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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
E-MU Virtuoso 2000
via this auction"The Virtuoso 2000 is a 128-voice orchestral sound module with over 64 MB of sounds - an entire orchestra in a single rack space! Featuring the "Orchestral Session" soundsets 1&2 from E-mu, the sounds are great and they include violins, violas, celli, double basses, trumpets, French horns, trombones, bass trombones, tubas, piccolos, flutes, oboes, English horn, clarinets, bass clarinets, bassoons, contra bassoons, harp, orchestral bells, tubular bells, bell trees, celeste, xylophone, marimba and a percussion battery with over 20 instruments! With 128 voices, 32 MIDI channels, lightning-fast MIDI response and over 1,000 sounds you can create the largest of orchestral ensembles! Additional professional features worth mentioning include the twelve assignable real-time front panel controls, six analog outputs plus an S/PDIF digital output, two additional internal ROM expansion slots, ability to play back Flash ROMs authored on E4 Ultra Samplers and an advanced synthesis architecture based on the Proteus 2000. The Virtuoso 2000 is likely the best all-in-one orchestral sound module ever!"
E-MU Planet Earth
via this auction"E-mu's Planet Earth picks up where their popular Carnaval module leaves off. Polyphony has been doubled to 64 voices. And there is a 32 MB "World" soundset with an amazing collection of authentic rhythms and traditional world-instruments. E-mu's exclusive SuperBEATs performance mode is here as well. Planet Earth also has up to 16 syncable arpeggiators, digital 12-pole resonant filters, 12 real-time controllers and more! Sounds can be tweaked and warped using its advanced synthesis architecture and effects processor. On the stage or in the studio, Planet Earth is the professional's choice for World sounds and ethnic percussion! This Module includes the stock World Expedition 32 MB sound-set, but is expandable up to 128 MB via three additional slots for 32 MB expansion cards."
Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
via this auction"modified with 6 separate outputs and the latest firmware rom update so the sequencer can sync to non-sequential midi! It is called the 'super six trak'"
Flame MIDI Talking Synth
via this auction"The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small-sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet ? chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation LLC. Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue it was then refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speech-like sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps, alarms, noise and retro-style sci-fi sounds. Due to the structure of the Speakjet ? (with its complex sound synthesizer, preset sounds and serial interface) it offers an impressive range of possibilities. It contains 72 speech elements (allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 DTM touch tones. The idea was to create sounds, patterns and sequences in the 8-bit style of the 80s or other retro sounds for making music instead of just simulating speech. Most allophones can be tuned and used tonally. The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH contains two Speakjet ? chips to produce a richer and more complex tonal variety as well as generating a pseudo stereo effect.
Since the Speakjet ? has not originally been laid out for the purpose of making music it is actually not fully controllable via MIDI input, i.e.: once sounds are triggered they cannot be directly stopped by Note Off messages from a MIDI keyboard or a sequencer. Thus a MIDI-controlled audio tremolo has been implemented in the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH virtually allowing MIDI control and enabling an easier integration into a MIDI setup. The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH lets you play back preset words in its EXPANDER mode via an external MIDI keyboard or a sequencer. In addition you can use the FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH as a stand-alone MIDI controller since all controls and joysticks send MIDI control/change data to the MIDI-OUT connector."
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Roland TB-303 Devil Fish
via this auction"The Devil Fish is a modification to the TB-303 – a synthesiser/ sequencer produced by Roland in 1981/82, which has played a crucial role in the development of electronic dance music. Robin Whittle of Australia is responsible for this most amazing modification. A detailed description of the Devil Fish modification can be found on his website."
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
ARP Solus
images via this auction"Give analog warmth to your music with this monophonic analog synthesizer Arp Solus. The Solus is a 2 VCO, monophonic analog synthesizer with a 3-octave keyboard and is enclosed in its own road case. Both VCO's feature a slider selecting variable waveforms from sawtooth to pulse, as well as a slider controlling pulse-width and the amount of pulse-width modulation. VCO2 is syncable to VCO1 and can be detuned. The pulse-width can be modulated by the LFO or the ADSR. The VCF has controls for frequency, resonance, as well as three sliders controlling modulation amount from the keyboard, the LFO, and the ADSR. It also features a ring modulator. The back panel features interfaces (in and out) for CV, Gate, and Trig allowing you to control it with another keayboard. Also in the back is a footpedal input and External Audio input, as well as high and low outputs. It sounds great for lead, bass and all sorts of wacky sounds that cut through a mix. It’s also very fun to play with!
The user and service manuals can be downloaded as PDF at http://technopolitan.se/manuals/ARP/"
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
E&MM Syntom Anlog Synth Tom
via this auction"Amazing little analogue tom tom unit from the 1980s in perfect working order. Offers amazing effects well beyond tom toms! 3.5 mm input socket to 'trigger' the unit.You will need a switch to trigger it - not supplied. ( anything as simple as a bell push connected to a 3.5mm jack will do nicely) 6.3mm line output socket. Powered by a 9v PP3 type battery."
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Yamaha DS55
via this auction" * It's a second-generation 4 Operator FM synthesizer.
* It has 61 full size, velocity sensitive keys.
* It's closest relatives are probably the DX11, V50, and DSR-2000.
* It has MIDI in, out, and thru, and is multi-timbral.
* It has 1/4" jacks for L and R output, and a separate headphone output.
* Also has volume pedal, sustain, and breath controller inputs!
* Can run off batteries or the included wall-wart power supply.
The manual can be downloaded here
Now, here's where things get interesting. While it does not have full sound editing capabilities, it does have the "Quick Edit" FM editing features found on the later DX synths. It also has a simple digital delay effect, to which you can make small adjustments to the delay time. It does have patch storage, and communicates via SYSEX.
The best part: the synthesizer is patch compatible with (from what I can tell) ALL 4OP FM synths! That means you can load up the Lately Bass preset from the DX100, and have a full keyboard to play it (and a digital delay). You cannot load full libraries - only one patch at a time (there are a couple of models with full library compatibility, I believe, the DX11 being one of them). There's plenty of software on the Mac and PC to let you do this, and it wasn't too much trouble for me to use it in that fashion."
Novation A-Station
images via this auction"British synth makers Novation take their now classic BassStation Rack to the next level. The A-Station is polyphonic, adding 8 voices of polyphony to their 1-unit rack-mount synth. Unlike the original BassStation and Super Bass Station which were real analog synths, the A-Station gets its voice architecture from the Super Nova synths, which use analog sound modelling. The A-Station has the layout and shape of the famous Bass Stations, but its guts are basically a slimmed down SuperNova.
It has 25 knobs for real-time control, and all knobs transmit MIDI controller messages. The A-Station has three oscillators which provide sawtooth, triangle, sine and pulse width modulation. There's even a simple FM synth engine which can be dialed in for sharpening the sound. Oscillators may be set to Unison or Sync'd operation and a Noise source is also included in the waveform engine. There is a nice lowpass resonant filter with switchable 12 or 24dB/oct slopes and ADSR controls. A second ADSR envelope is available for the oscillators, as well as two LFOs with sample-and-hold and MIDI sync.
On-board effects include reverb and delay. Their send levels can be controlled by the Mod wheel which is a nice effect. A 12-band vocoder is also on-board for processing external mono sounds such as drum loops or vocals. The A-Station's pads sound great when vocoded with external sounds. External sounds can also be used as an oscillator, run through the filters, envelopes, etc. with much better results than were possible on the original Bass Station. There's even a built-in Arpeggiator whose speed synchronization and sweep range can be stored with the program for instant recall. For clean analog sounding synth bass, punchy leads, pads, filter sweeps and more - the A-Station is certainly a great piece of kit to have around!"
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Circuit Bent VOCAID BABELBOX
via this auction"circuit bent Texas Instruments VOCAID. This unit is called the VOCAID BABELBOX. I have only bent a few of these units over the years but i have never seen another bent one listed on ebay. This unit is similar to the Touch and Tell BABELBOX units but the voice is different and it has way more sounds available in its memory. There are 4 banks of 31 words and phrases that you can change with the settings of 3 switches.
This unit will make bent voice/tone/loop sounds when you turn on any of the bend switches and touch the front panel. You can change the pitch by moving your hand over the photo sensor or touching the body contact and front panel. The size is approx: 14" X 10" X 1.5". The unit uses 2 "D" batteries for power (not included).This is a great instrument for live work or for sampling sounds in the studio.
Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
1 loop switch to catch or freeze sounds and repeat them.
1 loop advance button, press to move to another loop.
2 bend switches that can twist and bend the words and sounds when you press on the holographic panel. You can get the unit to spit out bent words and bent sounds almost endlessly.
1 Glitch button that bends the sound when you press the holographic panel and then press this button.
1 distortion switch that adds fuzz/distortion/pulse sound to the voice or bent sounds.
1 reset button to reset the unit if it crashes.
3 memory bank switches, different settings of the switches give different words on the control surface.1 tone "on" switch that puts out a nice triangle wave tone that you can "play" with any or all of the pitch controls. This feature works great with the photo sensor control.
1 Pitch change photo sensor switch to turn on/off the photo sensor.
1 Photo sensor that lets you "play" the pitch of the sound by moving your hand over the sensor without touching it, just like playing a theremin! This is one of the best ways to play the sounds on the VOCAID BABELBOX.
1 pitch range switch that sets the range of the pitch from high to low. You can switch from the highest pitch to the lowest just by flipping this switch.
1 pitch change brass knob for body contact. When you touch the knob the pitch of the sound will go down. If you touch the holographic foil label with your other hand, the pitch will go even lower.
1 pitch change pot with ball knob that varies the pitch of the sound in both high and low pitch ranges.(as set by the pitch range switch)
1 pitch change holographic foil front panel works when touching the body contact.
1 audio 1/8"output jack to send the signal to an amp or FX unit.
1 super bright LED in ball on gooseneck that strobes to the sounds that the unit makes and lights up the control surface.
Shiny black paint job with silver marble look.
1 BABELBOX users manual.
This unit is designed for live performance, but it also works great for recording sounds in the studio."
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