BOSS RRV-10 Digital Reverb Micro-rack series

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"Nine reverb modes create appropriate sounds for everything from large halls and small rooms, to gated and reverse reverb. Pre-equalizer plus Input Cancellation system turns off the effect without abrupt cut-off of the reverb sound. New noise reduction circuitry minimizes noise."

Roland System-100 model 101

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ROLAND TR-330 Vintage analog drum machine

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"Rare early Roland drum machine (early -mid 70's). This is on eif the amplified versions with the option of playing through its own speaker out by line out. Fat analog sounds and includes a tempo marked metronome.
As was often included on early japanese manufactured items is a changeable voltage switch. Covers all voltage types from 100v - 240v."

YAMAHA SK20 SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE POLY-SYNTH

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Waldorf Micro Q Phoenix Limited Edition Synth

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"ONLY 500 OF THESE BABIES EVER MADE IN THE WORLD... THATS VERY RARE AND EVEN RARER IS THE FACT OF IT GLORIOUS CONDITION...."

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Roland CSQ-100 Sequencer

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1974 Experimenting with Electronic Music, 1st ed.

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"Published the very same year electro-industrial pioneers Kraftwerk released their breakthrough album "Autobahn," here's a wonderful, rare book covering virtually everything you ever wanted to know about music synthesis and reproduction. Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.

Contents include:

* Musical Electronics

History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer

* Sound and the Electronic Signal

Sound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave

* The Instruments

Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting

* Microphone and Pickup Applications

Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance

* Building a Small Electric Organ

Tone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages

* The Electronic Modifiers

Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit

* Electronic Tone Generators

Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ

* Odds and Ends

Two-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo

Apart from a little cover wear, the book is in very good condition. 180 pages. First edition, copyright 1974. This item ships WORLDWIDE."

Pencil Synth

Pencil Synth from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"555timer, few components and a pencil for drawing the musical interface and pitch bending."

la belle indifference: "Best friends"

la belle indifference: "Best friends" from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"This is our new song we made while performing in China at the Notch09 festival

'you are my best friend - I am your best friend!'

great fun with the talk box"

DIY Synth Building Course at Harvestworks in NYC

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"I'm teaching a 5-day long intensive course in synth building using CMOS chips. It's designed for entry level students with little or no electronics experience. It's hands-on and starts with a structured introduction to electronics theory, oscillators, and electronic sound, then moves quickly into a self-guided projects completed in class.

More in formation on the course can be found here:
http://shar.es/XPwN4

Sign up ends this Friday, Feb 4th! Class begins on Feb 7th. If you know someone in New York who would be interested in this class, please let them know about it.

The official short description:

This 5-day intensive course is designed to be friendly to those who are just getting started in electronics and have a curiosity in making their own electronic musical instruments. Students will review the basics of electricity, identify components, learn how to read and write schematics, design and build their own custom modular synthesizers from the 4000 series of CMOS logic integrated circuits.

A student of mine from the last class held in September of 2010 put together this really amazing video"

cigar synth & spring reverb from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"Thanks to Phil Stearns for intruducing me to the CMOS technology. Also thanks to the people at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center for their patience and support."