6.4.2011 – New Roland Jupiter 80 Synth announced (Musikmesse)

This is a teaser video that roland posted introducing „something“ called Jupiter 80 coming at the Musikmesse – since the 6th of April is the first day in Frankfurt. I will see it and put up a photo, then. Metamorphosis of a LegendDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen 256 Voice (4x Multi) Roland Jupiter 80 Digital Synthesizer (2011) + simple sequencer – 26 OSC, 24 Filter, 48 LFO, 24 EGs

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Replacing Floppy Drives in Synths and Samplers

There are some ways to replace the vintage Drives of Synths (and 8/16Bit vintage computers of course) on of them is a shugart to card – another is USB which will be a nice bridge to your computer… Especially Samplers and Synths will be happy to get one of these HxC2001 HeadQuarters : HxC Floppy Emulator. im Forum dazu: Floppy Drive Emulator – Erfahrungen? maybe you also remember this CF-Card Interface (HDM) as another option?

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MFB Dominion X expander panel

the  – MFB Dominion X has been introduced earlier, but here’s the panel – this one is the expander version which might be close to the keyboard version – note the MFB Synth 2, Synth II Hybrid Synthesizer is no longer available. So this is a replacement as well. The Size will be quite comparable. Not this thing has the very high quality Ebbe + Flut Filters 3 VCOs (gute stimmstabilität) mit pwm, sine to tri mod, tri to saw mod, double Sync, triple Ringmod, double FM, Glide Mixer mit…

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iCircuit – The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor for iDevs

this is a simulator of electronic circuitry, possibly „too technical“ for some musicians, but possibly very interesting for all nerds, since it can do the sound as well. I’d be interested if you can do a simple radio that way – virtual antennas? ok, you can do your own oscillators, ringmods – maybe simulating an MS20? dont know about the complexity?  so maybe closest to „virtual analog component modeling“. iCircuit Introduction from Frank A. Krueger on Vimeo. About – iCircuit – The Realtime Circuit Simulator and Editor. for the iDevices.…

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