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Friday, October 31, 2014

soundmachines big guns: RC1, BI1 and DC1

EMU Emulator E III SN 0790256

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"Included in this auction is:

1) The EMU Emulator E III Professional keyboard. It has many memory cards installed

2) Lacey HD

3) Apple 266mhz G3 Power PC with 6gb HD, 24x cd, zip drive, AV. 32mb, 512 cache. Inside the computer is a SCSI Rev A control card for the EMU Emulator E III. This thing is huge 12" long and has 12gb memory installed (three 4gb cards).

Think of this... The very popular Arp and Moog analog boards from this same time frame (in the 1990's) were selling for about $1,500 to $2,000 new... While this keyboard was selling for $12,500 to $15,000 So those other keyboards aren't even close to the same quality as this keyboard. This is the Rolls Royce of analog boards.

The Emulator III was E-mu's biggest classic "Digital Sound Production System". Also called the "EIII", it was E-mu's biggest and most professional sampler-synthesizer prior to the 1990's. It was the first sampler to offer 16-bit CD-quality specs with stereo or mono sampling at 44.1kHz or 33kHz. RAM memory is 4 MB expandable to 8 MB. There are extensive and modern sample editing features (from looping to rate conversions). The on-board 16-track sequencer and arpeggiator are also superb. Equipped with MIDI, SMPTE, SCSI, built-in disk-drive and multiple outputs, the EIII is comfortable in any studio. A Macintosh can also be hooked up to the EIII for easier graphical editing which was very useful since the LED screen on the synth is so tiny. In the 1990's this Synthesizer cost an astonishing $12,550 to $15,000, making it one of the most expensive synthesizers ever sold. The cost made this a rare sale so very few of these were actually sold. This synthesizer is extremely rare and an extremely powerful analog synth.

As a sampler workstation the EIII was at one time the dominating force. Although some modern machines exceed it today, the EIII is still a very high quality instrument with controls and functions that would be familiar to anyone who uses high end samplers. A very classic machine that can still stand strong among a generation of sampler workstations 10 years later, the EIII is still in use and will continue to be used for many more years. It has been used by Depeche Mode, Genesis, and JellyFish. If you can find one of these synthesizers you would be very fortunate because they are rarely found today (truly a prized museum piece to be put on display)."

Sequential Circuits PRO-8 Vintage Analog Synthesizer SN 02443

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"Up for sale is SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PRO-8 vintage analog synthesizer. This is the rare Japanese version of the SCI SPLIT-8 synthesizer.

According to the web -
Around 1983-84 Sequential Circuits, in order to break into the Japanese market, shipped the Curtis SENTE (CEM 3394) chip and the firmware for the Sequential Six-Trak to an other Japanese manufacturer. It was their plan to have that that manufactuer design a synthesizer more targeted at the Japanese buyer. This Japanese company created an 8-voice bi-timbral version of the Six-Trak. They added a 5-octave, 61-note (C-C) keyboard to it and sold it in Japan, calling it the Pro-8. Sequential, liking what the Japanese manufacturer had done with their design and worrying that they might market their synth with one of their competitors (ie. Korg), asked for some design changes and a name change, and sold the Japanese-made synth as the Split-8."

Seqeuntial Circuits Prophet VS

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"Prophet VS synth in great cosmetic condition, works perfect and sounds amazing. Big, cinematic film score sounds pour from this synth with ease which is why nearly every Hollywood music studio has one."

Korg KR-55 rhythm machine

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Red Roland Sh-101 SN 362170

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haQ attaQ - Halloween Special [featuring Laplace, VHS FX maker]


Published on Oct 31, 2014 Jakob Haq

Spotted this one on disschord.

"In this haQ attaQ Haloween special I am showing you how I go about creating a scary "movie trailer" using apps and iDevices only. Happy Halloween!

Laplace on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lapla...

Cubasis on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cubas...

100 in 1 MIDI MASTER first test (prototype)


100 in 1 MIDI MASTER first test (prototype) from Cat Full of GHOSTS on Vimeo.

"here is me patching together a fader for filter cutoff and an LDR for noise volume"

Update: some additional info from the creator: "I've been working on a modular synth that outputs midi, rather then audio. Its called the "100 in 1 Midi Master", the idea is you can build midi controllers on the fly, its got a ton of logic chips on it so you can build everything from sequencers, to chaotic random midi machines."

PPG WaveMapper 2 Analyzer Tutorial


Published on Oct 31, 2014 WPalmWT

"A little tutorial on how to analyse samples in the PPG WaveMapper 2"

The Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2- Dual Filters


Published on Oct 31, 2014 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the two filters present in the Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2 synthesizer.

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http://www.patreon.com/automaticgainsay"

All parts here.

Dave Smith Pro 2s on eBay
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