Hammond 102200 Synthesizer

Haven't seen one of these in a while. Shots pulled from this aution so they are not lost. More info in this Vintage Synth post.

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Roland JX-3P - New Flickr Shot

Cool shot via Flickr. I think that is a JX-3P.

INetSynth

Saw this on Music Thing. The weird thing is I swear I saw and read about this synth a while ago somewhere. I remember thinking it was overpriced and odd, but for the life of me I can't remember where. Title link takes you to the auction. Music Thing link takes you to their post on it with more.

"The INetSynth is a true stereo 96kHz digital hardware synthesizer with tons of cool features like multi oscillators, filters, envelopes, LFO's and a programmable matrix. It has 16 layers, each with a programmable arpeggiator and a keymap, finally the synth has 128 tones polyphony and 2 built-in stereo effects, a real "work horse" for music production"

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Minimoog Voyager Sequence

Someone on AH posted this track by Mathew Davidson as an example of a Minimoog Voyager being controlled by an external analog sequencer. Thought it was a nice track and a good example of the Voyager. Note that because the Voyager is monophonic, this piece was done by laying down one track at a time. Title link takes you to Mathew Davidson's site with more of his tracks including notes on each. Swimming is the title of this track.

Kurzweil VA1

2004 Kurzweil VA1 Musikmesse Video Demos

Published on Nov 16, 2015 matrixsynth

"A collection of short demos of the Kurzweil VA1 at the 2004 Musikmesse. The synthesizer never made it into production. The engine instead made it into the PC3X."

Original post from 2005:

The synth that wasn't. It was shown by Kurzweil at either NAMM or the Musikmesse. I forget which. Check out the display. It was a working model and people at the show heard it. The thought at the time was that it needed some polishing and the MSRP was going to be a bit pricey, but people were excited. We haven't heard from Kurweil since as far as I Know.

Update: Thought the following in the comments below was worth putting up in the main post. Thanks Mike. I agree that the competition combined with price at the time is what probably shelved it. It's too bad as it looked like it had a bit of potential. I wonder what the inside word at Kurzweil was; what would the engineers and the team working on this have to say. It's an amazing bit of synth history nonetheless.

"I saw and played the prototype on the 2004 Musikmesse in Frankfurt. It was still in Beta as many features were not working, but it sounded ok, though not spectacular as far as i remember.

Maybe they discontinued it, regarding the competetive market of Va's these days.

However, it's a shame that a manufacturer like Kurzweil seems not to be able to release "their statement" of a 21th century synth. Especially considering the undoubtable genius of Mr. Ray Kurzweil. Maybe it just get's overhauled and will find it's way to the market at one point. But guys, you have to throw something more in there to catch interest. The usual 2 OSC, 2Env one DCF isn't enough these days...

Cheers,

Mike"

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Octave The Cat

New Octave Cat fansite. Great, now I'm going to be reverring to the synth as Octave the Cat. Cool site including samples. Very Goth.

Clone of the Knobs

I previously posted about Club of the Knobs. Title link takes you to some interesting info on them. Remember ARP cloned the Moog filter and backed off, the Octave CAT was perceived as a clone of the ARP Odyssey, and there are plenty of Minimoog clones out there. The line for me is when you one, give due credit and respect to the original (don't hide anything) and two you get the blessing from the original creator if that creator is still in business or owns the design. A clone should be a compliment or a tribute to the original, not a rip off.

Speak and Roil

Flash based Speak and Spell. Title takes you there. Reminds me of the flash based Drum Machines I posted on earlier. Imagineif you were able to sync these online devices. That would be interesting. I can just see the live performance now. The network is down! The network is down! Hey, can you move over a bit, your blocking my wifi.

Breakaway Vocalizer 1000

Via GetLoFi. Interesting. Like a digital vocoder of sorts. Well, more like vocal processor, but still it does look interesting. Click here for a list of programs and some samples. Title link takes you to GetLoFi with some more shots and a link to one for auction.