Mattson Mini Modular: Sample and Hold Basic operation

YouTube via mmmodsynth | August 31, 2010

"This is the first in a series of operational videos describing the functions of the Mattson Mini Modular product line of modules" http://mattsonminimodular.com

FAT BASTARD

A few drool worthy pics in via Lester Barnes in response to Bernie's Wahalla Monster Modular. If you have access to his Facebook photo album, currently you will find 21 glorious pics of what could only be called FAT BASTARD. Is there any system bigger? Bigger than TONTO, and bigger than the system in Hans Zimmer's studio?

Anyway, I think Beer has Bernie beat. :) Put some clothes on man!

BTW, Beermaster's Fat Bastard gets credit for me setting up my Flickr account back in 2005! Here's the first set. The bottom pic of the Polyfusion in this post is from that set. I tried to check the exact date I uploaded the pic to see if it matched the date of the original post, but I'm not seeing it. But I did see this: "This photo was taken on August 19, 2002 using a Pentax Optio 330." Flickr must pull the info from the digital meta data in the pic, because I didn't add that. :)

Again, I think I need an everything label. Some random ones picked...

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PhotoNoise

YouTube via JCRUDESS | August 31, 2010

"This one slipped through the radar. It's an app called PhotoNoise. It's my choice to have the keyboard picture, but ANY picture can be used, and the sound responds to touching the various colors on the screen. Very spacey cool stuff here. I hope the developer goes on with this one, because I like this kind of stuff and I want play along!"


iPads on Ebay

Buchla 200e.

flickr set by kernelslacker
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Buchla Model Model 281e AND Model 292e

via this auction
http://buchla.com/
"The Model 281e Quad Function Generator has four function generators organized in 2 pairs. All four normally function independently. A momentary switch selects one of three modes: transient, sustained, and cyclic. An illuminated LED indicates the selected mode. On receipt of a pulse, the output voltage ramps up to 10 volts at a rate determined by the sum of an applied control voltage and the setting of the attack time knob. If in the sustained mode, the voltage will stay high as long as the input pulse is maintained. If not in the sustained mode, or when the input pulse terminates, the output ramps down to zero at a rate determined by the sum of the decay voltage and the setting of the decay knob. At the end of the decay, a transient pulse appears at the pulse output. If in the cyclic mode, the cycle now repeats. The time range for both attack and decay is from .001 to 10 seconds. In the quadrature mode, generators A and B (or C and D) operate in tandem to provide functions shifted by ninety degrees. The mode is selected with a switch and indicated with LEDs. An OR function can be invoked to generate more complex envelopes (ADSR). The model 225e or the 206e preset manager can issue commands to store and recall the 281e's settings. The 281e can respond directly to MIDI signals received by the model 225e MIDI interface.

The Model 292e Quad Dynamics Manager is functionally identical to the original 292, with the exception of two new features - the 292e has velocity inputs, allowing controllers to control note volumes with performance gestures. And its settings can be stored as a part of a 200e series preset. The 292e sports four independent voltage controlled amplifiers. Each has a signal input and output, a control voltage input that varies the unit's gain from -120 to +3db, an offset adjustment, and a velocity input. The latter adds further control to the gain when employed and becomes transparent when unconnected. A switch selects one of three operating modes: straight gate (VCA), lowpass filter (VCF), or a combination of the two, in which the spectral response varies as the gain is changed. Frequency domain gating imparts a dynamic tonal variation that gives the listener a sense of absolute loudness. This quality is characteristic of all acoustic instruments (the harder you strike, pluck, or blow, the richer the overtone structure). A mix of the four output signals is also provided. Aided by the model 225e or the 206e preset manager, the settings of the 292e can be stored and retrieved."

Korg Poly 800 Electric Keyboard Demo

YouTube via bac4calgravity | August 31, 2010

via this auction

# Serial #: 033972

For some reason YouTube vids disappear from posts when I use the "Click for more" link, so... no "more" link for this post.

Pan Kat Synth Steel Drum

via this auction

"Synthesized Steel Drum / Steel Pan... It also has other patches and more than 50 other instruments, but the main deal is the steel pan; it's laid out like an actual steel drum, and the sounds are better than any synth pan I've ever heard. From one side to the other it is 30 inches. Only used twice in the studio.

The PanKat comes with the manual, the stand, power adapter, mallets, and will be shipped in a lined, padded steelpan case. This thing is perfect for recording... no need to "touch up" or find a tuner to play it anytime.

RETAIL on this item was $2100; we purchased it for $1800."

Early ARP Synthesizer Factory Service Manuals

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"I was an ARP Factory Authorized Service Center in San Francisco during the mid-1970's, and was trained at a factory class in Los Angeles by factory service representative Fred Dodd [Phil Dodds], who played the role of the synth guy in the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Included are original blue line and blue prints of schematics, factory service notes, my personal notes, advertising brochures and posters, etc. gathered when I had my repair shop in the San Francisco area. Though San Francisco's synth guru John Vierra blew the doors off the competition back then (myself included), I went on the burgeoning field of "Personal Computers" in which I prospered well.

All documentation is in very good to near-mint condition with no missing or unreadable pages. This is my personal collection of service and support documentation from ARP which includes support information for:

* ARP Omni model 2480
* ARP String Synths models 2600-2606, 3620, 2300
* ARP AXXE model 2300
* ARP Pro Soloist model 2701
* ARP Odyssey models 2800, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813
* ARP Sequencer model 1601

Shipping will be in a 12 x 12 x 6 box weighing about 8 pounds."

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Univox Stringman Keyboard Synth

via this auction

inside a Univox Stringman

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Mutronics Mutator

via this auction

"The Mutator is a stereo analogue effects unit based on technology developed for synthesis in the late sixties. Quite unlike your standard reverb, delay, chorus and flange type effects the effects achievable with the Mutator are unique and quite simply defy description.

The Mutator is a stereo analogue filter and envelope follower with full control facilities. It contains two independent voltage controlled filters similar to those found in analogue synthesizers, which can be used to treat any external sound source. Each filter can be controlled from its own associated low frequency oscillator (LFO) and/or its own envelope follower section, which extracts the envelope contour of an input signal and applies it to control the cut-off frequency of the filter.

Each envelope follower can be switched to track either the envelope of the sound that is being treated by the filter, or that of an independent external control signal. This external control signal can be any audio source , eg. a drum sound, a guitar, a synth, a sampler output, or even a microphone. Thus the envelope characteristics of one sound can be superimposed onto the filtering contour of another.

Another switch on the envelope follower selects envelope follow mode or gate mode - in which the circuit detects whether a signal is above a certain threshold level before switching on.

In gate mode, the device can operate much like a dedicated noise gate unit, with the added capabilities of the analogue filter

The LFO's have four different sweep waveforms each and may be switched via a stereo link to produce stereo panning effects."