.
Brilliance Cello/Violin Very usable low pass filter for cello and violin. "
Update via stevenorgate in the comments: ""some sources describe this synth as a duphonic/ multiphonic ,others describe it as a 4 voice polyphonic. I have a feeling it is a 4 voice polyphonic but the 4 voices are split between cello (two tones) and violin (2 tones) . It then uses divide down chips enabling all keys to be played at once)"

Nearly. It has two master oscillators which are both dived down to give you the full set of notes, twice.

You need two waveforms to get a stringy effect so the same note outputs of the dividers are mixed.

When you press a key you're switching in a mix of two divided down oscillators.

The detune affects both oscillators but not equally hence you can detune one against the other and get to the good old thick sound but more importantly set the PWM type character you need for strings.

The outputs of these mixed waveforms are sent to either the Violin, Viola, or Cello mixers. In some cases the outputs can be sent to either one or the other mixer as set by the split selector switch.

The cello, viola or violin character is set by filters after each mixer. Violin 1 & 2 just are different (1st order) filters fed from the mixer, so when you switch them in you're just mixing and matching different filtered outputs of the same thing. the same goes for Cello 1 & 2.

So far it's just a paraphonic organ but with two tones per key. However the SS30 rules over other string synths because it has an AR envelope generator per key. When you set a long attack each time you press a key it starts a new attack just for that key. same with Release.

There's no VCF per key but that's what we have Polymoogs and, err, GX1's for."

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090308_Xplorer

flickr by greg_baumont

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Oberheim Xpander, Matrix-12 editor

"- sysex loading/saving now ok
- remote automation for the 226 single patch parameters with MIDI CC
- program change on Xpander now reflects into Xplorer
The waveform at the bottom is coming from the Wave Candy plugin of FLStudio

BCF2000-[midi]->FLStdio->Xplorer->Xpander- [audio]->FLStudio"