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Monday, October 05, 2020

Rare CRUMAR DS-1 // Less than 200 made in 1978 SN 28

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There was also a Crumar DS-2.

"One of the very few remaining Crumar DS-1 on the planet, serial number 28. Recently serviced and recapped, this impressive monosynth works like a charm and looks great - far better than any other DS-1 / DS-2 available nowaday.

Released in 1978 to compete against the Minimoog, the Crumar DS-1 implemented one of the earliest digitally controlled oscillators (DCO) - if not THE first. In those days this was enough to mark a synth as "Digital Synthesizer" but actually the DS-1 is a fully analog monosynth with analog controlled digital oscillators. A rocksolid synth that can easily genetare fat basses, expressive lead sounds and an unexpected range of percussive/FX sounds.

So Crumar released the DS-1 (their first full-fledged synthesizer) in 1978, more than four years after Korg and Roland began their domination of the low-cost arena. Consequently, and despite its cool sound and features, everybody overlooked the DS-1 and less than 200 units were sold.

The Crumar DS-1 is a dual-oscillator monosynth with a 24dB/octave resonant low-pass filter (inspired by the Minimoog Ladder), one LFO (assignable to oscillators, VCA, VCF and PW), Glide FX, two selectable noise generators and a useful Gate/IN. The front panel has a lot of well organized (and sturdy) knobs and sliders that make the DS-1 a very intuitive machine.

Specifications :

OSC Waveforms : Saw, Tri, Squ, PW (only OSC1)
OSC Parameters : Volume, Pitch, Octave, Manual PW Modulation
Noise : White / Pink + Volume control
LFO Assign : OSC1, OSC2, VCF, VCA, PW (OSC1)
LFO Waveforms : Saw Down, Tri, Squ, Saw Up, S&H, Scaled
LFO Parameters : LFO Delay
VCF : Cutoff, Resonance, ADSR, ADSR Amount
VCA : ADSR, ADSR Amount
Other : Pitch Bend, Glide with Speed Glide / Speed Range
Connections : Out Hi, Out Low, Gate/IN & Gate/OUT (+/-5 Volts)"

Mini Sitting on a Mini

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Minimoog on a Minimoog couch.

"We are restoring this Minimoog Model D serial number 10985, with the NEW OSC board. Pictures are BEFORE the restoration, we'll replace them whenever it is finished.

Things we are doing in this unit:
- Replacement of all electrolytic and tantalum capacitors.
- Restoration of the whole key contact system and installation of brand new bushings
- Full cleaning of the wood, panel, knobs, potentiometers, switches, connectors, etc.
- Replacement of damaged knobs and pointers with original ones.
- Dead zone mod in the pitch bend.
- All three uA726 with heatsinks
- Full calibration as indicated in the service manual."

Moog System 15 w/ Roland System 100m Modules

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"Orginal series Moog system 15: Serial number 8473 manufactured in 1976 at Moog's Trumansburg, NY factory.

The unit powers on but I have not performed a recent sound check. This unit does NOT included the Moog 24db low pass filter. A substitute low pass filter is installed instead. Some of the keyboard keys stick and need to be replaced. An alternative is to use a control voltage converter (not included) with another keyboard. Patch chords not included but are readily available elsewhere since they are standard sized audio patch chords."

Folktek Mobius Harmonizer

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You can find demos of one posted here.

YAMAHA CS15D 37Key Monophonic Synthesizer

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Rhodes (Arp) Chroma w/ CC+ MIDI Upgrade & Stereoping Controller

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Roland Jupiter-8

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EMU Emulator II - The Northstar Library


JMPSynth

"A selection of my favourite pad and choir sounds from the 1980's OMI 3 (Northstar) library for the EMU Emulator II, supplied as CD's loaded via the OMI CDS3 optical media drive or 5.25" floppy disk. Northstar Productions still provide these in the latter format for working EII 5.25" floppy drives.

All sounds played from the EII with only some reverb added:

0.00 Fairlight Moods - P08 Slow Voices
0.34 Fairlight Moods - P02 Lite Link Loop
1.10 Hinson Choir - P05 - Slow Choir
1.50 Expander Pads - P04 Choir
2.22 Vector Vikonic - P01 Volkanic
2.42 Vector Xwang - P13 Bow Xwang
3.15 Vector CLancy - P09 Clacy V Attack
3.55 Megacelli - P04 Swell
4.25 OB8 Saw - P05 Touch Filter
4.53 Vector X Dbl Strings - P0 VX DBL String
5.38 JX8P - P01 Voices
6.35 LA Heaven - P13 Slo Heaven"

Drambo Groovebox Live Performance | haQ box mk VII | haQ attaQ


Jakob Haq

"Here's a live performance featuring my Drambo "haQ box mk VII" Groovebox. Drambo is in my mind one of the absolute best music apps to have come out in 2020. For those of you who dont know, Drambo from BeepStreet is an extremely powerful modular synthesizer, with a simplified routing system and Elektron-esque sequencer all in one. Want to know more bout the "haQ box"? Stay tuned!

Even though this video is highly edited, the performance featured here comes from on single take using two cameras and one iPad screen capture. I've also added in some B-stock footage of me making the custom Sensel morph layout."

See here for details on Drambo Groovebox.

SONICWARE LIVEN 8bit warps : variety of sound&sequence


Masaki Takada

"I created a preset sound and sequence for SONICWARE's 8bit wave memory synthesizer "LIVEN 8bit warps" which has started shipping for Kickstarter Backer.
I hope you can feel the charm of this wonderful synthesizer as much as possible.

enjoy! :)"
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