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E-mu SP-1200 Sampling Drum Machine

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"The unit has a mono Master Output, individual Outputs for each of the 8 parts, MIDI In/Out/Thru, and various Sync options...

A fair amount of restoration work has been recently done on this unit. Most notably, a new Noritake VFD display replaced the faded old LCD display.

The Record In and Master Out knobs were bypassed. (The idea behind this is to preserve the unique sonics of the unit as much as possible and to increase reliability over time. The unit now always inputs and outputs at maximum level.

I/O Levels can still, of course, be controlled at your mixer.)

A few of the drum pad bottoms (the spring-loaded portion of the drum pad) were very worn, and were replaced with NOS parts.

A worn slider was replaced with a NOS original part. One of the original SSM2044 analog filter chips had gone bad, so it was replaced with a NOS one as well. Finally, the worn E-Mu knob that controlled Metronome Volume was replaced with a much higher-quality UREI knob, with set screws. (The original knobs were much cheaper and did not have set screws.)...

Some extras are included: (4x) boxes of unused blank Maxell 3.5" discs, (16x) Sample Library discs, an OS Boot Disk, a paper copy of the Manual, (2x) spare NOS pots for Master Volume and Input Volume, (2x) spare drum pad bottoms (this is the spring-loaded part that sits inside the machine), a spare NOS SSM2044 analog filter chip, and a spare NOS slide fader."

Breakaway VOCALIZER 2000 Voice Controlled Synthesizer

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"This is a BREAKAWAY Music Systems, Vocalizer 1000 Voice-Controlled music Synthesizer. Uses 6 C size 1.5V batteries. real good condition, on the side it has slots for MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, Opion button, Handset, Audio In, Audio Out/Headphones JAM LINK Tuning button and DC 7.2 Volt for ac adapter. the attachment handset has a button that has Octave up and Slide, the very tip has silver tape on it, it had a small split and they used that to hold from spreading. Works real good, it does need batteries or a AC adapter. It has a digital readout bar, i think this can be looked up online with Breakaway Music for manual and instructions. This has so many buttons and can do alot of things. It has a smartsongs section on face of it too. the very front top has Multitrack, record, stop, play, track, edit notes, edit rhythm, cart, yes, no delete, tap, the it goes to smart songs, then to all every instrument you can think of and the another section on very bottom."

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Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter Synthesizer w/MPG-80

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Arturia Origin synthesizer

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"Check out Arturia's Web site at www.arturia.com, the new 1.3 update is due out shortly which includes the new jupiter 8. onboard compression among many other on going refinements. These retailed in 2008 at awave for 3800 +au dollars....! "

Yamaha PTX-8 Drum Triggers & Synthesis

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"Back in the day this was the bees knees. I was told when I purchased this that it was used in touring company lighting rigs, and that served for a big tourings bands triggering drums to lighting. He was quite proud of setting it up for a Phil Collins tour. If it made the lights go on and off during "In The Air Tonight", that's something I guess!

Designed to compliment cymbals and hats in the stage, also used in lighting rigs. This unit does not make these sounds unless you have a cartridge with these sounds on them! The concept was that hats and such took up less room to lug around on tour. You'd use trigger pads for Kick, Snare + Toms, and just mix up the other instruments in the desk.

They were the quickest triggering available in their day, and still hold there own against modern units. SOLID! The manual is HERE so you can see how useful and diverse the programming is, it's better than me rambling on. Sealed's Deep Synthesis has some sound samples and more info, and some mp3 sound samples.

Serial Is #01009. 240v version. No cartridges included. The power plug is on 6 foot cord. 8 Individual ins for your pads or switches (I've used both - very customizable sensitivity in kits enables mixing and matching of different sorts). 8 Individual Outs, as well as Mix Outs and a headphone socket on the front (with Volume control). Memory Up and Down and "Foot Switch" sockets around the back as well as the Midi In/Out/Thru we've all grown to know and loathe.

You can make some really amazing sounds with this unit, especially when combined with actual drum triggers or playing with velocity sensitive pads of some kind. Sounds can bend in pitch up, or, more usefully down. Really perfect for Dropping the bass in Dubstep, Breakcore of Grime tracks. Also lets you "Loop" the waveform. The sounds are synthesized using an attack and sustain part of the wave, this will loop the sustain. Radical pitches and loops allow for all sorts of glitchy chaos to be generated."

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Maxim MDS-1000 Analog Drum Brain - Simmons SDS V Clone

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"This is a mighty piece of engineering.
In a time when analog filter chips were plentiful, and XLR connectivity apparantly grew on trees, a company in Japan no-one has really heard of since (not the Maxim that made pedals) decided skimp on R&D and just Clone the leading competition with a product almost identical, but "unique" and "different"...

Each card has an SSM2044, some 3080s and a few other nice pieces. Some of the digital chips (patch switching for example) might be a bit flaky... There's no MIDI, the triggers work at different velocities. You could use all the outputs on the PTX8 I'm selling to drive this. It kind of works (I tried it once)."

inside a Maxim MDS-1000

Also see the seller's 24 Unit Rack.

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