Crumar Spirit

if you ever needed something to proove, that some auctions are really expensive, here it is: A Crumar Spirit for $3900!! it’s a good synth and moog moog was envolved here, but $4k? let’s check how many voyagers you can buy.. what is the Crumar Spirit?

Electro Music 

14.9.2018 Modularfield, Köln – Ströme, An On Bast, Chogori, HHNOI

Modularfield ruft zum Konzert – gleich 4 Acts mit Electrohintergrund lassen vermuten – das ist alles modular – fast – ein Act nicht – Aber Ströme, An On Bast, HHNOI sind absolut auf die Performance mit dem Modulsystem fokussiert, während Chogori eher akustisch ist mit leichtem Jazz-Appeal mit Kontrabass und Schlagzeug aber natürlich auch Synths (ein DS2 dominiert die Bühne) Es beginnt mit Chogori und sie sind auch die mit der anderen Ästhetik – ist das wirklich so? Nein, denn Modular bedeutet noch lange nicht gleicher Stil. Aber der akustische Jamfaktor…

Jukka Kulmala Synth 

FINISHed – Elka isn’t back!

Crowdfunding for the Synthex and „Bring Elka Back“ from Finnland failed massively. So – we won’t see any new Synthex’es next time except the Synthex 2 by Mario Maggi somewhere soon… when I looked it up, there were very far from hitting the target – it was some batch of 30 could be made but not much more.  Everyone got the money back. FINished! sorry, Mr Kulmala. was a cool thing – but maybe to hard for us using very old CEMs and everything unchanged incl. the Fan inside the…

Jen Syntar , SX2000 & Multivox FX

Jen Syntar , GS3000 Analog Synthesizer and  Jen SX2000 (built 1981) – Analog Synthesizer are new to the synth database. Thanks to Patroche & Studio Dreadful (link) for providing the images. and note those GRP synths are also from italy – so it’s not over. Updated the GRP A4 image as well.. MULTIVOX & Pulser – also italian with help of a us based guy – don’t know exactly – FX are quite inspired from Roland – as most Multivox and Pulser Synth also did .. just built or – inspired by/like the Roland tape based effects. the time of cloning those…

Makers A-Z

Synthesizers [A-Z]  (ca. 880) Manufacturers: ca.160+ 3Lab Ableton Access Ace Tone Acidlab Airbourne / Synthorama Akai Alesis Analogue Solutions Analogue Systems Anyware ARP Arturia BKE BeatKangz Bitshift BME Dr.Boehm Buchla Cactus Casio Cavagnolo Celemony Cheetah Clavia Nord Keyboards Club Of The Knobs COTK Coron Creamware Crumar Curetronic Cwejman Dave Smith Instruments DSI Diamond DiscoDSP Doepfer Dreadbox Dynacord Electronics Music Mag Electronic Dream Plant EEF EEH Eko Electro Harmonix Elektrokosmos Elektron Elka Electronic Music Lab EML EMS E-Mu Ensoniq EOwave Evolution Exclusively Analogue Fairlight-Peter Vogel Farfisa Five12 Numerology Formanta Polivoks Future Retro…

Classic Synth Specials Digital Synth Synthesizer History Timeline 

Hi-End Synthesizer Special – from Synclavier, ConBrio to GDS/Synergy to Fairlight

HI-END SPECIAL / Die BESONDEREN.. – New England Digital – Synclavier.. read the manual „why a synclavier has no midi“ ;-)) hi end FM and sampling station, better run it with a 68k vintage mac for editing.. it does Resynthesis, 12 OSCs with additiv Spectrum per OSC, FM but with one modulating and one carrier each, multiple additiv waves can be morhed into another that appear on a sort of a time line/linear envelope (just time between those additive spectra oscs) – 4 sample OSC/Timbres- >  sampling is possible on this…

Moogulatorium Part 2 – Analogsynthesizer B

Synthesizer Database Moogulatorium:ANALOG SYNTHESIZER SECTION VINTAGE & FUTURE ANALOGUE & HYBRID SYNTHESIZERs –> page 2/ 2 goto: moogulatorium 1.. –> Synthesizer Main List.. <– Cwejman S1? the swedish better MS20? no.. it’s different.. VERY much!! it has the FASTEST ENVELOPES I every listend to on ANY synthesizer!two filters and 3x FM – OSCs.. a lot of paramters can be patched using 3.5mm jacks but, hell.. I have never listended to a better synth for percussion sounds because of the 0.5ms Envelopes! there is linear and expo characteristics. the LFO is…