We are lucky to have someone like you around to maintain these wonderful instruments Dani. Can I ask what effects processing was added to the CMI there? :giveheart: Ah thanks, it is an obsession for sure - but then again, I'd never find the strength if it wasn't.... The number of times people have ...

Been working very hard on undertaking major repairs resurrecting a burnt out 1983 Fairlight CMI Series IIx and after a great deal of fault finding and component replacement the beast is back up and running on all 8 of her channel cards. I added the latest test recording to my Secret World of Vintage...

awwh.. many thanks to all of you for your kind comments - there are a great deal more to follow - there is a never ending stream of beasts reaching my workshop bench and it only seems to be growing as all our beloved kit just gets older...

I wanted to share a playlist that has been growing ever longer of test recordings I've been making over the years of resurrected kit for private clients having landing on the bench often for major TLC. The figure makes me feel worn out just looking at it but its now totalling well over 500 including...

I have to admit I'm rather spoilt when it comes to the classic heavyweights in the studio but in recent years in some ways I've been getting more reward from various cheap little synths nobody either seems to want or knows anything about... Like the little Crumar Synthaphone which turned out to be a...

I know there are similar posts to this one, but all of them are slightly different (or have different symptoms) to the problems that I am experiencing. My 106 is completely dead apart from a sound similar, but louder, to 106 chorus noise sound. If I turn the unit off and on again, this sound can va...

Many thanks for all the suggestions - I've had the Linn 9000 from h**l on the bench - now finally back up and running after many days of intense resurrection but the sheer carnage the lithium batteries had caused to the motherboard was just incredible and had even rotted out multiple IC socket pins ...

I am trying to make a guitar amp out of a Grundig tk400 which has the following:EF86, EF83, ECC81 and ECL86 I would like to use the circuit and adapt it, but I cant find a schematics. Anyone know where I could find one? You will find them here - you will need to sign up first though - radiomuseum i...

Probably not. Sounds like a lot of work. You could probably sell those, seeing as the S612 is definitely a newly popular machine with all the mods now available for it. Take a look at Hideawaystudios thread on Gearslutz. Just a quick link to my XD-280 Disk Emulator for the S612 which has been provi...

Hi Everyone... With some intrepidation I decided to have a go firing up Novachord 346 for the first time in what turns out to be 8 years! To my great relief, the now 82 year old quarter ton 163 tube beast came out of slumber with all 12 of her master oscillators in action and pretty much in the same...

Gorgeous! I’d assume that you lose the floating-split keyboard function from the Synergy but does the Mulogix Slave 32 keep the polyphonic portamento? The Slave 32 retains most of the features of the DK Synergy including all of the Split and Portamento Modes. It also features a larger user memory a...

I recently resurrected a gorgeous Mulogix Slave 32 which is the uber rare expanded rackmount version of the DK Synergy II+. According to its creator only around 25 of these beasts exist. The GDS/Synergy/Slave 32 were early all digital FM/additive 32 oscillator synths with 16-bit audio. Amazingly, al...

Holy cow its expensive though!.. expecially considering how inexpensive the reissues of the CEM VCOs are in volume.

There is a fair bit more to the Sigma than first meets the eye... it is definitely not an instant gratification machine and needs some time to really explore the possibilities. It was very popular among a number of synth heavyweights in the late 70s as a performance synth so don't let people let you...

Just beware that although Version 1.2 gives you things like data value INC/DEC buttons it loses the free-wheeling LFOs which are now synchronised to key-on events. Since the VS is all about modulation this has put me off undertaking this upgrade in the past. I would like to have the option to downg...