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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Redsound Darkstar With Vocoda
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Details:
"Oscillators
Sawtooth and square waves are available for each of the two oscillators, but oscillator two can also be set to a formant oscillator with a limited band of frequencies, white, pink, or blue noise, or one of the external inputs. For each oscillator, pitch and pulse width can be modulated by either one of the envelopes or LFOs, and oscillator two can be offset by as much as 24 semitones (two octaves). The oscillators can also be synced together or detuned by +/-2 semitones. The joystick mixes the levels of the oscillators and also the degree of ring modulation applied to each one. It's a nice feature, but the ring mod is nowhere near the shrieky metallic quality of classic ring modulation. But with no effects onboard, it is still a welcome addition. The modulation routings of the oscillators are what make this section most exciting, but note that the Pulse Width control, and hence Pulse Width Modulation, will only affect the width of square wave oscillators.
Envelopes
Four ADSR knobs control the two envelopes, the first of which is hard-wired to amplitude, and the second is assignable to the filter, pulse width, or oscillator pitch. These four knobs also control the level, panning, tremolo, and portamento of each of the five synth parts. There are also eight levels of velocity sensitivity for the envelopes, so that notes played hard on the MIDI keyboard will open the envelopes more than softly struck notes.
Low-Frequency Oscillators
Kudos goes to the Darkstar's LFOs. Seven shapes -- sawtooth, triangle, square, sine, pulse, sample & hold, and random -- are available for each LFO, and they can be synced to incoming MIDI Clock at 15 different trigger rates, from thirty-second note to four bars. Three knobs control speed, delay time, and shape of the selected LFO. In all, one or both of the LFOs can modulate panning, tremolo, oscillator pitch, pulse width, filter resonance, or filter amount.
Filter
The 12dB per octave filter can be set to lowpass, bandpass, or highpass, or turned off. The resonance can be modulated by the LFOs or envelopes, and a knob controls the level of modulation. Additionally, the filter amount can be modulated by LFO2.
As a bonus, you can set the filter to open more for low notes than high notes and vice versa at several levels of intensity. Filter cutoff and resonance can also be assigned to the joystick for extra expressiveness.
MIDI and Beyond
The five parts of the Darkstar can be all be played on the same MIDI channel by assigning different note values to each part, or each part can be assigned to its own channel. You can also stack oscillators to fatten the sound by copying parts and assigning them to the same notes and same MIDI channel. Through the menu, settings can be made for the pitch-bend, mod wheel, and aftertouch of the MIDI controller. Should the 64 program memories not be enough, you can do a sys-ex dump of the memories into a MIDI sequencer and start over.
The Darkstar delivers a lot of very cool sounds -- punchy basses; sharp synth leads; an array of swirling, burbling, and drippy noises -- and a lot of fun."
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Roland MC-303
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.Details:
"The Roland MC-303 Groovebox® is a self-contained, retro-styled sequencer and integrated sound module with some very high-tech features. Techno, jungle, hip-hop, acid and other dance styles can now be approached easily and creatively by dance music producers and other groove enthusiasts with little or no musical training.
* 448 dedicated dance sounds, 40 synth basses (TB-303, etc.), 35 synth leads, 33 synth pads
* 12 rhythm kits, including TR-808, TR-909, techno, jungle and house sets
* Built-in vintage synth sounds and arpeggios, Preset and User dance patterns with 300 variations
* 16-part multitimbral with an 8-track sequencer containing multiple quantize functions: Grid, Shuffle and Groove
* Resonant filter, LFO, envelope control and built-in effects: delay, reverb, flanger and chorus
* Realtime Phrase Sequencer (RPS) for instant recall of musical phrases
* Low Boost feature"
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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Casio VZ ROM
Details:
• Tested OK and works on these CASIO synthesizer models :
• VZ Synths : VZ-1, VZ-8m, VZ-10m
• PG Synth Guitars : PG-300, PG-310, PG-380
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Spectral Audio Protone
No title link. Just three shots pulled via this auction.
Details: "The ProTone is a monophonic Analog Synthesizer with an internal MIDI Interface. Because of the full analog design, the ProTone is perfect for creating powerful, special and never before heard sounds. And with its deep red front panel, it will look great in your rack. Features 2 true VCO makes Sawtooth and Pulse Waves White Noise Generator True Ringmodulator Slide (Portamento) High and Lowpass Filter with Resonance Selectable 12 or 24 dB per Octave Accent (Decay Envelope for the Filter) Keyfollow Wide LFO Range: 0.005 ... 3800 Hz LFO Waves: Rectangle, Impuls, Triangle, Sawtooth, Sinus, Noise and Random LFO Targets: VC01, VC02, Pulse Width of VC01, Cutoff and Panaroma ADSR Envelope Stereo Output with Stereo Panning 5 Octaves MIDI Interface MIDI controlled Volume and Cutoff frequency Velocity sensitive CV and Gate In/Output to control vintage Synthesizer External VCO and LFO Inputs"
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
MAM ACM-2 Mini Syncussion Analog Clap Synth
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"The sound of the MAM ACM 2 can be manipulated by the following knobs/parameters in real time:
Trigger - Audition the sound with fixed velocity.
Decay Reverb - Defines the length of the Reverb.
Reverbration - Controls the reverb.
Clap - Controls the speed of the clap.
Noise - Value of the noise.
Resonance - Analog VCF Resonanse
Filter - Analog VCF Frequency
High Pass - frequency of the High Pass Filter
Volume - Controls the Master Volume."
Waldorf MicroWave
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"For those in the know, the MicroWave I is essentially a 'slimmed-down 'micro' version of Waldorf's megalithic Wave synthesizer.' It is a modern digital polyphonic wavetable synth module that can emulate classic analog sounds as well as create new and unique sounds through digital wavetable modeling. This is the MicroWave I version, so that means ANALOG 24db Lowpass filtering! 8 voice polyphony, 64 internal patches, 64 memory patches, full MIDI implementation. All sorts of waves/wavetables for shaping all kinds of sounds, resonant filters, a noise generator, ring modulator, programmable arpeggiator and effects. I just put this baby through its paces via headphones, and I am just amazed at the organic, swirling stereo sounds emanating from it.
Also includes original manual, programming manual, and MIDI implementation chart, in mint condition. (Power cable is attached to module.)"
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Bent Roland TR-626
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"Mark from zensystems in Scotland has totally freaked the beast out of it. All original sounds are now a bit crunchier and harder before any switching. Mods are accessed via 14 3 way switches and 6 2 way switches, giving a staggering amount of bend possibilities. The sounds range from distorted drums, to 8 bitty game boy tunes to thundering bass and just plain weird all at the drop of a switch. All the original functionality is still there making this one hell of a beast when played in sync with your drum machines/laptops/midi sources.
On top of that Mark added an 8 channel passive filter section from a juno (don’t know which one). This allows tonal filtering of the 8 main sounds. Its quite a subtle effect but works nicely with the wild sounds, kind of like a filter kill switch. 8 pots control the cut-off and above them are 8 momentaries for bypassing the pots. These are great for ‘dropping’ heavy kicks/snares/beeps into the mix."
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Yamaha TX802
Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.This one looks like it's from the Whitney Houston gear liquidation. You can see the sellers other listings here.
via Loscha
Doepfer A-100
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"The A-100 Basic System 1 is a reliable starting point for working with the A-100 but it contains no MIDI interface:
2 x Standard VCO A-110
2 x ADSR A-140
2 x LFO A-145
1 x Ring Modulator A-114
1 x Audio Divider A-115
1 x VC Waveform Processor A-116
1 x Noise/Random A-118
1 x VCF1 A-120 (24dB low pass 1)
1 x VCF2 A-121 (12dB multimode filter)
1 x linear VCA A-130
1 x logarithmic VCA A-131
1 x linear Mixer A-138a
1 x logarithmic Mixer A-138b
1 x Dual S&H A-148
1 x Dual VC Switch A-150
1 x Trigger Divider A-160
1 x Trigger Sequencer A-161
1 x Dual Trigger Delay A-162
1 x Dual Slew Limiter A-170
1 x Multiple I A-180 30 patch cables (mixed)"
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