Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Rev 3.3 SN 4726

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"Perfect functional condition with midi and 120 programs plus manual, spare knobs, new badges, data cassette and the survival kit from wine country.

It also has new key bushing and plays like a dream."

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ROLAND D50 Linear Arithmetic Synthesizer

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Roland D-10 MULTI TIMBRAL LINEAR SYNTHESIZER with PG-10 programmer and case SN 905773

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Synthesizer Roland D-10 [HD] [1080p]

Published on Jan 27, 2015 Pixeltruppen

Roland D-10s on eBay

"This is the first test after repair of the motherboard. Some keys do not yet work. The problem I will fix in the next time. The synthesizer was tested with our own programmed sounds. These are not preset sounds.

Pixeltruppen Websites

• https://soundcloud.com/pixeltruppen
• http://pixeltruppen.jimdo.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/Pixeltru...
• http://www.reverbnation.com/pixeltruppen
• https://www.facebook.com/Pixeltruppen
• http://pixeltruppen.bandcamp.com/

Thank you for watching!"

New Abstrakt Instruments Avalon Bassline - First Look - Extensive Video Demo

Published on Jan 27, 2015 Abstrakt Instruments

"This is a demo of the new Avalon Bassline showcasing the raw sound of the TB-303 along with some of the additional controls to quickly show what the synth can do.
Apologies ahead of time (from Brian) for those of you who get annoyed or distracted by the 909 accompaniment.
The demo is Avalon and TR-909 straight to Steinberg MR-816x, no signal processing."

Avalon Bassline - First Look (Mono)

Published on Jan 29, 2015

"This is a demo of the new Avalon Bassline showcasing the raw sound of the TB-303 along with some of the additional controls to quickly show what the synth can do.
The demo is in Mono, there were some potential issues with the stereo version."

Prophet 12 Signal path presentation, jam

Published on Jan 27, 2015 cuckoomusic .

"Carson Day from Dave Smith Instruments helped demo the Prophet 12 for me, and also did the camera work when I played it. This has been around for a few years, but it was the first time for me to get a lengthy hands on time. It's a digital oscillator, analog filter beast, with the precision of digital, and the power of analog. Some of the patches really spring to life, showing the great depths of this synth.

Thanks for the help Carson!"

Starr Labs Z7S Ztar - Guitar Synthesizer Midi Controller Keytar

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"Up for auction at Low Reserve is the Starr Labs Z7S Guitar Synthesizer Midi Controller. It is in 100% Operational Condition and excellent Cosmetic Condition, with just a few minor scuffs which are nearly undetectable. The Strap Nuts were upgraded to Locking Schallers. This model is loaded with every option listed below. In fact, the Breath Controller tubes are still in their unopened packaging. Also included is the Power Supply, Soft Case, Owners Manual, Tuning Tools, and Owners Manual/Driver on CD.

o 6 Velocity-sensitive String Triggers
o 4-Way programmable Joysitck
o 6 Touch Pads TCA
o Ribbon Controller
o Programmable Mod Wheel Pot
o Ribbon Controller w/ 2 added touch pads
o Unlimited string and finger board tunings
o 32 Mappable Zones
o Programmable Chording System
o Arpeggiator
o Sequencer
o Volume Pedal Port
o Sustain Pedal Port
o MIDI and USB i/o
o Power Supply

If you’ve stumbled upon this auction and are not familiar with the Starr Labs line of Ztar products, please see the manufacturers description below.

The new Ztar Z7S MIDI guitar from Starr Labs offers unsurpassed ultra high-speed MIDI control for today’s guitarists. The Ztar differs from other guitar synths in that it provides the industry’s only glitch-free, 6-string x 24 fret touch-sensitive keyed-fingerboard; ideal for playing and controlling all aspects of synthesizers, samplers, and sound modules.

Being truly polyphonic, the Z7S can simultaneously play multiple notes per-string per fret. The cutting edge touch-sensing keyed-fingerboard has been developed with 32 separate programmable zones, each with its own channel, voice, transposition, tuning, hammer-ons and sensitivity settings. The strings have programmable tunings, and each key on the entire fingerboard may be tuned independently as well. The embedded arpeggiator as well as the programmable chording system may be assigned to separate fingerboard zones, layers and/or frets . This fingerboard system is highly suited to Drum mapping when percussion or loop playback is called for, or composition when accompanying chords are needed.

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≈ Moedars ≈ PO-12 + TB-303 | PO-12 + OP-1 syncing demo

Published on Jan 26, 2015 Martijn Moedars

"I've just received my fresh PO-12 from France.

So first I clipped off the hanger, find a remote control for batteries and triggered it with the 606 low tom to see if C'est Possible. Le answer: Yep.

Because of the inspirational fun factor i've ended up making this video with my first (accidental) latinish PO-12 pattern.. some 303 patterns i've made last night, and sneaked in a bit of 606 in the mix.
And hé, while i was at it.. some own drawings to spice it up a bit.

PO-12: Bassdrum, ticky thing, hi-hat & dirty house bleep thingy
TR-606: snare
TB-303: just being a 303"

PO-12 + OP-1 syncing demo

Published on Jan 27, 2015

"day 2 with the PO-12.. checking out some syncing with the OP-1 mothership.

- Recorded the PO-12 click to the OP-1
- Then I've cropped it in to the synth engine.
- Playable clicky goes out to the PO-12
- PO-12 in slave function 4
- and voila: Boem pap Boem pap, bleep, bleep..

Pioneer of these tactics (cheers!): Darenager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl-wN..."

Playing an MKS 7 with an Accordion - Moedars ♫ Roland Super Quartet MKS 7 power ♫

Published on Oct 25, 2014 Martijn Moedars

"As an accordion player and 80's analog synthesizer enthousiast I came across the Roland MKS-7 Super Quartet. My mind was blown, because it receives 4 midi channels and the Roland V accordion sends out 4 midi channels on the same configuration.

the 4 midi channels:

Drums - TR 707 (sort of)
Bass - Monophonic Bass synthesizer
Chord - Juno 106 architecture
Melody - also Juno 106 architecture

As a comix maker I really enjoy the absurd humor of this combination. So I hope it made you smile too.

Have a nice day :)"

Percussa: How are Wireless AudioCubes Different from Classic AudioCubes?

Another interesting bit of insight from Percussa via their newsletter.  This one was from Jan 18.

"Hi, Bert here, designer and inventor of AudioCubes. Sometimes, people ask me what the difference is between the AudioCubes we are selling today and the ones I originally released back in 2007. The AudioCubes today are called 'wireless' AudioCubes, while the ones from 2007 are 'classic' AudioCubes. But what does that mean?

In this newsletter I've decided to go a bit deeper into how the modern AudioCubes you can buy today work under the hood, and how they are different from the original AudioCubes I designed back in 2004, and which were released in 2007.

How do Classic AudioCubes work?

Originally I had designed the AudioCubes to forward data between each other, using infrared communication ports. Each AudioCube has 4 of these ports located around the AudioCube, which allow AudioCubes to detect each other as well as detect distance to your hands and fingers. This generates MIDI trigger notes or continous control messages respectively, so you can start and stop sounds and control effect parameters in real time.

In 2008-2009 we released a firmware and MIDIBridge update and also released the OSC server for AudioCubes, which not only allows AudioCubes to detect each other but also FORWARD data to each other, effectively creating a wireless network of AudioCubes, where data is forwarded to one of the cubes, which stays connected to your computer. We introduced the TOPOLOGY mode for the AudioCubes, which allows you to get MIDI note triggers and continous controllers at the same time.

How do Wireless AudioCubes work?
However, I realized we wanted to offer higher data rates than was possible using the cube to cube infrared communication network, and so I started designing a wireless module, a hardware upgrade, which would allow all the wireless cubes to have a DIRECT connection to the central cube which stays connected to your computer. This would allow the cubes to communicate in a star network which offers much higher data rates :-) The wireless module has a custom designed protocol on board I worked on for several years, and which uses the 2.4GHz wireless radio band. Rather than using bluetooth or wifi, we designed our own protocol, because the needs of professional musicians are very different from the needs of the wide consumer market.

We started offering the wireless module to a small group of test users first, and worked on improving the firmware for this hardware update over the past years. This hardware upgrade has been shipping in all new AudioCube systems over the past two years, and going forward we will ONLY sell AudioCubes featuring this hardware wireless module, and all software will assume you have this module in your AudioCubes. The classic AudioCubes without the module will still keep working using the old software, but to take advantage of the new software including SYNTHOR, the upcoming synthesizer for AudioCubes, you will need to have this module in your AudioCubes :-)

You can see two photos of AudioCubes hardware below. One photo is the classic AudioCube PCB WITHOUT the wireless module, and the other is the AudioCube PCB WITH the wireless module, which is how all hardware is built today.

AudioCube PCB WITH the wireless module

AudioCube PCB WITHOUT the wireless module,

Wireless Module

15 wireless AudioCubes transmitting cube detection and distance information in real time

We're in the final stages of testing a big firmware and MIDIBridge update I've worked on over the past two years, day and night, which leverages this new module to the maximum. It's really exciting stuff - imagine a star network with one master cube and up to 15 wireless AudioCubes, all capable of sensing hands as well as cubes, transmitting cube detection and distance information, all in real time, and everything is MIDI mappable!

Imagine automatically patching modular software synths as cubes detect each other, and changing instrument parameters in real time as cubes get closer and further away.

A few of the AudioCube power users who are currently testing the BETA are saying it's the most exciting update they've seen in the past few years.

I hope this clears up what the difference is between the AudioCubes we ship today, which all include the high performance wireless radio, and the classic AudioCubes from 2007 which do not include this hardware upgrade.

I look forward to create more firmware and software updates in 2015 and to push AudioCubes to the next level together with all of you!

Connect with Bert, AudioCubes designer, to learn more!

Thanks for reading this newsletter, and don't hesitate to connect with me on Facebook, LinkedIn or via email at bert@percussa.com.

I'm happy to answer all your questions about AudioCubes and consider your feature requests for the AudioCubes software :-)

Bert Schiettecatte"