I was checking out the Long and McQuade website tonight trying to find their Monster Days flyer. I did stumble across the fact that the Volca Modular is currently on sale. It's listed at 159 bucks, 120 bucks off the regular price. I wonder if they didn't buy a bunch of these, but they're not selling.

There's something very off brand '80s looking about that thing. For example the sliders and markings look like something from a Realistic product.

A lot of synth folks like the Zoom MS70CDR multieffects stompbox these days. It will even run on a pair of AA batteries.

In case anyone hasn't read one of the obits the cause of death was cancer. I never knowingly heard Kraftwerk until sometime in the '90s. I say knowingly because I got a surprise when I first listened to The Man Machine. It turned out what was then CBC Saskatoon had used looped bits of "Spacelab" and...

Antibiotic pills for my bunged up middle finger. It's hard to play guitar or keys if one finger hurts every time you use it.

Joke's on you. The song "Maniac" is actually by former Stevie Wonder sideman Michael Sembello.

The way to get around that is to shelve everything strictly alphabetically, and ignore genre. Unfortunately a lot of people would get upset at Arvo Part and Dolly Parton being in the same bin.

There's lots of music these days going for a retro '80s vibe, often classified as synthwave.

If you're Canadian the logo on that label may look kind of familiar. "Exploding pizza!"

Canadian free improv group CCMC's albums CCMC - Volume 4 - Free Soap and Without a Song both include Buchla equipment of some sort. Circa 1980 photos show what I'm guessing is a Buchla Touche. Good luck finding copies, as they apparently never made it to CD.

The original Chowning FM patents have expired, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the Yamaha ones have as well. Besides, Korg and Yamaha seem to have a friendly relationship.

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They're going to try a sequencer because I made fun of them for demoing the Neutron with a BSP...

A Roland MC4 copy. Including copying the tape drive.

A Volca M1 perhaps? If they could actually make it with more than 3 note polyphony it would make an interesting companion to the Roland D05.

This might not quite be what you're looking for, but Mike Hankinson's The Unusual Classical Synthesizer from 1971 was done with an EMS VCS3.

I'd bet it's the stuff you'd expect of the era: Samplers and '90s Korg and Roland ROMplers.

Another example of an instrument with a movable pickup is Westone's The Rail headless guitars and basses. The pickup was mounted in a piece of wood with a pair of holes in it. The holes allowed it to slide along a pair of stainless steel tubes that connected the front section, to which the neck was ...

Lots of the British stuff from KPM and Bruton can be heard on YouTube. Look for David Lindup, Syd Dale, Alan Hawkshaw, Francis Monkman, Brian Bennett, Alan Parker, Keith Mansfield, to name a few.

Korg Microstation?

I want to see Behringer do some sort of poly sequencer. A 21st Century version of an MC50 or something. Including having an SD card for storage.

IR wrote:I'd like to see an accurate copy of a Rickenbacker guitar.

Rickenbacker's lawyers would be on the phone at the merest hint of Behringer making one. Rick is notorious for going after copy makers, which is why you don't see them unless they're old.

How's this for a weird and ambitious idea, a classical synth album done on a VCS 3.
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The uploader, Terminal Passage, has uploaded a ridiculous amount of '70s and '80s jazz, fusion, and other things.

It's funny to hear Steve Miller of all people talking about rebelling against Emerson when some of the punks were probably rebelling against stuff like "The Joker."

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