AKAI MPC 500 w/ 1GB CF card, 128MB RAM

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Waldorf Q Rack 16 voice polyphonic synthesizer

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"The yellow monster. For many years the flagship instrument of the Waldorf synthesizer company. It has too many features to list, but here's a sampling:
It's 16 voice polyphonic. Unlike the microq and the blofeld, these are not dynamically allocated so there are always 16 available, regardless of the patch's complexity. Each voice can have:
- up to 5 oscillators (two of the oscillators feature subharmonic oscillators) selectable from analogue modelled oscillators and 2 different wavetables
- 2 filters from a large variety of different types (including a PPG emulation and some the meatiest comb filters ever coded). These can be freely arranged in any routing from serial to parallel and can be placed at different (and modulatable) pan positions for proper stereo sounds
- 3 LFOs, 4 envelopes, a step sequencer and an amazingly well specified arpeggiator
- 2 effects units

It was marketed as a virtual analogue but imo that's selling it short. While it is primarily desiged as a subtractive synthesizer, there are so many audio rate modulation possibilties that it could have been sold as an FM synth, too. It has a hard, bright sound that is both clear and penetrating yet also gritty and weighty. It is capable of some of the most complex sounds you'll hear outside of a genuinely modular environment. It is running operating system 3.02."

Analogue Systems Spawn

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"Spawn is a 2U high rack mount synthesiser with the same MIDI/CV controller as featured on the best selling Sorceror and demon keyboards. Although the synthesiser is pre patched for ease of use there are no less than 37 sockets running below the synthesiser panel for enormous flexibility and true modular routing. The front panel boasts 23 knobs and 4 switches.
The system features a fully functional VCO with V.C. wave shaping, sync, std, -2 octave switching and wide mode as well as a sub OSC with -1 and -2 octave outputs available simultaneously for a full rich sound, and a analogue glide function for portamento in addition to the MIDI generated glide. A fully featured modulation VCA allows for LFO routing to the VCO and VCF to take full advantage of the MIDI controllers, VC LFO with 4 wave forms all with outputs, powerful 24db Moog type lowpass filter, fully featured envelope generator with auto and gated repeat modes, noise generator, VCA with log and lin response and of course the lower patch bay with its ins and outs and attenuators to unlock the true power of spawn and any connected synthesiser like its support module named Pod.
Spawn responds to MIDI note on/off, velocity, aftertouch, mod wheel, breath and expression controllers as well as portamento these are available on sockets for routing throughout the system as well as other analogue synths the user may have making it a true MIDI/CV converter as a bonus. In addition there is a switching system to route 2 of the most commonly used controllers internally so you just take spawn out of the box and connect to a MIDI device and with no patch cords inserted the musician is ready to play classic analogue synthesiser tones. The midi routing switch routes mod wheel controller to the MIDI-CV mod VCA and expression to the VCF without the need for patching. Spawn responds to single and multiple triggering via a front panel switch."

Sequential Six-Trak Analog Synth

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"The Six-Trak is a 6-voice, polyphonic, multitimbral, programmable analog synthesizer with MIDI, a squencer, an arpeggiator, and a 4-octave, 49-note (C-C) keyboard. It was one of the first multitimbral MIDI instruments designed to be used with a computer. Software was available for the Commodore 64 computer, then a very popular home personal computer. The software allowed you to program the voices and the sequencer. Sequential marketed the Six-Trak and its software with their Drumtraks drum machine as a complete MIDI system. The Six-Trak was also designed as a MIDI instrument. Some say that the SixTrak was the first multitimbral MIDI synth to respond to multiple MIDI channels. Each voice can be programmed to any of 100 internal patches and played (via an external sequencer or external keyboard controller) as a separate monophonic synth. Also available was a built-in 800 note sequencer consisting of two multitimbral Six-Trak sequences with individual volume controls. It is also syncable to an external source. Each voice consists of a single Curtis 3394 chip, which basically contains the entire synth engine (one VCO, a VCF, a VCA, and an LFO) except for the ADSR envelope generators. The VCO has coarse and fine tuning, glide (portamento), and available sawtooth, triangle, and pulse (with pulse width modulation) waveforms. Each oscillator can be mixed with the noise generator. The filter section features controls for the cut-off frequency, and resonance. Keyfollow modulation can be set to off, half, or full keyboard. The filter is self-resonating and can be modulated by the oscillator. In each voice the VCO, VCF, and VCA have their own ADSR envelope generators with variable envelope amounts. Both the VCF's and the VCO's ADSRs can be inverted. The LFO can be routed to the VCO, the VCR, and pulse width modulation. Available waveforms for the LFO are square and triangle with controls for amount and frequency. Without a computer, programming is a bit of a chore. The Six-Trak uses parameter access programming via a single data knob and a single two-digit LED display. The Six-Trak features polyphonic portamento (in polyphonic mode), unison mode, and "stack" mode. Stack mode allows each voice to be set to a different patch and played as one complex monophonic sound. Both mono and stack modes are selectible between single and multiple triggering modes. The arpeggiator can be switched to up, down, or assignable, which arpeggiates notes in the order they were played. It can be set to play on voice six as a chord is played with the other five voices. The keyboard can be split into three areas. The pitch wheel is fixed at a range of a major 3rd up and a minor 3rd down. The modulation wheel controls the LFO amount. The Six-Trak's patches and Sequences can only be backed up through MIDI. Also on the back panel is the MIDI interface (IN\OUT), a stereo audio out jack which doubles as a headphone jack, and a footswitch (sustain) jack. The Six-Trak's over all dimensions are 28" x 12" x 4 1/2"."