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Good to hear that Waldorf are rising from the ashes! Tasty Q there, mate!

Jyoti wrote:Good to hear that Waldorf are rising from the ashes! Tasty Q there, mate!

Yeah, Waldorf makes great synths and it appears that the right people will be involved.

With the Q and my Voyager I can have my cake and eat it too!

Jyoti wrote: That Casio has earned it's place, I reckon.

Today I was triggering my Rogue and Voyager from my Synsonics drums - another neglected bit of classic toy gear.

Well earned if you ask me ! Good to see that you still have your old Rogue too.

Synsonics drums? Weren't they made by Mattel?
This is our bit of ancient Mattel-tech......



..... although seeing as they helped to ruin Lesney products and thus contributed to the downfall of British industry I'm not sure I should be so enthusiastic...... Although Thatcher played her part in all that with the 'Japanese Leyland' giveaway.... *rant*

Those synsonics drums rock haha. I dusted off mine after about 15 years and recorded half of my electronica album with them.

They rock for running them through various kinds of processors and delays. THe latest i ran them through was my Ring Modulator.

Mine is growing a bit unstable sometimes not keeping the tempo right anymore. Its very sensitive on the tempo control.

THis site has one for sale for $150


http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/msg/145429453.html

THey also have a roland midi string/keys unit for sale for under 100 dollars. COuld be similar to the one in the sonic infinity video.

Jyoti wrote:

carbon111 wrote:

Jyoti wrote:Yaaay! A VL-1! I've got one too, one of my fave synths. And is that a PEK I spy on the right?

Yes it is!

And an XT... drool...

You, sir, have impeccable taste!

Well, I'm sort of an XT nut you see...

http://www.carbon111.com/mwxt.html

BTW - I just pre-ordered my "Little Phatty"

sundaeclubber wrote: Well earned if you ask me ! Good to see that you still have your old Rogue too.

Synsonics drums? Weren't they made by Mattel?
This is our bit of ancient Mattel-tech......

Yep! I bought some and pretended to be Wolfgang Flur - no jumping around with tennis rackets for me.

EricK wrote:Those synsonics drums rock haha. I dusted off mine after about 15 years and recorded half of my electronica album with them.

Have you tried modding them to trigger your analogue gear? It's easy-peasy and you can have so much fun triggering all manner of stupidity.

carbon111 wrote:Well, I'm sort of an XT nut you see...

http://www.carbon111.com/mwxt.html

BTW - I just pre-ordered my "Little Phatty" Smile

Wow - that's a great resource. I'm currently on the lookout for an XTk so it might come in handy for me.

Have fun with your Tiny Tubby!

Jyoti wrote:

carbon111 wrote:Well, I'm sort of an XT nut you see...

http://www.carbon111.com/mwxt.html

Wow - that's a great resource. I'm currently on the lookout for an XTk so it might come in handy for me.

Careful with an XTk - aftertouch transmission is broken. You won't want it as a controller...AT works just fine on internal sounds though.

Regarding the XT resource page, I also have a similar resource page for the DSI Evolver:
http://www.carbon111.com/evolver.html
...and the Serge Modular:
http://www.carbon111.com/serge.html

For more studio gearporn, there's always this page:
http://www.carbon111.com/closeups.html
LOL!

I'm loving my Moogerfoogers, they can hardly wait 'till their "new friend" joins them this summer:

carbon111 wrote: For more studio gearporn, there's always this page:
http://www.carbon111.com/closeups.html
LOL!

Oooh, lovely pics!

How is the Fusion? I was seriously thinking of getting one now I've abandoned softsynths and the Fusion price has dropped.

I never tried to Mod my synsonics. How can you do it?

EricK wrote:I never tried to Mod my synsonics. How can you do it?

Ummm... I did it when I was a kid so it isn't that difficult. I drilled a couple of holes in the end, popped in some 3.5mm jack sockets and then soldered them on to the piezo pickups. (I also had a couple of sockets floating around inside - I think I ran out of the surface mounting jobbies.)

So the pads send out triggers and the Synsonic can be triggered by 808 / whatever trigs. I triggered mine from my 808 and Rogue and I played poly chords from my JX-3P sequencer by whacking the pads. Great fun! I'll try to dig it out and put up a pic.

Here you go:





Note the vintage '80s electronic gear dust. I've been bottling this and selling it on to people for that authentic analogue vibe


WARNING! If you carry out this highly dodgy mod, do so at your own risk. I accept no responsibility for your Synsonics malfuntioning / melting / burning your house down.

As a slight variation, I thought we could have a go at GUESS THE GEAR!












Some easy ones there and a couple of little tinkers...

theglyph wrote:

Moving soon but here it is!

Grrrr... soooo jealous...

Is that an EL7 Fatso Jr. I see down there glyphster? Thats a mighty pricey piece of kit! You have excellent (and expensive) taste

Ooh, guess the gear is fun!!
Two of these are going to be hard, I'll tell you in advance. : )