All for the love of music and the tools that help make it. Feel free to contact me if you need information, patches, samples, a vinyl transfer, or just have shared interests in music.
This a excellent sounding and very versitile mixer. It's a great front end for the Digi 002r as it has direct outs on all 8 channels. It's got an amazing eq and very nice preamps.
Some may not like the rotary faders, but it didn't take long for me to get used to them.
A small portable tape delay. It sounds great, except it's not a well magnetically shielded unit.
For example, it gets alot of noise interference when placed on top of an amplifier or over the pickups of a Clavinet (like in the picture). You just need to be mindful of where you place it and it works perfectly. It has a CV input to control the motor speed; something I haven't seen on the vintage tape echos.
I used to own a Roland SRE-555 Chorus Echo and I don't miss it at all now that I have the Hiwatt.
One of those old peices of gear with all the jacks and controls right there on the front panel. Why don't they make gear like that anymore? This analog vocoder makes everything sound expressive.
It can do more than just robot voices, you can also make drums sing.
This is the first piece of gear I ever bought. I can sequence all my drums and MIDI gear with it. There's nothing more intuitive and useful for making music than an MPC.
Digital sequencer with analog outputs. This unit helps bridge the gap between analog and MIDI clock signals. It has versitile clock/gate/CV outs and a sequencer that nails the acid sound.
I ordered the HardSID directly from Téli Sándor himself. This Hungarian product is pure genius. In many ways this PCI card is better than the SidStation. You can play multiple patches
at once. You can map out drum patches to MIDI note numbers. This lets you make some serious SID drum kits. The patch editor is very easy to use. There aren't MIDI cc's assigned for every parameter, but the important ones have MIDI cc's.
The card and software all work great on the 1 Ghz Pentium 3 I am using it in.
Another one of those products made by a mad genius. Wayfar.net offers an affordable cartrige that allows you to control the NES's 2A03 chip. Now you can play the old NES! It is like an instrument that is always in multi mode, receiving five channels of MIDI.
The fist two channels are square waves with lots of modulation options. The third channel is the tringle wave. There's nothing like the triangle wave bass of the old NES. The fourth channel is an extremely versitile noise channel (think Nintendo drums). Just as a bonus, there are two banks of 128 crusty 8-bit samples (drums, stabs, vocal, etc.) in a fifth channel.
The NES is really a whole quintet in a box.
Here is Oliver Wittchow's other Nanoloop creation. He made his own cartrige to run an 8-bit software synthesizer on the GBA. It's 16 step sequencer with 8 simultaneous tracks.
I can sync it to an external MIDI source. It's the best game made for the Gameboy, ever!
This little box was the sound source used for many late 80's and early 90's computer game compositions. It has a dated and nostalgic sound (for those who played old adventure games).
This is my master MIDI controller and an amazing synth. It's capable of pretty much anything, but excels at spacey pads and otherworldly sounds. It can make some damn good bass too. I'm still a novice at programming Yamaha FM synthesis, but luckily there are loads of great patches already available from programming masters.
Fairly modern for a vintage monosynth. Built around 1983. It has very reliable tuning, and a rugged low-profile build. The mod grip turns it into the best looking and least ergonomic keytar, ever!
It's an ideal synth for playing out live. It even came with it's own carrying bag. These synths are pretty common, but also very good. CV/gate ins and outs, external clock in, very easy sequencer, cool arpeggiator, great sound, it's a great synth.
Hands down the best value vintage mono out there. For the price range, their flexibility is unmatched. The modulation routings allow for a huge variety in sounds.
It is easily CV/gated and also has a LFO/arpeggiator clock input. It doesn't have the best build quality, but as long as you don't throw it around it will be fine.
This is my favorite one of the Casio SK family. Those drum pads actually feel great. It has the hippest preset beats I have ever heard on a Casio.
Four voice polyphonic!
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I was very lucky to find this beauty less than a mile away from my house. Rhodes only made about 25 of these units. I'm not truly a pianist (there's a big difference between sequencing synths and actually playing a piano)
but I think the action feels very nice on this Rhodes. The built-in preamp sounds great. There is a preamp-out in back of this unit making it suitable for studio use.
This is the most reliable and portable electric piano ever made. It sounds great. The action mechanism consists of sticky silicon pads that "pluck" thin metal reeds. Think of them like giant harmonica reeds. There is an electronic pickup at the end of each reed. The result is an amazingly full sound in a very portable package.
Also, they never go out of tune! Well, that's unless you leave one out in the rain. This electric piano also sounds great through guitar effects.
Amazing instrument from Hohner. Just the epitome of "funk" when used with the wah pedal. Like an electric guitar, they sound best when used with an old amp or some effect that adds a little warmth and character.
