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ARP Axxe Monophonic Analog Synthesizer SN 1455

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Drumatix | Fresh Sounds

Roland Zenbeats

"Drum up some drama with the latest Drumatix drum pack! These 100 drum loops, 10 patterns, four kits with various effects, and 36 one-shots are sampled from the classic analog Roland TR-606. Hype up your vibe with an included 606 inspired color scheme and bring the ruckus with your rhythms.

Now available in the Zenbeats store: https://www.roland.com/us/products/ze...
#Roland #Zenbeats #TR606"

Cereal Instruments - 'mesh' (EXPLANATION & DEMO)

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"(TO SKIP PAST EXPLANATION STRAIGHT TO DEMO: 1:27 )
'Mesh' is allows you to passively, mix, mult and attenuate in a small 8hp size.

Available soon on our reverb shop. [find their modules here]

NOTES:
Note 1 - 'mesh' is fully passive. Whilst this means that the mults are not suitable for pitch or sometimes triggers (where a buffered mult is needed), it means that it doesn't take up a power slot, it's skiff friendly, and a very low cost and easy DIY build at just 24 componants.
Note 2 - 'mesh' is suitable for both audio and cv signals.
Note 3 - What colour should production model knobs be? Answer in the comments below."

via Reverb

"Multi Utility Passive Eurorack Routing Solution

'Mesh' allows you to passively, mix, mult and attenuate in a small 8hp size.

At its core, 'mesh' is 6 attenuators. However, each row's set of 3 inputs are normalled together so that it can act as an attenuatable passive mult.
Also, each column has it's top output normalled to the bottom, allowing you to mix the top and bottom rows when nothing is plugged into the top.

This means 'mesh' can be, for example:

6 attenuators // two attenuated three-way mults (that can be mixed or separate) // one three-way mult and three attenuators // two dual input mixers and two attenuators

*to name a few :) *

Additionally, 'mesh' is fully passive. Whilst this means that the mults are not suitable for pitch (where a buffered mult is needed), it means that it doesn't take up a power slot, it's skiff friendly and makes for a great quick or beginner DIY build.

-As it is passive, it is recommended that 'mesh' is only used with professionally produced modules. We cannot be held responsible for any damage to products."

Also available as a DIY kit.

Cereal Instruments THUMP // Vactrol Based LPG & VCA with distortion (Eurorack module)

Note this is the first Cereal Instruments post on the site.

"'thump' is a versatile vactrol LPG & VCA with distortion. 'Thump' allows you to send two signals through a gritty vactrol amp with low pass gate modes & plenty of gain pre & post distortion."

It's also available as a DIY kit. The following is the build video:

And an overview by DivKid:

DivKidVideo

"Here’s the new THUMP Eurorack module from Cereal Instruments. It’s a 6HP Vactrol based LPG / VCA with added distortion and character. A rotary switch let’s you select VCA mode and 3 increasingly steep filtering options. There’s two inputs with a crossfader, CV input for the gate level and a make up gain control. It distorts and adds a quirky character easily but backing off amp CV and gain lets you clean things up.

TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS

00:00 Hello & patch previews

00:44 What is Thump?

01:52 RAW sound demo

03:02 Dirty Thump bass + cymbals

04:23 Cleaner sound demo

05:18 Crossfader response, pushing into distortion and soft audio rate modulation

6:11 Adding character to wavetables & Krell patches

07:18 Adding THUMP to your drums & beats

08:10 Thump as a distortion & VCA tremolo for synths

09:28 Feedback patch - squeal central!

09:44 No input sounds for FX beds & textures"

VXXY DCM8 Digital Chiptune Drum Machine : PATTERN EDIT & PLAY

Masaki Takada

Just a Minute - Moog Subharmonicon #3

Stefan Tretau

ArpoLoop # Clang

tonylight

"arpoloop metallic like sound"

SWTP Psych Tone vintage synthesizer composing machine 1972

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OFR

"This is a cool box. The Psych-Tone were a featured article in Popular Electronics, and offered as a kit from SouthWest Technical Products. This has tempo, pitch, volume controls. Plus a lot of other knobs and switches to reprogram the system. Attack Decay Sustain sort of work, but it's more oriented toward musical note improvisation than synthesis. There are many switches and knobs for pattern control, etc. I believe the manual/article is still online.

I added reverb to the sound of the box."

Note, it's actually SWTPC. You can see the small c in previous posts here. I thought this might be an auction demo, but I only found the listing below of another one. If this one does go up and I see it, I'll post it.

An intersting side not is there were a ton of other SWTPC products. SWTPC stood for Southwest Technical Products Corporation. You can find some info on them on Wikipedia.

via this auction

"For your consideration is the extremely rare SWTP Psych-Tone Composer-Synthesizer. The unit seems to work fine, though the output on the internal speaker is very low. The external output works fine.

Please see our other listings. All proceeds from sales here go to keep the Vintage Synthesizer Museum open during this time of social distancing.
Thanks. Keep safe and healthy.

The Psych Tone was an early electronic music algorithmic composer and synthesizer presented in the February 1971 issue of Popular Electronics Magazine. It uses a 6-bit , to produce a repeating pseudo-random sequence up to 63 notes long. Three taps are made off the shift register, those are weighted, and summed to drive a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator to produce a pitch. Then an envelope is applied.

The Psych Tone is incredibly rare. It was a complex project, not many people built them, and it is difficult to find a working unit today. And that's a shame, because this was a remarkable device and we can learn much from it. So I recreated the Psych Tone in software, from the schematics, so it can be appreciated."

Pic of the backside inside below.

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Meet CRAFTsynth 2 0

Modal Electronics

You can find additional posts featuring CRAFTsynth 2.0 here.

"Incorporating the power of 8 wavetable oscillators, CRAFTsynth 2.0 is an exciting modern monophonic synthesiser, not confined to just ‘mono synth’ sounds. With its complex and rich sonic spectrum, CRAFTsynth 2.0 produces modern and contemporary synthesiser sounds for new-school musicians, performers, sound designers and producers.

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