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Brain Tutorial - Foot MIDI controller

YouTube via lividTV
"This video shows you how to wire a Roland DP-8 foot controller to the Brain to use it as an analog MIDI control."

Rare BUCHLA 500 Modules

via this auction
"Extremly rare BUCHLA electric music box series 500 modules. ....only 3 exemplars ever made in the world!!! The cv interface module need of PSU and maybe the computer facilities directed to the series 500 computer system... I'm convinced that the joysticks and trigger, control voltages module can drive other modular systems with a right psu of course, they have a Cinch Jones plug for Power Supply and a pair of facilities connectors in the rear part. I don't know the right voltage that they need, I haven't any schematics.. I bought them for collection but ..I think they need of a new home with other Buchla brothers ;-) Amazing: the

two devices!"
joysticks are photosensitive built with optoisolators ..so the sticks are luminescent...a primitive but charming

CORON Drum Synce storm DS-3 analog drum synthesizer

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"CORON Drum Synce storm DS-3, vintage analog drum synthesizer. It work with a common 9 volts dc battery (to add inside) Very good working conditions, little but very powerful for make strange sounds, synthesized percussions, modulations & noises!"

Sequential Prophet-600 vintage synthesizer

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"Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 analog vintage synthesizer, Polyphonic, MIDI, 99 programs, onboard arpeggiator, 2-track sequencer and poly-modulation. FULLY working! It has a cool glide effect and has very flexible modulation possibilities! It's great for creating analog effects, swells, drones and ambient pads! Polyphony: 6 Voices; Oscillators: 2 VCO A saw,pulse, tri; VCO B saw, pulse, tri, PW; Filter: analog 4-pole lowpass (Curtis) with its own envelope generators; Keyboard: 61 key keyboard; Arpeg/Seq - Sequencer: 2-track, real-time only; Arpeggiator: up, down, up/down; Control: MIDI; Date:1982"

MAPLIN 3800 analog vintage synthesizer

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"Very Nice MAPLIN 3800, British vintage analog synthesier, based on the same Maplin 5600 circuits. It has a lot of interesting features like a VCS3 Trapezoid type envelope (Transient envelope) Nice Spring reverberation and equalization, two awesome oscillators, Sample & Hold, modulator, a COOL 24db resonant Filter and more!"

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ROLAND VP-330 vocoder plus MK1

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"ROLAND VP-330 vocoder plus MK1 from '70 years, EXTREMLY rare and in MINT conditions with a cool MIDI Kenton modification inside... the MIDI upgrade was very expensive: 470 gpb plus + professional installation service costs. Working status is perfect!

The VP-330 found favor with many key players and is especially prominent in Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman (For Massenet)” on Big Science... also was used by William Ørbit, BT, Styx, Kitaro, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Überzone, Air, Royksopp, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and many more. The VP-330 has a choir and string systesizer sections which can be mixed with the vocoder! You can mix any line signal also with an external input or.. you can play it also as a classic string machine. The vocoder shapes its envelope and filters by any sound source fed into it, your voice or even a drum loop can be used which is then applied to another sound source, typically a synth pad. This creates a very unique and famous robot-like sound, I think THE BEST VOCODER-STRING-HUMAN VOICE EVER!!

Polyphony: 49 voices Oscillators: 3 (string machine mixing), Filter: 18 VCFs: 54db/oct bandpass; 1 VCF: 54db/oct lowpass and highpass filters; 20 VCFs: 18db/oct lowpass filters; VCA: separate Mix Levels for Vocoder, String and Voice section and 20 envelope followers; LFO: Vibrato depth, delay and rate Effects: ensemble (chorus)"

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Addition Info on the Trautonium / Mixtrautonium

See the update in this post.

MAX BRAND SYNTHESIZER aka MOOGTONIUM live part 2 @ ARS ELECTRONICA festival 2009

Part 2 added here.

ModularSquare Demo Days

"ModularSquare Saturday Demos : eurorack modules american brands
For modular synths fans, ModularSquare organizes demo workshops. The next sessions are dedicated to the raise of american manufacturers of eurorack modules. Following MOTM or Modcam big sizes, Americans are making a step into the eurorack format, Livewire, Malekko and their Wiard reproductions, TipTop audio, Make Noise, Bananalogue and its Serge module .... many brands to be discovered....

March, Saturday 6 : Malekko & Wiard
April, Saturday 3 : Tiptop, Make Noise, Livewire

March, Saturday 6
from 2.00 pm to 6.30 pm, free entrance
6, rue Marceau, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, M° Pierre Curie
information @ 01 45 15 41 95 or info@modularsquare.com"

and in French:

"Les samedis démo de ModularSquare : modulaires d'outre-atlantique, la mode du format eurorack

Pour les fans de synthés modulaires et autres synthés analogiques, ModularSquare organise des ateliers de démonstration axés sur la pratique. Lors des prochaines sessions, Modularsquare s'intéresse à la recrudescence de nouvelles marques américaines de modulaires. Après les grands formats MOTM ou Modcam, les Américains se tournent vers le format eurorack. Livewire, Malekko et ses reproductions de modules Wiard, TipTop audio, Make Noise, Bananalogue et son module Serge.... des marques encore peu connues à découvrir...

Samedi 6 mars : Malekko revisite Wiard
Samedi 3 avril : Tiptop et Make Noise

samedi 6 mars
de 14h à 18h30, gratuit
6, rue Marceau, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, M° Pierre Curie
renseignements au 01 45 15 41 95 ou info@modularsquare.com"