UK Synth Museum Elka Synthex with Factory MIDI for Sale

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Paul Wiffen & The Elka Synthex Published on Sep 17, 2013 Mark Keen

"Paul Wiffen demonstrates a 1984 Elka Synthex. Most famously used on Rendezvous as the Laserharp sound by Jean Michel Jarre. Paul also originally programmed the original presets. Also used by Geoff Downes and Stevie Wonder - a beautiful synth sorely missed. For more info and DVDs goto www.museumstudio.co.uk"
Update via Christopher Clement in the comments: "The bloke holding the pint is none other than Julian Colbeck of Keyfax fame."


via this auction

"Brief specs: 8 voice polyphonic analogue synth, 2 oscillators per voice with all the usual waveshapes. Single/ dual or 2 part split modes (split mode: 4 voices on each split with seperate outputs on the rear for upper/ lower), 4 track sequencer, fantastic filter- 24db low pass, 12db and 6db band pass and 12db high pass filter modes. Extensive modulation possibilities and routing, unique programmable glide section independant for each oscillator. Amazing 3 stage chorus ensemble. 2x LFO's, 2x ADSR envelope generators, 40 patch presets and 40 user memories...

This Synthex has factory midi installed.

Comes with some accessories- full ATA flightcase custom made for the Synthex (brand new), user manual and full (large A3) schematics, also including some spare IC's, 2x CEM 3320 filter chips and 3x BBD's for the chorus circuit.

This Synthex came from the now shut "Synth Museum" in the UK, if you check google you can find a demo video of Paul Wiffen playing this very synth at the Synth Museum, [above]

Paul Wiffen originally programmed the preset (ROM) sounds for Synthex's and this machine has an extra bank of 40 sounds programmed by Paul in the user (RAM) registers- a really good bank of additional sounds."

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Realistic Concertmate MG-1 with Original Box and Manual

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Circuit Bent BABELBOX

via this auction
"circuit bent Texas Instruments Touch and Tell unit. This unit is called the BABELBOX. This unit will make bent voice/tone/loop sounds when you turn on any of the bend switches and touch the front panel. You can change the pitch by moving your hand over the photo sensor or touching the body contact and front panel. The size is approx: 14" X 10" X 1.5". The unit uses 2 "D" batteries for power (not included).This is a great instrument for live work or for sampling sounds in the studio... It makes sounds that are very different than the sounds that the Speak and Spell / Math / Read FREAKENSPEAK. It can sound like a theremin or a spaceman on speed! Great for techno,sound FX or electronic music.

Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
2 bend switches that can twist and bend the words and sounds when you press on the holographic panel. You can get the unit to spit out bent words and bent sounds almost endlessly.
1 Glitch button that bends the sound when you press the holographic panel and then press this button.
1 distortion switch that adds fuzz/distortion/pulse sound to the voice or bent sounds.
1 reset button to reset the unit if it crashes.
1 tone "on" switch that puts out a nice triangle wave tone that you can "play" with any or all of the pitch controls. This feature works great with the photo sensor control.
1 Pitch change photo sensor switch to turn on/off the photo sensor.
1 Photo sensor that lets you "play" the pitch of the sound by moving your hand over the sensor without touching it, just like playing a theremin! This is one of the best ways to play the sounds on the BABELBOX.
1 pitch range switch that sets the range of the pitch from high to low. You can switch from the highest pitch to the lowest just by flipping this switch.
1 pitch change brass knob for body contact. When you touch the knob the pitch of the sound will go down. If you touch the holographic foil label with your other hand, the pitch will go even lower.
1 pitch change pot with ball knob that varies the pitch of the sound in both high and low pitch ranges.(as set by the pitch range switch)
1 pitch change holographic foil front panel works when touching the body contact.
1 audio 1/4"output jack to send the signal to an amp or FX unit.
1 Speaker on/off switch to turn the internal speaker off and send the signal to the 1/4" output.
1 super bright LED that strobes to the sounds that the unit makes.
Shiny black paint job with silver marble look.
1 BABELBOX users manual."

The Joy Of Joysticks

The Joy Of Joysticks from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

"Modular synthesizer that is being controlled by a voltage control joystick. Top half is the beginnings of my Ems VCS3/Synthi clone. Bottom rack is a Doepfer A-100 system. Beauty case houses the joy stick and exp. mixer/output."

ether^ra ARBITRARY TWITCH

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | October 25, 2010

"an improv featuring my Serges, a Foltek Pluton, a Genoqs Octopus/MFB-503, EH Delay, Alesis Bitrman and Oto Biscuit. http://etherra.blogspot.com"

Folktek on Ebay

SuONOIO Overview

YouTube via thedeepelement | October 24, 2010

"http://trashaudio.com/2010/10/suonoio... [NSFW pics there]
A semi-modular synthesizer created by Alessandro Cortini of Sonoio and Scott Jaeger of Harvestman."

EMS. VCS3. MK1.mp4

YouTube via QURAD33 | October 24, 2010

"Vcs3 improvisation at CCMR(KSYME).G.Xenakis center.
http://www.ksyme.gr

( sound comes through internal speakers and recorded with a mobile phone)"

JX8p+BCF2000

YouTube via lesingemonotone | October 25, 2010

"Using the Behringer BCF2000 as programmer for the Roland JX8p."

1983 Oberheim OB-8 Two Page Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the full write-up.

"This was the introductory ad for Oberheim's new flag-ship synthesizer. The two-pager only ran once or twice at the beginning of 1983 before being replaced by a half-page version (really? half-page? Yup!)."

LinPlug MorphoX

"Simplicity is the key
Dont get stuck in complexity, with you just need the modulation wheel and the keys to experience yet unheard expression and transformation in sound. Morphing made simple, in realtime, drastic changes in sound, right at your morph wheel.

Simplicity is the wheel
When you play and hear you wont believe its just a quite simple subtractive synth with chorus, delay and an arpeggiator. Its dead easy to create your own morphing sounds.
To get you started we hired some of the finest sounds designers to create 400 factory presets.

- the sound can be continuously morphed between two individual sounds including effects using the modulation wheel.
- powerfull yet easy to operate subtractive sound engine with many extraordinary modulation options (its a LinPlug)
- Stereo Filter with simultaneous low pass, band pass and high pass and Filter FM
- Modulation Matrix (10 routings, 20+ sources, 40+ destinations)
- user programable 16 step Arpeggiator
- Microtonal support (TUN file import)"
LinPlug MorphoX