Scored a second-hand Erica Synths Steampipe a few days ago, after selling of lots of obsolete stuff.
Had hoped it would arrive in time for Easter, but alas, it hasn't.
So more time for me to place some more classifieds...

Cheers,
Bert

I use this, to put the MO into the basic mode, just do a bit of surgical EQ'n for the low end.

Korg Wavedrum Oriental edition + stand

Bought





Tax Rebate Time, TRT, I love it.

Boring but functional, a Korg synth tuner. Pretty good, pretty bright and has line in, out and a mic.

I also bought the Akai Key 37, it arrives today.
(I have a black MS-101.)

Bought a Behringer Syncussion.

They match! Looks like a fun pair. I have a Key 37 as well.

I love mine. Thinking about buying another. It is a bass monster

I finished building a box of utility modules for my Arp2600M.
I’ve been working on this on and off since February.
I have to finish some calibration on some internal normalized routings and I may have to make a few fixes/mods if I find any new issue, but it seems to be working correctly after solving a few mistakes of mine.

I built 4 lfo (without any cv control) with square and saw-triangle-ramp (MS-20 style, so to speak), two DC-coupled 3 to 1 mixers, 4 vca, an adsr with gate delay in front of it and a bunch of cv utilities to control the pitch of the Arp2600M oscillators in a more flexible way.

I think I should spend a few words on the CV utilities. I took inspiration from a mod shown in a video by Anthony Marinelli: his 2600 has a bunch of switches to add/subtract an octave from each oscillator, plus switches for a custom interval controlled by a pot. So I took the voltage adder section from the YUSynth cv standards module and I built something similar in an external box. For each oscillator, I have a switch to add/subtract one octave, another switch to add/subtract a custom interval (slightly wider than one octave), a pot to add some external modulation (which I normalized to a triangle lfo going through a vca…), an indipendent pitch cv input and a switched cv input which can go to either A or B input or off.

The Arp2600M allows for paraphonic playing, it has two cv outputs which I connected to the A and B input. So, with a flip of a switch, I can decide whatever CV controls each oscillator pitch. Then, by flipping another switch, I can tune the oscillators up/down quickly (I’m not a fan of the long coarse slider of the Arp2600). And I can add finally add vibrato, by patching the mod wheel output to the vca (which, by the way, I also normalled internally to the rising voltage of the gate delay, so I can choose for some modulation slowly fading in, if I don’t patch anything to the cv input “A” of the first vca).

I’m not super satisfied of the quality of the build, it’s messy inside (stripboard) and the external look is definitely cheap/home (especially the writing), but it does the job…


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Got three more SR-JV-WIFI cards for my JV-2080.

Cheap(on sale) VST plugin RS-09.

https://www.audiothing.net/instruments/res-09/

Picked up a Korg SQ-64 to see if it could replace my SQ-1.

First thing that struck me was its build and weight. Compared to all the light weight cheapy stuff about, this thing is like a brick. Solid and heavy.

Not sure if i'll keep it as I think I prefer the SQ-1 tbh. A lot of features I probably won't use, as the SQ usually works with the Behringer 2600 and Doepfer Dark Energy. If it doesn't work out, i'll buy another (or 2 more) SQ-1s maybe.

Sq64 is the ultimate "could have been" product

I reboxed mine for return after ten minutes

TD-3 is a good little MIDI or CV&Gate sequencer with pattern memories ..
not the same thing of course, re: immediate pitch & length changes. i like the SQ1 but TD3 does it well too. just to have a good grasp of the sequencer. (have a longstanding belief that the TB303 was designed to be a portable scratchpad like a QY to take back to your mega modular or other cv&gate leviathan)

cheap as chips, excellent sync options ...

I bought this week a new SQ-64 for the same price of a SQ-1. Tomorrow it will arrive and I will comment my experience sequencing my ARP2600M, Model 15, Solina, Drumlogue and Kobol.

Yes, I have an original TD-3 (not the MO like you just got).

Fantastic value for money, especially used prices.

This looks terrible in the best possible way

I remember when the SQ64 was announced it was a bit lacking and buggy… have those things been fixed over the years? I’m slightly tempted by it. I love my SQ-1 but often wish it had more steps and/or lanes.

I’m curious what the recent purchasers think.

SQ-1 and SQ-64 are completely different devices. AFAIK there is no SQ-1 replacement.

I haven't looked closely at the Voltage Lab 2's keyboard/sequencer thing but that might be an option although it's expensive and comes with a synth. I imagine it can do some similar things.

Needed a portable keys synth, nearly bought a Darkstar Virus for a lot more but decided the sound isn't there anymore for this kind of price.

I got the Take 5 instead. I never played a P5 but I loved the P6 so this is its semi-replacement.

Lovely little package, handsome too. The TEO 5 colour scheme put me right off.

Congrats, it’s a great synth. It was my favorite until the TEO-5 came out, now it’s my 2nd favorite.

I like the TEO-5 color scheme, looks great in person. But, we all have different tastes.

New VST, GuyEngine V2. Complete one-trick pony, pretty much a rompler with some basic ADSR controls, high pass and low pass filters, vibrato. The special sauce is in the samples and reverb. In addition to general midi cheese, it has a bunch of samples from late 90’s and early aughts video games. There’s both a standard reverb and a convolution reverb that uses impulse responses captured from the Dreamcast, PS 1 and 2, and the GameCube. So by no means a sound design powerhouse, but lots of nostalgic, lofi fun.