Ruby Red Waldorf Q+ Analog Filter Synthesizer

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"One of the most exotic synthesizers ever made, and only ever made in small batches. The pinnacle of virtual analog + real analog. With 16 discrete real analog VCFs onboard, and apparently incredibly difficult to produce, this is an instrument that is likely never to be attempted again by a sane manufacturer.

The original Ruby Red Q+ was made at a time when Waldorf was on top of their game, before the company crashed and resurfaced in 2006 with the infamously buggy Q+ Phoenix version that lived a sketchy life before being discontinued permanently in 2010.

I am not sure how many Q+ were ever produced - maybe a couple hundred? I believe this is the 50th unit made based on serial number sticker & power-on display message. So again, a good unit made early on before Waldorf ran into problems.

This unit is very stable compared to my own experiences with later Phoenix units - no doubt the reason why the Ruby Reds are the more sought-after. Every now and then (especially after moving the synth around after extended periods of non-use) I have to run the onboard analog filter module (AFM) tests and tuning routine to get the VCFs nice and tight with each other, but after that it stays great.

Super exotic, super-unique sounding, and in super shape!"

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Vintage Korg Trident Analog Synthesizer

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Sequential Circuits Prophet VS Rack SN 0404 Restored with 2 RAM Carts & Extras

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"Very Rare and Great Condition everything works Certificate of Restoration from Wine Country Productions included with Manual, 2 RAM Cartridges and Preliminary Service Data with Schematics."

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Korg MonoPoly & Nord Lead 4 improvisation

Published on Dec 10, 2014 Robert Engstrand

BugBrand Modular - December 10, 2014

Published on Dec 10, 2014

"Short jam with ENV1 module for synth sound, SYN2B + DD3 for bass drum & distortion, PRC2B for hihat, SEQ1 + SEQ1X for clock & sequencing, CLK2A divisions, PRC1 delay."

BugBrand Modular - Patch 05

Published on Dec 10, 2014 batchas

"E350 Morphing Terrarium + PRC3A State variable filter = synth sound
SYN2B Quad sine = bass drum
PRC2B Noise crusher = claps
PRC1 PT delay + CTL2 Joystick for time control = effect

SEQ1 Sequencer hub + SEQ1X Sequencer slave + CLK2A Divisions + CLK3A Triple logic gate + UTL6B Active switches"

Tristan Perich Releases “1-Bit Symphony” Reprint + Companion Art Book “0.01s”

"Celebrating the five-year reprint of 1-Bit Symphony, Tristan Perich releases companion art book: 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of 1-Bit Symphony

In 2005, Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Music was the first album released as a self-contained electronic circuit. His 2009 followup, 1-Bit Symphony, was called “sublime” by New York Press and rated “high-brow” and “brilliant” by New York Magazine, and quickly sold out its first pressing. To celebrate its 5-year anniversary, 1-Bit Symphony is back in stock in its original hardware format, now on Perich’s own imprint Physical Editions. In conjunction with the reprint, Perich is publishing 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of 1-Bit Symphony, a conceptual art book that exposes the computational processes behind the album.

1-Bit Symphony is a dazzlingly low-fi electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. A complete electronic circuit utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code, to manifest data as sound. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “Its oscillations have an intense, hypnotic force and a surprising emotional depth.” The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software.

0.01s, Perich's new companion to 1-Bit Symphony, is an impressive synthesis of art and computation in book form, giving a tangible mass to the code behinds its music. Digging even deeper into the basic operations of computation, 0.01s captures the inner workings of 1- Bit Symphony over the first hundredth of a second after it is switched on. In just 0.01 seconds, its processor executes 80,000 computational cycles, enough information to fill a 695-page book with austere tables of numbers and machine language, becoming a visual meditation on the internal mechanics of computation.
Tristan Perich's (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as "an austere meeting of electronic and organic." His award winning work coupling 1-bit electronics with traditional forms in both music and visual art has been presented around the world, from Sonar and Ars Electronica to MoMA and bitforms gallery."

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The Last Benjolin of 2014

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"The Benjolin is a standalone synthesizer designed by Rob Hordijk from the Netherlands. It contains two oscillators (one LFO and one VCO), a voltage controlled filter and a circuit called a “Rungler”, which allows chaotic cross-modulation possibilities between the different parts of the circuit. Hordijk refers to the Benjolin as a circuit which has been “bent by design.”

These hand-made Macumbista Benjolins (produced under licensed agreement with Rob Hordijk) have been further customized with a patchbay, which can be used to interface with other modular synthesizers or to setup further control voltage feedback systems within the Benjolin itself, attenuators on the three control voltage input and LEDs displaying the internal state of the Rungler."

Moog Gold

Published on Dec 10, 2014 Ebotronix

Moog 4x Freqbox (chords), Prodigy, Taurus2(bass), Voyager,
B Murf, CP251 ,MP 201, VX351
Buchla 281e (Kenton Pro 2000 gate),292e (LPG for freqboxes)
Kenton Pro 2000 (Poly Mode 4 Freqs ), Pro Solo, Pro Solo mk 2
Rane SM 26
Rocktron Rack Interface
Yamaha KX 25, MCS 2
Mackie "the mixer"
FX: Akai MFC 42, Lexicon MPX 100, PCM 90, TC M one XL
Ultrabeat drum
vid # 1198

INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X - Synth Spotting with Pheonix

Published on May 28, 2014 - Jun 5, 2014 Noisey

Some synth spotting with Phoenix in via Cammy Cairney: "Wonderful transparent use of synths in the studio (in all four parts)"

Bankrupt! - INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X. - Part 1/4
Don't - INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X. - Part 2/4
Bourgeois - INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X. - Part 3/4
Chloroform - INITIALS P.H.O.E.N.I.X. - Part 4/4

PPG wave 2.2 "Driving"

"(c) 2014 vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound

all sounds: PPG wave 2.2 Synthesizer (1982)
drums: KORG KR-55B
recording: multi track
fx: reverb and delay"