Rare ZW BASSMACHINE Vintage Synth

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"Looking online ZW Electronics is a Swiss/Italian company with not much history behind it and the "Bassmachine" was the only synth to have been commercially available in small numbers.

The instrument has a two-octave keyboard, an octave switch, tune, envelope controls and second oscillator switch with Detune.
This comes with 10 preset sounds with no much control over any of them.

The filter design is a Moog-style transistor ladder type filter, clearly identifiable on the circuit board unclear whether official.

A fantastic synth worthy of a museum or any studio and the "BASSMACHINE" standout text alone draws its own attention.
Search #zwbassmachine on instagram and you will see this very one played back in 2015!

A word brandished pretty loosely is rare, but this is no exception you will be hard pushed to find anything on this extremely rare monosynth and all mentions online or of anything non-working! Schematics are non-existent and this one is the only one of approx 100 that were made."

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Yamaha TX816 with 8 TF1 modules

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"The TX816 is a monster of DX and FM digital synthesis. It is a unique system in that it is a rack unit that could take up to eight TF1 modules. A TF1 module is basically a DX7 condensed down to a single circuit board with almost no front panel controls. Definitely designed for use with external hardware and software controllers the TX816 allows you to easily carry around up to eight DX7s! Software such as MOTU Unisyn, Emagic SounDiver, or even another DX7 can be used to program the sounds in each module via MIDI."

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KORG MS-10 Used Synthesizer SN 131312

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"The item is in excellent condition for its age.
There are some minor wear/marks on the body.
Basic fuctions work correctly.It sounds great!"

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LEPLOOP V2 ANALOG GROOVE-BOX / SYNTHESIZER

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"HAND MADE ITALIAN GROOVE-BOX / "ACID" SYNTH. DESIGNED FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES."

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-CALC- New Rig - Novation Circuit, Circuit Mono Station, Peak and Elektron Digitakt

Published on Jun 23, 2017 -CALC-

"Headphones or speakers will give the best results for this one.
Well...this feels like a special combination, one I intend to explore thoroughly, it's definitely my new live set-up.
Circuit is the master clock and sequences Peak's notes. Also used for super quick beat making.
Digitakt is an incredible sampler, easiest Elektron to use so far and is very yielding.
Circuit Mono Station is a thing to behold it is so versatile and crazy but still comes up with the goods time and time again. Minimal use with just a couple of Sine basses here but it still sits really well.
Peak... what can I say?... it is a masterpiece in my humble opinion (which also has a slight bias :o).
The Digitakt and Circuit are running through a MIDI merge into Peak so they can both control it, Circuit handling the notes, Digitakt taking care of CC other MIDI commands, in fact the very beginning of this track is the Peak sequenced with a sequence of program change messages and recorded into the Digitakt sampler.
It's a pretty endless and fun cycle."

Lightfinger Future Frontiers Patches For Novation Circuit - Part 2

Published on Jun 23, 2017 Lightfinger

"Here are a few more sketches showcasing some patches from my Future Frontiers Patch Collection for Novation Circuit. The collection contains 46 new patches suitable for many musical styles.

The patches are available for purchase at https://isotonikstudios.com/product/f...

Purchase now and receive my Future Retro Sample Set Collection as a free bonus! I am using my Planet X Sample Set in this video.

These jams were recorded directly to a Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP and have no additional processing.

All of my Launch Control XL templates can be downloaded for free from my website here: https://www.lightfinger.net/novation-..."

Part 1 here.

DIGITAKT - Sampling nature sounds, resampling and recording a trippy beat

Published on Jun 23, 2017 Kablehead

-Digibeat 02-

Elektron Digitakt
Korg Volca Kick
Zoom H2

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Working on "Analog House & Deep House Provider" Soundbank Part 2

Published on Jun 23, 2017 Sound Provider

"Working again on 'Analog House & Deep House Provider' Soundbank
Drums by Yocto and MfbTanzbar
Bass by Studio Electronics Se1x
Synth by Elektron Analog Four and Modular

Check our Previous soundbank here: http://www.sound-provider.eu/"

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Amazing analog ROLAND JX-3P vs Darth NoiseLab - spacesounds & PG-200

Published on Jun 23, 2017 NoiselabCH

"Meeting vintage ROLAND JX-3P & the programmer PG-200, exploring sounds from deep space and deep sea, some mad house sounds, psychedelic fun.

The ROLAND JX-3P is a 6-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer with 2 DCO's per voice, resonant high- and lowpass filter, on board chorus and 128-step sequencer. Usual substractive synthesis with option to cross-modulate the 2 DCOs, resulting in unusual metallic analog sounds.

As most analog synths from the early 1980's the ROLAND JX-3P had commercially no chance against the new digital synths, e.g. Yamaha DX7. Still somewhat underrated, I think it's a great synth with it's own character, probably less fat than the Junos (due to the software generated LFO and ADSR the JX-3P uses), however much more versatile in my view. At least with PG-200 or another suitable controller."

Elektron Digitakt and Analog Heat // Sampling and Beat making

Published on Jun 23, 2017 Miles Cosmo

"I decided to sample my Analog Heat into the Digitakt as it glitched out, I then messed around with it and added some beats. Pretty weird textures but I think it sounds cool :)"

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