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Friday, November 13, 2009
Yamaha CS 5 analog monophonic synth
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* Polyphony - Monophonic
* Oscillators - 1 VCO with pulse or sawtooth waveforms and noise-gen
* LFO - Yes, with sine, sawtooth, sample and hold
* Filter - 1 filter: 12dB/oct High pass or Low pass; 6dB/oct band-pass
* Effects - None
* Keyboard - 37 keys
* Memory - None
* Control - CV / Gate
* Date Produced - 1979-83
* Polyphony - Monophonic
* Oscillators - 1 VCO with pulse or sawtooth waveforms and noise-gen
* LFO - Yes, with sine, sawtooth, sample and hold
* Filter - 1 filter: 12dB/oct High pass or Low pass; 6dB/oct band-pass
* Effects - None
* Keyboard - 37 keys
* Memory - None
* Control - CV / Gate
* Date Produced - 1979-83
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Roland MPG 80 - MKS 80 Super Jupiter Programmer
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"This is the key to unlocking your MKS 80 Super Jupiter rack mount keyboard. Trying to edit patches without it is a nightmare. With the MPG 80, you have EVERY PARAMETER of the MKS 80 at your fingertips. VCF, VCA, LFO , VCO 1 & 2, PMW, Envelope 1 and 2 ADSR, and the list goes on! Knobs and sliders everywhere! Set this thing on your desk or rack mount it and tweak out!"
"This is the key to unlocking your MKS 80 Super Jupiter rack mount keyboard. Trying to edit patches without it is a nightmare. With the MPG 80, you have EVERY PARAMETER of the MKS 80 at your fingertips. VCF, VCA, LFO , VCO 1 & 2, PMW, Envelope 1 and 2 ADSR, and the list goes on! Knobs and sliders everywhere! Set this thing on your desk or rack mount it and tweak out!"
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Roland TB 303 Bass Line w/ Midi Mod
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"The TB-303 has a single audio oscillator, which may be configured to produce either a sawtooth wave or a square wave. The square wave is derived from the sawtooth waveform using a simple, single-transistor waveshaping circuit. This produces a sound that is subtly different from the square waveform created by the dedicated hardware found in most analog synthesizers. It also includes a envelope generator, with a decay control only. A lowpass filter is also included, with -18 dB per octave attenuation, and controls for cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope modulation parameters. Whilst not unique, the choice of a 3 pole design for the filter is somewhat uncommon, the standard configuration in analog synthesizers is almost always a 2 or 4 pole design. This, coupled with the way the filter modulations are bipolar, make the 303 sound difficult to exactly clone on hardware not specifically designed for that purpose. The TB-303 sequencer has some unique features that contribute to its characteristic sound. During the programming of a sequence, the user can determine whether a note should be accented, and whether it should employ portamento, a smooth transition to the following note. The portamento circuitry employs a fixed slide time, meaning that whatever the interval between notes, the time taken to reach the correct pitch is always the same. The accent circuitry, as well as increasing the amplitude of a note, also emphasizes the filter's cutoff and resonance, resulting in a distinctive, hollow "wow" sound at higher resonance settings. Roland referred to this as "gimmick" circuitry. The instrument also features a 'simple' step-time method for entering note data into the 16-step programmable sequencer. This was notoriously difficult to use, and would often result in entering a different sequence than the one that had been intended. Some users also take advantage of a low voltage failure mode, wherein patterns that are programmed in memory get completely scrambled if the batteries are removed for a time."
"The TB-303 has a single audio oscillator, which may be configured to produce either a sawtooth wave or a square wave. The square wave is derived from the sawtooth waveform using a simple, single-transistor waveshaping circuit. This produces a sound that is subtly different from the square waveform created by the dedicated hardware found in most analog synthesizers. It also includes a envelope generator, with a decay control only. A lowpass filter is also included, with -18 dB per octave attenuation, and controls for cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope modulation parameters. Whilst not unique, the choice of a 3 pole design for the filter is somewhat uncommon, the standard configuration in analog synthesizers is almost always a 2 or 4 pole design. This, coupled with the way the filter modulations are bipolar, make the 303 sound difficult to exactly clone on hardware not specifically designed for that purpose. The TB-303 sequencer has some unique features that contribute to its characteristic sound. During the programming of a sequence, the user can determine whether a note should be accented, and whether it should employ portamento, a smooth transition to the following note. The portamento circuitry employs a fixed slide time, meaning that whatever the interval between notes, the time taken to reach the correct pitch is always the same. The accent circuitry, as well as increasing the amplitude of a note, also emphasizes the filter's cutoff and resonance, resulting in a distinctive, hollow "wow" sound at higher resonance settings. Roland referred to this as "gimmick" circuitry. The instrument also features a 'simple' step-time method for entering note data into the 16-step programmable sequencer. This was notoriously difficult to use, and would often result in entering a different sequence than the one that had been intended. Some users also take advantage of a low voltage failure mode, wherein patterns that are programmed in memory get completely scrambled if the batteries are removed for a time."
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