ARP SYNTHESIZER PROTOTYPE 16 Voice Electric Piano Keyboard

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Pic of the inside and tradeshow image futher below. Note the ARP logo on front. Makes me wonder how many font styles they used. There's the classic ARP Tonus logo as seen in these ARP 2500 modules, the standard trebel clef, and the regular block font.

"First, a few words about price. This is a one-of-a-kind item that's a very interesting piece of ARP Synthesizer history. We have no idea what it's worth and would love to hear from anyone who's qualified to make such determinations. We’re listing it here in the hope that we’ll be able to determine its actual value and find a new home for it. If you want to pay our asking price, we'd be thrilled, but we’re open to much much more reasonable offers.

This is believed to be a prototype of the ARP 16 Voice Electronic Piano. It's the unit ARP showed off at trade shows. We have another that is believed to be the first prototype that we will possibly list later. But back to this one... It’s built into a black wooden cabinet made to look like a proper piano. It was stored in its road case in a barn for many years and smells musty. There is evidence of mildew or mold on the top cover. This unit is currently in its original crate in storage. It’s too big and heavy for us to move around without risking injury (which we won't do). The photos shown here were taken by the person we got it from, before transporting it to one of our storage spaces.

This item is being offered untested and un-inspected and strictly as-is, with the understanding that whoever ends up with it will likely need to have it properly restored by a qualified professional, as one would want to do with just about any unmaintained vintage synths of its type and age these days. Although we have an amazing tech who can fix just about any vintage synth given enough time, there are no guarantees that this item can be restored or that it even worked to begin with, since the original owner passed away. It’s gone directly from storage space to storage space since he passed.

If we can find them, we will include the matching piano bench and sheet music stand shown in the trade show photo. We’re pretty sure we know where they are, but that storage space is unreachable at the moment.

Ancient trade show photo for reference (not included)."

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Prism Circuits QUASAR System Now Available

Video previously posted here.

via Prism Circuits:

The QUASAR system was inspired by the unpredictable nature of black holes and exploring the thoughts of getting lost in space by immersing yourself into a system that guides you in many unknown directions to force one to patch in ways they never thought possible.

With no sequencer in the system, users are forced to think outside the box to create melody and patterns. Having a lot of random voltages within the system allows this instrument to be a force of its own when it comes to generative patching techniques and moving compositions that can morph in the time domain.

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a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies.

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Meet the New Etherwave Theremin

The Octopus Project | Moog Etherwave video upload by Moog Music Inc

"To debut the new Etherwave Theremin, Austin-based electronica group The Octopus Project performs their original track 'I Saw the Bright Shinies' in a performance filmed in the Moog Sound Lab.

In this performance, Etherwave Theremin takes the stage as both a lead instrument and a CV controller for the Moog Matriarch paraphonic semi-modular analog synth (as a creative way to play its filter). To complement the two distinct theremin applications you see and hear, multi-instrumentalists Yvonne Lambert, Spencer Stephenson, Toto Miranda, and Josh Lambert reimagine the 2007 song using vintage and modern Moog synthesizers: Moog One, Prodigy, Matriarch, Grandmother, Mother-32, DFAM, Subharmonicon.

More about The Octopus Project: http://www.theoctopusproject.com"

via Moog Music

"For over 60 years, Moog theremins have captured the imagination of players and audiences alike. Most recently over the last two and a half decades, Etherwave Standard and Etherwave Plus have set the bar for performance theremin design. Now, the all-time best-selling theremin models get an update to become simply Etherwave Theremin.

The new Etherwave Theremin focuses on the preservation of Bob Moog’s legendary theremin circuits to retain all the charm and character that made its predecessors so unique and sought after, while adding a host of new benefits:

Improved bass response and stability in the lowest registers

Updated antenna connections to enable quick assembly and easy removal for travel

Quick-release mic stand adapter for attaching and detaching the instrument from mic stands

Mute control for setting the instrument into a standby mode or used for “pitch preview” via headphones

CV output integration from Etherwave Plus (Gate Out, Pitch Out, Vol. Out) for connecting with other modular, Eurorack, and CV-controlled instruments"

Sacha Ketterlin live @ Diskoutal #3

video upload by Sacha Ketterlin

Also see Sacha Ketterlin - live @SUPERBOOTH21

"https://diskoutal.fr

Unfortunately I couldn't attend the meeting, but I recorded a live performance in the studio which was streamed at the third edition of Diskoutal.

https://sachaketterlin.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/sacha-ketterlin"

Make Noise 0-Coast: 50 Custom Patches. Bass, Pluck, Lead, FX

video upload by Anton Anru

"Welcome to the soundset for a semi-modular analog synthesizer - Make Noise 0-coast. It is a collection of 50 presets that includes: 16 Plucks, 14 Basses, 16 Leads, 4 FXs.

There is a wide range of timbres inside the pack: simple and complex, soft and aggressive, musical and experimental, harmonic and inharmonic, playable and modular-style.

📚 Get the soundset: https://bit.ly/3EbL3n6

The sounds are suitable for many genres of electronic music: Techno, Ambient, House, Deep, Progressive, Trance, Minimal, IDM, Downtempo, Lounge, Chill Out, Electronica, Dark/Noise, Industrial, and many others.

Each page contains notes that explain how the patch works, what parameters worth tweaking during the playback, how to develop the timbre during a performance. If you make all the settings consciously and try the things mentioned in the notes, you will learn lots of things about the synth and discover its true depth.

To recreate these patches, you need up to 11 patch cords.
There are audio examples of all patches inside the folder with the soundset.

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Yamaha SK-15 w/ Hard Case

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"The Yamaha SK15 is a 49 key, 7 voice analog ensemble synthesizer, featuring organ, string, and poly-synth sections, brilliance (organ and string sections), release, tremolo, sustain and volume pedal inputs, and vibrato. The synth section also features a slow attack button and a resonant low pass filter with dedicated ADSR envelope. The organ section features 7 stops."

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Northern Light Modular Buchla Format Modules

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"Buy any 2 used Northern Light Modular modules and receive a free h-Bracket."
"The h series modules require a h bracket to be mounted in a 1U space"

You can find videos featuring Northern Light Modular in previous posts here.

Pictured:
Voltage Circus – Model hVC
Trommelmaschine – Model hTM
Morphing Mixer – Model hMM
Electric Dompteur – Model hED
Time and Triggers – Model hTT
Classic Oscillator – Model hCO

The Voltage Circus consists of two rows of 3 voltage inputs and outputs that can be chained together.

Voltages can be added , subtracted or an offset can be applied per channel.

The inputs and outputs are buffered and can be connected with shorting bars.

A switch limits each rom to provide 100% or 33% to the mixer channel to make subtraction possible or prevent clipping.

One use of the hVC is for example transposing of sequences, adding subtle animation to pitch signals or mix wild CVs to provide complex noise sources

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 3000 REV B SN 0150

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"Sequential Circuits Prophet 3000 REV B 4MB.
Very rare Rev B version with expanded memory and lots of extras. Included is a large library of factory and custom sounds.

New LCD Screen
New Remote Panel Switches
RAM expanded to 4MB
Gotek USB floppy emulator with Flash Floppy v3.3, OLED screen mod, rotary knob mod, and speaker mod
SCSI2SD Drive
Custom Library
Factory Library
Manual
Schematics
This unit has been extensively restored and upgraded.
The unit has a brand new LCD screen. All the remote panel switches have been replaced and work flawlessly. The memory has been expanded to its full 4MB.

The Gotek drive and the SCSI2SD drive offer the best workflow configuration. The SCSI2SD drive allows you to load an entire bank/project of sounds into memory in seconds. The Gotek drive allows you to add individual presets to the current bank that's in memory. You cannot load individual presets from the SCSI2SD banks, only full banks can be loaded. Therefore it's best to keep your entire library on the Gotek drive and your working and backup projects on the SCSI2SD drive."

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Oberheim OB-1

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"Oberheim OB-1 just went through service and completely overhauled. Amazing beast, first presets synth, 1978, less then 600 made of this version. Works flawlessly, no scratchy pots both Osc in tune, unit show some age but sounds amazing and works perfectly."

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Vintage 8 Voice Oberheim OB-X Synthesizer

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"This 8-voice Oberheim OB-X sounds amazingly fat and warm and is ready to find a good home. This synth has just been extensively serviced by Synthchaser in March 2022 with:

Power supply rebuild – new capacitors, trimmers, upgraded bridge rectifiers
All tantalum capacitors replaced – All failure prone tantalum capacitors replaced throughout the entire synth
Voice cards serviced – All polarized capacitors and trimmers replaced, voice cards calibrated
Keybed refurbished – new bushings, keys ultrasonically cleaned, bus bars and j-wires cleaned and adjusted
Many connectors replaced
Factory patches loaded
There are a fair amount of scratches on the paint–see photos for details. This is the final revision of OB-X which includes the Oberheim Computer Interface for connecting a DSX sequencer. All voice cards are original, no counterfeit or clone cards are in this synth."

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