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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Drawing of the Eminent 310/Solina String Ensemble Factory in the 1970s

via Ernst Hill on
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"The Eminent 310/Solina String Ensemble factory in the Netherlands during the seventies. Drawing printed on the back of the warranty certificate."

"If you call Eminent today and ask them about the 310 etc they will hang up the phone and say "go away with that Jarre Devils music..."
True or not?   You be the judge.

How to make a nice TB-303 square on the Elektron analog Four

Published on Dec 11, 2012

"A quick how-to for making the transistor pulse just like a 303 square wave, I checked these on my oscilloscope and with these settings it looks (and sounds) exactly the same as the square wave on my 303. Of course the A4 is not just about emulating old synths, but it can be fun to do anyway, enjoy."

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Novation MiniNova

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"The MiniNova 37-Mini-Key Compact Synthesizer by Novation has the same sound engine as the larger model, UltraNova. It includes 256 onboard sounds that you can tweak with five knobs, or totally warp with eight "animate" buttons. It has polyphony up to 18 voices with as many as five synth effects on each sound. MiniNova also has onboard VocalTune and classic vocoder effects, so you can recreate iconic vocal sounds from hip hop, urban and electronic music.

MiniNova has a powerful sound engine for a micro synth. In addition to its 256 onboard sounds, it has space to save 128 of your own sounds. You can quickly search for patches by selecting the style, or the type of sound. MiniNova has 14 conventional waveforms to choose from, 36 wavetables and 20 digital waveforms. Each of the 3 oscillators has density/detune, virtual sync, and an additional low-pass filter called "hardness." There are 14 filter types, 6 envelope generators, 3 LFOs and 20 modulation slots where you can link synth modules together. MiniNova can also add up to 5 effects to each sound; including distortion, reverb, chorus/phase, delay, compressor, EQ and Novation's unique gator effect.

MiniNova includes a gooseneck microphone, taking its vocal effects one step further. In addition to VocalTune and the 12-band vocoder, the mic input can be routed through the effects engine. The onboard 1/4" input can do the same with an instrument.."

E-MU SP-1200 SN 4440887 with Stylefip Panel Overlay

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Note the styleflip.com logo on the bottom right. They make custom skins for various gear.


Kawai K5M Digital Additive Synthesis Module

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"There is also a 'Fly' sticker on the front edge."

Studio Electronics ATC1 with MINI and 303 Filters

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You can catch videos of the unit at the auction or previously featured here and here. Great demos BTW.

Analogue Solutions VOSTOK V2 SN 4095

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"This is the V2 model from 2010 so it has all the factory upgrades and modifications. Not to mention rugged steel suit case design. Extremely well designed and perfect gateway to full EuroRac Modular Synthesis. Great labels and mapping and excellent PIN MATRIX for connecting modules. In addition 1/8" Jack for most all Audio/CV input / outputs. Comes with 3 cables and 10 Resistor Pins and 10 Shorting Pins. Set up for 220 lead. Can be switched to 110 for USA."

360 SYSTEMS SPECTRE

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"For your consideration is this vintage 1979 360 Systems Spectre guitar synthesizer. This particular example is in very excellent original condition and was recently serviced to be completely studio ready. The Spectre guitar synth features the Oberheim 1180 "A" board which is the same board found in Oberheim's SEM synth module. This synth also features two analog oscillators, a single ADR filter, and an LFO. Producing incredibly rich fuzz, string sounds, octaves, envelope filtering, polyphony, phaser/flanger effects, etc., this unit makes the magic of Oberheim's SEM, also found within the TVS-1 2-voice, accessible to guitarists, other electrified stringed instruments, or even addition synths. A must have for the analog synth collector, inventive guitar players, and studios with an emphasis on vintage analog equipment, this is a really incredible piece."

VERMONA Piano Strings - Vintage Analog Strings Synthesizer SN 292399

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Elektronika EM-14 VENTA

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" It's a vintage synthesizer - organ (called synthorgan) with three sounds: Organ, Bass, Synthesizer. You can mix ratios of sounds between them or use only one of them. I really love bass and synthesizer sound which are unique and fat. It's not Moog, it's not Roland, neither Korg - it sounds it's own way (you probably know what I mean if you ever heard synthesizers like Elektronika EM25 or Polivoks). If you're looking for bubbling and dark bass with beautifull VCO filters (section of synthesizer is really creative, you have filters, modulations and ADS included!), absolutely vintage chorus and delay, massive leads and other here it is! As for organ sound - it's full, really dynamic sound, so if you like Hammond you'll like it very much! Ouch, it also have expression pedal which works fine! Please check this track which I made with this synth. The bass and this horror synth are straight from that machine!! - https://soundcloud.com/kirkkirk/pies-zdech Here's another preview of synth combined with one more device made by somebody else - www.kucz.net/sounds/VENTAPROMO.mp3. And another one, bass and organ plays here: www.giva.xf.cz/house_of_the_rising_sun.wma

Everything works fine except one thing - I have no idea why but chorus effect do not work. To be honest - I never gave it to specialist so it could be just time and dust . The rest works good. More photos you can find here: www.giva.xf.cz/venta.rar"
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