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Rare Vintage PAiA Gnome with Original Box

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"It was originally made to imitate the sound of the wind, but it was possible to make other sounds as well. It has a small vinyl controller strip originally used to control the "strength" of the wind or other effects. Because of its small size and battery power, this small synth has become something of a classic. Very simple VCO and Noise source to VCF with just ribbon control and a couple function generators to do envelops with a trigger. Supposedly, only about 300 of these syths were made. This one has its original shipping box..."

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Roland SH-3a Analog Synth

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Noisebug (RSS)

"The SH-3a is a funky little analog synth and was among Roland's first programmable additive synths. The SH-3a has a single oscillator for a simple monophonic sound. It could perform additive synthesis by mixing in up to five different waveforms."

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Rev 2

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"Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Rev 2 with a cassette interface. This is the definitive five-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with 10 oscillators, 10 envelope generators, 5 lowpass filters and 5 VCAs.

Rev 2’s are the best sounding and most sought after Prophets because they contain the warm and musical, SSM 2040 filters. The SSM (Solid State Music) filters sound almost organic and keep their fat bass sound even when the resonance is turned up. They're much more "Moog-like" than the later Prophets using Curtis filters."

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Teebee & tb303

via Fabrizio Balistreri on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

LZX Ramps + Maths + Borg + TWF + Noisering

YouTube Uploaded by unobjet on Oct 25, 2011

"LZX Ramps (via Voltage Bridge) summed with two cycling channels of Maths, into the Borg 1. Another ramp into the key in on the Borg. Noisering CV-ing the frequency. Out 1 from the Borg goes into the red channel on a color video encoder, Out 2 goes to a Triple Wavefolder, before being split to the green and blue channels on the cve. Modulation from Maths applied to the TWF."

Synths and Planes

flickr By Zipsy1
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Thought those were chicken legs at first.

EX NEW ORDER EMULATOR II For Sale?

YouTube Uploaded by adz1962 on Feb 18, 2007

"New Order live performance of 'Blue Monday' at Shinjuku Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, 02 May 1985. From FACT 177 - PFD (Pumped Full of Drugs)."

via this auction:
"bought 1997 from Tim Eastwood at Axis Audio Stockport from his sale of ex New Order / Suite 16 equipment from Peter Hook. This is an EX NEW ORDER EMULATOR II circa 1984 as used on tour and in the studio by New Order. see video of this keyboard here being used live by New Order playing Blue Monday Live in 1985

This Emulator was bought by me Andy Lee (Grammy Nominated producer and part of Love To Infinity) and has been in my studio since 1997 as a piece of Rock N Roll History. It was used in the new Freak Asylum Video for the single Fetish with Kelly Llorenna.

A unique opportunity to own a piece of New Order history. I have never used this Emulator as it was sold to me as not working by Tim at Axis audio. So it is sold as a piece of rock history not a working Emulator."

This one in via JZ (pics | sound) - see the pics link for a Vince Clarke miniature (previously posted here).

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