flickr by zonkout."Four oscillators, three multimode filters, two A/R envelope generators, digital gate sequencer, noise generator, phase shifter, external audio input...but no CV control. Uses mini-banana jacks. Built in 1977."
Trip. Never seen one of these before.
Update via the comments: "Tres cool. This thing originally came with a set of speakers (follow the link and chech top left on the record cover). Although it isnt a real synt (it has no cv input) you can use it as a really cool gate/trig-processor and a trig sequencer. You can also make some strange noices 'manually' on it. Check this link."
Update via gerald in the comments: link to more shots pulled from this auction. Looks like it went for $541.
Tres cool. This thing originally came with a set of speakers (follow the link and chech top left on the record cover). Although it isnt a real synt (it has no cv input) you can use it as a really cool gate/trig-processor and a trig sequencer. You can also make some strange noices 'manually' on it.
ReplyDeleteCheck this link: http://lobotomrecords.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=84
...Oh and i should probably say that it is really a device to set up different perceptual experiments in a speech and hearing science lab.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Makes me wonder what other cool 'not-synthesizers' are out there.
ReplyDeleteThere was one on ebay a couple weeks ago. I'll see if I can find it.
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Ah... and here it is:
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The advanced hearing science laboratory units can actually synthesize the sound of one hand clapping. Only zen monks at high altitudes have the perceptive capability to hear it.
ReplyDeleteI got it from a surplus auction. It belonged to the University of Texas at Austin. It was really fun to dial up a gate sequence for some simple aleatoric tunes. The filters were a bit thin, but running something through them and mixing all the outputs together sounded pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI sold mine on ebay a few years ago. It went to one Richard James of London. I was pretty surprised when I saw that other Starkey on Ebay recently.
Check out Analog Computers. They are filled with 'modeules' which can be used to patch up flip-flops, analog switches, simple control voltage patterns.
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Zonkout: "It went to one Richard James of London", thats Richard D. James for you! aka Aphex Twin, AFX and probably 99 other aliases. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
ReplyDeleteWhen my neighbor found out I was shipping it to "Richard James" he emailed the guy and asked if he was Aphex Twin. The guy responded that he was not, but was a fan. If you were Aphex Twin, would you want everyone knowing your ebay alias?
ReplyDeletePeter: What is the unit center-left with the triangle graphics and diagonal banana array?
So why am I clicking this link?
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What do they have to do with Starkeys?
I'm guessing they use one? Look at the picture.
ReplyDeleteOh right. I suspected something like that but could never see one, til I looked closer. Well spotted!
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