Casio CZ-101 Demo

Title link takes you to another one synth sample by memo on VSE, also saved here for posterity. Great sample.

Roland SH-09 Track

Title link takes you to a cool track made solely with the Roland SH-09, sent my way via Chris.

"Thought this might make you smile, it 's from my Roland SH-09 project page. I tried to see if I could capture the feeling of an early, cheesy synth composition ( i.e. Bruce Haack and miss Nelson which I love ). The track was made entirely on my modded SH-09, recorded and multi tracked in logic. I added a little tape delay and vintage spring reverb and the voice samples were a finishing touch. Hope you enjoy.

Chris"

I did. Thanks Chris!

TR-808.com

Title link takes you to TR-808.com where you will find specs, pics, mods, samples, the manual and more. Via Music Hardware.

AHNE 2006 Maplin

Shot of the Maplin via AHNE 2006. Description below by Eric (alt-mode).

"It's a 4 oscillator monosynth with a pin matrix for patching (the pins are not compatible with EMS synths). It has some unusual routings in that there are no oscillator outputs on the matrix. All of the oscillators go into 3 different mixers that then can be routed to other modules.

It has two filters and a phaser as well as some LFOs, I think. It sounded pretty good in my limited use. It did have some very odd EGs with multiple segments and different terminology. I didn't have time to wrap my brain around the EGs.

The real issue with Maplins is that they were sold as kits so the quality is based on the skills of the builder. David was telling me that this particular unit was assembled by someone who was very very good. He said there are wires that go across the chassis, as part of the design. Each wire is tagged on each end so there is no need to trace the wires. All of the soldering is exceptional and given that it is working today after 20+ years is testament to good construction skills.

Eric"

AHNE 2006 by alt-mode

Title link takes you to more. Mmmm... Waldorf Wave.

Nice Lawn

Shot of 5 Yamaha CS80s sent the the CS80 list by Kent.

Check out these mods on one of them:

"The knobs and sliders on the mod panel is the Dynamic Unison, Dimension C and Phase Shifter controls.

The Dynamic Unison is a auto switching mono to poly controller using the old on/off, chorus and tremolo buttons.

Then there is a Dimension C chorus/ensemble like the Boss CE1. These use the four silver buttons for the different fx amounts. And the on off is the old wha button.

The Phase Shifter is a four, eight and twelve stage unit with stepping and rise only and fall only.

Other mods on it include midi in ,through and out. Yes that's right midi out :)"

I asked, and yes, it does transmit poly-aftertouch.

Update via nkdent in the comments: "Well the Dimension C has those tiny silver buttons and is much more compact so I'd say he probably mounted the board for one inside. The history is that the Dimension D came first and the C is a budget but still guitar pedal version that's analog and comes pretty darn close. A big difference is the D has stereo or mono balanced ins and stereo outs. The C has only a mono in and a choice of mono or stereo outs and is unbalanced with a much tighter packed circuit board that's a fraction of the size of the D.

The settings are pretty similar (there is no variable speed on either, just presets of increasing intensity) though at least one is more different than the other 3 if you compare the 2."

OB-1 Resurrected

This one in via Brian Comnes.

"There has been a burst of Email recently on AH list extolling the Bay Area's synth tech Greg Montalbano aka Klosmon so I thought I'd get you in the mix. I was so happy that he brought my OB-1 monosynth back to life from leaky battery hell a couple of months ago that I put together this little graphic to commemorate the event. The battery damage was like the Eveready Bunny, it just kept going and going and going.....but then Greg kept replacing and replacing and replacing, and voila - phatt bass lines redux."