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Thursday, July 11, 2019

New Digitone DS1000 Ad & the Digitone Teclado 44RT


This is not click bait, I swear! ;) For those looking for new Elektron products though, this is not it. That said, this might be just as interesting. Well, for those that find vintage-synths-long-lost-in-the-annals-of-history interesting, at least.

To the left you will find a ROCK STAR vintage ad for the Digitone DS1000. Below you will find a video for the Digitone Teclado 44RT. How did we come across these gems?

This is actually a follow-up to this post from back in 2011 for a different ad. The description that went with that post stated it was a DS1000 Giannini Programmable polyphonic synthesizer. Turns out it wasn't. According to a new comment from wmoecke in the comments section of the post, "This synth was created and sold exclusively by DIGITONE, a company owned and operated by Mr. Christóvão Batista da Silva. It never had anything at all to do with Gianinni." Gianinni was another Brazilian brand that re-packaged Siel synths as you can see in these previous posts.

I did a quick image search for DIGITONE DS1000 and found this new, old advert for it. See the previous post for the other ad, and some details. I'm guessing the details are correct minus the mislabel for Gianinni of course.

I then did a quick search for Digitone -elektron for other products and found the 44RT video below. Note the logo is the same cursive style Digitone with the ® on the e as on the DS1000.

If anyone knows more about the Digitone brand and any other products they manufactured, synths or other, let us know!

As I did not know the brand was Digitone prior to this post, I created a new label for them below. I'm also giving this post the New Old labels.

It looks like there was a DIGITONE before Elektron.


Teclado Digitone 44RT Published on Jun 4, 2019

This one appears more preset organ synth with rhythm section than synth. What's BLUMP?

Update via Marcelo Self in the comments:

"As far as I know, yes, Giannini had the license from italian companies. They made a Siel DK60 synth, renamed as GS7010 and Crumar string machine. Digitone was a division of Blump ( or vice versa) which made some preset organs, this synthesizer, DS1000, also comparable to the Poly800 ( or Siel DK60, Giannini GS7010) or Suzuki SX, but without the sequencer, and finally, a hybrid of splitable organ with autothythms and synthesizer section, the Poly SS61. They even thought about relese a system to compete with MIDI, based on paralel port, not serial. Specifically the SS61 sounded really good, rhythms , presets and poly synth part, but according to a local seller, were really not durable. Company stopped to make keyboadrs soon and I never heard about them after. Another Brazilian company which made organ with (solo) synthesizer section ( good) was Gambitt. And Gamasonic produced for a while a small 2 and 1/2 octave mono one with really few parameters, something more like a Prosoloist."

And via vito_mf:

Some years ago I bought a beat-up analog preset drum machine from digitone/blump. It need some heavy cleaning and whatnot so I took it to be serviced. The technician got really exited and he saw it. Turns out he worked at Digitone in the 80's. Last week I took it for some maintenance to another technician who ALSO worked at digitone. He told me they used to make robot pool cleaners in the 80's. But stopped because of poor sealing material. He said digitone instruments were not clones, he designed them himself and kept the schematics in a vault. About 5 years ago, by coincidence, I've met Mr. Batista's daughter. She told me some amazing stories: When he learned that R2D2 was operated by an actor with dwarfism he wrote George Lucas proposing to build a actually working robot. George Lucas wrote him back! (declining). He also built the robot who helped removed and discard the radioactive material in Gioânia in the 90's in what was one of the worst atomic incidents in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident). He did it on his own (no commission etc). When he asked for some compensation the government gave him a pat on the back. He went bankrupt soon after.

Todd Barton Launches Patreon Page


Welcome to my Patreon Published on Jul 11, 2019 Todd Barton

Todd Barton is now on Patreon!

"I'm about to launch a Patreon page! Here's the link: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd
Looking forward to seeing you there. All best wishes, Todd"

1970s AP6 Wersi Bass Synthesize

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Yamaha CS01 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer SN 5911 w/ Gig Bag

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"Originally released in 1982, the CS-01 has become a classic choice for thick monophonic bass lines. The simple interface with limited controls makes this a very user friendly unit and features the following specifications:

12db resonant voltage-controlled filter
Triangle, saw, square, pulse, and PWM wave forms
ADSR envelope generator
Glissando & portamento LFO controls"

Oberheim OB-1 / New Programmer / Fully Restored / MIDI

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"The OB-1 Is essentially a programmable SEM with other features found on other synths of the era, including pitch bend and a dedicated LFO."

Oberheim OB-8 W/ Page 2 Graphics & MIDI

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Teisco Synthesizer 110F

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"In the beginning of the 80's Kawai began manufacturing synthesizers under the company name of Teisco. Their early designs resulted in synths like the S110F above. The Synthesizer 110F is an upgraded S60-F, with dual analog VCO's and an updated look. It has a small but usable 37 note keyboard. Classic analog sawtooth, square, and triangle waveforms plus noise are on-board and can be mixed with external sounds run through the 110F's filters and envelopes. The oscillators can be de-tuned for duophonic textures or phatter leads and bass sounds.

There's plenty of modulation ability and classic analog effects in the 110F to really liven up the sound. There's an LFO which can modulate the VCO and VCF and can trigger the EGs. The VCF resonant low pass filter is great too. There's also a VCA section with Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release controls and finally there's a Hi-Pass filter. There is also a portamento effect, a ring modulator, vibrato and sample-and-hold for those classic analog synth effects and tricks! Lots of pretty blinking lights, a sleek and straight-forward layout and very nice analog bass, lead and synth sounds are all a part of the Synthesizer 110F experience."

1979 Dual Algorithmic Oscillator WMAP Buchla Braids - Wavetable Synthesis


Published on Jul 11, 2019 The Galaxy Electric

"This is a tutorial demonstrating the experience of morphing through the wavetable map of the 1979 Dual Algorithmic Oscillator. This modular synthesis module is an adaptation based directly off of the brilliantly designed Braids module by Émilie Gillet of Mutable Instruments.

Here I am scrolling the X and Y axis separately and then together to give a sense of the 256 wavetable timbres achievable with just this one algorithm. The five note sequence is being generated from the Sequential Voltage Source of a 208e BEMI Music Easel. The occasional octave shifts are generated from the 218e Touch Activated Voltage Source. The reverb is the spring reverb from the Easel and the module is using its built-in VCA and Attack/Decay Envelope Generator."

ALM Busy Circuits Squid Salmple // Fast & powerful 8 channel audio and CV sampler in Eurorack


Published on Jul 11, 2019 DivKidVideo

"So here's the Squid Salmple from ALM Busy Circuits. It's an 8 channel Eurorack sampler that can record, mangle, modulate and playback audio or CV. It's fast and immediate with quick on the fly recording options and an easy interface that very quickly became a fast and intuitive way to work with both audio and CV. There's a phenomenal bank of samples that comes with it on the USB stick that's really well put together from a range of artists and sources. You've got 5 outputs, 3 assignable (to multiple destinations) CV inputs, 8 trigger inputs and plenty of control and options. I'd love to hear what you think about the module and the video so leave a comment and let's chat. Skip around with the timing index below if you see fit and cheers for watching!


**TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS**

PLEASE NOTE - all no talking demo patches are entirely dry with the outputs just mixed on the HexMix with level, pan and EQ.

00:00 Hello and video preview

01:28 What is the Squid Salmple? Feature run down.

03:43 Demo patch - bank 01 - 606 drums + lately bass

03:52 Getting started

05:01 Demo patch - bank 02 - 707 drums

05:06 Channel parameters 1 - channels 1-5 (with percussion)

08:15 Demo patch - bank 06 - 808 drums

08:26 Demo patch - bank 07 - 909 drums

08:30 Channel parameters 2 - channels 6-8 (with synth drones)

10:22 Demo patch - bank 08 - CR78 drums

10:28 Demo patch - bank 13 - R70 drums

10:34 Muting

11:10 Demo patch - bank 18 - Linn drum

11:19 CV playback & mangling

14:48 Demo patch - bank 25 - Sash M5N Beats

15:04 The FIRST PATCH I made with the module

17:06 Demo patch - bank 27 - Jack Mumdance drums

17:16 Key combos (mega useful!)

19:25 Demo patch - bank 29 - Jack Mumdance drums

19:32 Demo patch - bank 39 - Sash Beats - jungle tapes

19:38 Choking

21:04 Demo patch - bank 40 - GRM Tools + Microtonic drums

21:14 CV inputs & CV assign, attenuate + offset

24:04 Demo patch - bank 45 - Lauren Flax chords/melody

24:21 How to set up accents

25:35 Demo patch - bank 51 - Sue Zuki sample bank

25:51 How to record samples

27:15 Demo patch - bank 52 - Dungeon Acid Domestic Percussion

27:23 Live sampling on the fly

29:03 Demo patch - bank 54 - NYZ Field Recordings

29:20 Sampling CV (control voltages)

31:02 Demo patch - bank 59 - Yamaha CS80 notes

31:11 Demo patch - bank 64 - Russell Haswell Hordijk Benjolin

31:17 Notes of loading & saving

32:31 Demo patch - bank 66 - Ebcidic Cocoquantus

32:45 Demo patch - bank 67 - Ebcidic Lyra-8

32:53 “Poor mans delay” patch example from the manual

34:20 Demo patch - bank 68 - Drums + Roland SH101

34:29 Cue sets (this is simple yet powerful!)

37:50 Demo patch - bank 75 - Andrew Duff Roland TB303 + drums

** THIS VIDEO WAS SPONSORED BY ALM BUSY CIRCUITS** By sponsoring the video they received a service, which a demonstration video. However they had no control over what was said, patched or used in the video."

SoundsDivine's 'Blush Response' - U-he Repro-5


Published on Jul 11, 2019 SoundsDivine111

"Preview of the presets from the 'Blush Response' soundset for U-he Repro-5

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