Hello!

My condolences go out to his wife, Monica, his extended family and friends.
Also, a big thanks to him for the time and energy he put into sharing such a vast
body of technical information and experience an all things synth.
May he rest in peace.

Regards,


-L

Hello! You would have to find out who posted the image and ask them. Just a guess, but it looks like an ARP SE, with the synth section from an Omni transplanted into the SE''s cabinet. The Omni' 1 and 2 synth board is in the same location. One or two of the pots would be to mix audio from the two se...

New York Times writeup:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/arts/ ... .html?_r=0


Thank you for the many years of music and inspiration, Mr. Duke. You will be missed. R.I.P.

Regards,

-L

smsayre65,

Do you have the removable keybed access plate(s) on the underside of the cabinet?


Regards

-L

If that is the case I stand corrected , Yes Max Middleton sure was a funky player , I forgot about him. Later: Yes that is in fact the case , excuse my mistake, I just rechecked the album sleeve note & all these years I thought Jan Hammer was playing clav, but the sleeve notes clearly state Max Mid...

smsayre65, If you don't mind my asking, whats the serial number on your unit? You've piqued my curiosity, as the Omni-2 in ARP's product catalog from the late 70's has the black button version. I may be off about the order in which the two versions appear, but I do remember that the black button ver...

Tony's clav had the whammy bar installed at the factory. They made probably less than 100 but there were aftermarket ones as well. Hello! Iirc, all of the Castlebar clavinets were aftermarket upgrades. Buddy Castle designed and implemented the mod in the late 70's for a short period, as the cost of...

Favorite Clavinet players & moments would include Jan Hammer's funky playing, especially when with Jeff Beck & especially on 'Wired'. Hello! I don't remember Jan Hammer being much of a clav guy. The clavinet parts on "Wired" tracks like, "Play With Me" were played by keyboardist, Max Middleton. Reg...

FYI David Sancious kicks the everliving snot out of 99,9% of the keyboard players. The Minimoog and Polymoog work on tracks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELm3ZprM-iw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jW1Rt60XcE is astounding. Pretty much the entire discography is on Youtube (good thing his ...

Hi I have an ARP Omni-2 and it has all black buttons. I've searched all over, including here, and can't find anything about it. Every pic I've seen they have the orange and cream colored buttons. Anyone ever heard of an Omni-2 with all black buttons?? Hello! Yes, iirc, they're the last production v...

All you could ever want to know about pwm http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Mar03/articles/synthsecrets47.asp Came in handy for the esq1 /sq 80 too. Hello! With all due respect to the Gordon Reid article, this technique was known to some ESQ-1/SQ-80 heads, as it was explored back in the early 90's in...

I always thought that PWM was a trick for making a single oscillator sound like two beating against each other, so making a sound like PWM with two oscs should be easy. The osc sync would make sure you wouldn't have phase cancellation between the two except when you wanted it, ie it would replicate...

Okay so I basically just found out Rod Temperton (Heatwave) was behind a lot of songs that are pretty classic. Songs that I thought were all by different groups. "Always and Forever", "Groove Line", "Boogie Nights". Add to that some of the classic Michael Jackson. Anyone have a clue what synths he ...

Hello, From the 78 album, The New Brubeck Quartet "A Cut Above". Remakes of earlier classics with his sons. I remember that selections from the release were performed on a PBS special back then. The album also got some ink in what was then called Contemporary Keyboard magazine. Dave and son, Darius ...

Hello,

As far as analog machines, Larry Heard also used an Oberheim Matrix-6R.


Regards,

-L