Roland Corporation (ローランド株式会社 Rōrando Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on April 18, 1972, with ¥33 million in capital. In 2005, Roland's headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. Today it has factories in Italy, Taiwan, Japan, and the USA. As of March 31, 2010, it employed 2,699 employees. It has existed in different forms since...
Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社 Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles and power sports equipment. Yamaha has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments (including pianos, "silent" pianos, drums, guitars, brass instruments, woodwinds, violins, violas, celli, and vibraphones), as...
Korg Inc. (株式会社コルグ Kabushiki-gaisha Korugu) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners. Under the Vox brand name, they also manufacture guitar amplifiers and electric guitars. Founded in 1962 in Japan by Tsutomu Katoh and Tadashi Osanai, Korg was originally known as Keio Gijutsu Kenkyujo Ltd. and later Keio Electronic Laboratories (京王技術研究所?)...
E-mu Systems was a software synthesizer, audio interface, MIDI interface, and MIDI keyboard manufacturer. Originally founded in 1971 as a synthesizer maker, E-mu was a pioneer in samplers, sample-based drum machines and low-cost digital sampling music workstations. Since its acquisition in 1993, E-mu Systems was a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology, Ltd.. E-Mu was last based in Scotts Valley, California, on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. Unofficially founded in 1970 by Scott Wedge...
Oakley Synthesizers is a manufacturer of high-quality self-built analog synth modules.
ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties. The company earned a reputation for producing excellent sounding, innovative instruments and was granted several patents for the technology it developed.
The Casio Computer Company, Limited (カシオ計算機株式会社 Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, cameras, musical instruments and watches. It was founded in 1946, and in 1957 released the world's first entirely electric compact calculator. Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio (樫尾忠雄), an engineer specializing in fabrication...
Elby Designs was set up in early 2003 in an attempt to support the synthesiser do-it-yourself (SDIY) market by providing access to a range of component kits for a number of popular PCB designs. Although the PCB's were readily available, gathering all the components to construct the design often required multiple sourcing for components and, in some cases, unrealistic minimum-order-quantities making it impractical for many builders. At the time, the ASM-1 from Gene Stopp was the main focus but...
Akai (Chinese: 雅佳; pinyin: Yǎjiā, Japanese: Akai in rōmaji) is a consumer electronics brand, founded by Masukichi Akai and his son, Saburo Akai as Akai Electric Company Ltd. (赤井電機株式会社 Akai Denki Kabushiki-gaisha?). It is now headquartered in Singapore as a subsidiary of Grande Holdings, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, which also owns the formerly Japanese brands Nakamichi and Sansui. The Akai brand is now used to rebadge electronics manufactured by other companies....
MFB was founded in 1976 by engineer Manfred Fricke. So far there were more than some hundred products constructed and distributed. The first developments and products were primarly video games for industrial playmachines. A lowcost drummachine was introduced in 1979. (98 DM for the self construction kit). In 1980 the legendary drumcomputer MFB-501 was finished and sold. Although it was not the most prominent drumcomputer of that time it surely was one of the best selling drum units in Germany....
Moog synthesizer may refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for older-generation analog music synthesizers. The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems in the mid 1960s. The technological development that led to the creation of the Moog synthesizer was the invention of the transistor, which enabled researchers like Moog to build...
Oberheim Electronics is an American company, founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim (a former designer and contract manufacturer for Maestro), which manufactures audio synthesizers and a variety of other electronic musical instruments.
Sequential Circuits Inc. (SCI) was a California-based synthesizer company that was founded in the early 1970s by Dave Smith, and sold to Yamaha Corporation in 1987. Throughout its lifespan, Sequential pioneered technologies and design principles that have served as a foundation for the development of modern music technology. Sequential was also pivotal in the planning, design, and support of 1982's groundbreaking innovation in electronic music, MIDI.
Miscellaneous Synthesizer Manuals.
It occurred to Don one day to build an instrument actually intended for electronic music performance. He created the 100 series Modular Electronic Music System (1963). And a few years later (1970), the 200 series Electric Music Box. Minicomputers became affordable, and Don built the first hybrid (digitally controlled analog synthesizer) – the 500 series (1971). And along came microcomputers and the series 300 (using series 200 analog modules combined with 300 series digital modules). A hot...
Synthetic Sound Labs: Sensible Modern Devices for Electric, Steam, Pneumatic and Aether Powered Musical Instrumentation.
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio plugins and signal processors for the professional and consumer electronics audio markets. Heard on hit records, major motion pictures, and popular video games worldwide, Waves’ cutting-edge software and hardware processors are used in every aspect of audio production, from tracking to mixing to mastering, broadcast, live sound, and more. Waves offers Native and SoundGrid audio plugins in VST, TDM, RTAS, and AU formats for Pro Tools, Logic,...
Waldorf Music AG is a German synthesizer company. It was founded on 1 January 2003 to take over the actual business of the Waldorf Electronics GmbH which had become insolvent. Waldorf is best known for its Microwave wavetable synthesizer and Q virtual analogue synthesizer lines. Waldorf Electronics GmbH was founded 1988 by Wolfgang Düren. Before this Wolfgang Düren was the German distributor of PPG. The name of this company refers to the German town Waldorf (near to the former capital of West...
Topics: data, program, mode, track, midi, key, disk, timbre, edit, combination, drum kit, sequence data,...
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Novation Digital Music Systems Ltd. is a UK musical equipment manufacturer, founded in 1992 by Ian Jannaway and Mark Thompson as Novation Electronic Music Systems. Today the company specialises in MIDI controllers with and without keyboards, both analogue and virtual analogue performance synthesisers (in particular using Analogue Sound Modelling in which the waveforms are generated digitally based on samples of analogue oscillators), grid-based performance controllers, and DJ controllers and...
Propellerhead Software is a music software company, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and founded in 1994. They are most notable for the studio emulation Reason. Propellerhead Software was founded in 1994 by Ernst Nathorst-Böös, Marcus Zetterquist and Peter Jubel, who still hold prominent positions within the company.[1] Their first release was ReCycle, a sample loop editor that could change the tempo of a loop without affecting the pitch. The export medium was Propellerhead's own REX format....
Maplin Electronics is a retailer of electronic goods in the UK and Ireland.
Established in 1980, Alesis was founded on innovative semi-conductor chip technology and award winning industrial designs that allowed entry level musicians and recording artists to afford professional studio recording products that were never affordable before. With high “bang for the buck” value, Alesis introduced the world’s first professional 16 bit effects processor under $1000, the Midiverb. Following on the heels of the Midiverb, Alesis progressed into studio quality drum machines...
Steinberg GmbH is a German musical software and equipment company based in Hamburg. It mainly produces music recording, arranging and editing software as used in digital audio workstations and VSTi software synthesizers. The company was founded in 1984 by Karl Steinberg and Manfred Rürup with the support of Nicole Rürupand the Headquarters is in Hamburg. Its first product was the MIDI sequencer Steinberg Pro 16 for the Commodore 64. The company changed its name from Steinberg Research to...
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Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music volume 1
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Topics: key, track, pattern, composer, main, mode, midi, button, enter, rhythm, main key, shift key,...
Topics: preset, ddl, midi, rev, reverb, increments, button, presets, delay, multiverb, input level, remote...
Make Noise Co. is a manufacturer of synthesizer modules and systems.
Korg Trident MK1 Service Manual
In the beginning there were two friends, Frédéric Brun and Gilles Pommereuil, both students at INPG, Grenoble Institute of Technology - France. Both of them were part of the University Orchestra. Frédéric was playing the violin and Gilles was conducting. Since… ever, technology had changed the way people made music. But this trend accelerated in the 60’s. In the late 90’s, it was clear it was not about to stop. Frédéric and Gilles, both engineers, shared this vision that technology...
Topics: data, advanced, sound, midi, mode, disk, patch, display, partial, volume, sound data, hard disk,...
The LinnDrum (or Linn LM-2, the company's official designation) was a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics and the successor to the Linn LM-1. It was introduced in 1982 at a list price of $2,995. The LinnDrum had 15 drum sounds sampled from real drums played for the machine specifically by noted Los Angles Drummer ART WOOD, good friend of Roger Linn who also played with Roger Linn as well as Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Cher , Tina Turner, Bette Midler and James Brown to name a few...
Topics: parameter, patch, midi, aaaa, mode, data, parameters, tone, pitch, switch, oaaa aaaa, voice...
EXB PCM05 owner's manual
Topics: synth, regular, karma, die, bass, sie, drum, disk, poly, karma music, synth poly, drum pattern,...
Electronic Music Laboratories, commonly abbreviated to EML, was an audio synthesizer company. Founded in 1968 in Vernon, Connecticut by four former engineers, the company manufactured and designed a variety of synthesizers sharing the same basic design but configured in different ways. The company originated by accident, after Dale Blake, Norman Millard, Dennis Daugherty, and Jeff Murray, employees of Gerber Scientific, founded the company in order to ensure that they all continued to have a...
Topics: input, voltage, circuit, output, key, adjust, terminal, wave, buffer, capacitor, circuit board,...
Yamaha: SPX-90 owner's manual
Topics: midi, program, signal, parameter, delay, msec, trigger, input, pitch, memory, input signal, pitch...
Topics: voice, data, function, pitch, modulation, mode, midi, memory, lfo, amplitude, data entry, pitch...
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TipTop audio is a new manufacturer of Eurorack moules from Hollywood, California, specialised in analogue and digital circuitry. After the Z5000 multi effect module the analog Z3000 Smart VCO is the next one and more will follow.
Owner's manual for the Roland TB-303. Contents: Battery Replacement and Precautions, Bass and the TB-303, The Basic Idea Behind the TB-303, Connection and Initial Settings, Writing and Playing a Bass Line (Part 1), The Tone Control Section and Tuning, Writing the Length of the Notes (Alternative Method), Writing and Playing a Bass Line (Part 2), To write your own Bass Lines, Useful Functions of the Track, Applied Method of the TB-303, Troubleshooting, Sound Range Table, Specifications.
Topics: pattern, measure, bass, mode, selector, button, track, press, pitch, writing, bass pattern, step...
Owner's manual for the Roland TR-606. Introduction, Basic Course (basic connections, front and back panel layout, writing rhythm patterns, playing rhythm patterns, composing the rhythm track, playing the rhythm track), Advanced Course (control descriptions, other connections, playing rhythm patterns, writing rhythm patterns, composing the rhythm track, sample rhythms, specifications).
Topics: rhythm, selector, track, button, pattern, bar, step, press, tap, patterns, pattern group, rhythm...
The “LUNAR EXPERIENCE“ group of musicians & engineers is developing modules for analog modular synthesizers following the 5U standard. Main objective is being ease of use, especially in live performance situations, on stage and in the studio. In the last five years our continuously growing line of products – partly based on our customers’ suggestions – does include modules that do allow to explore new ways to generate trigger signals and control voltages, to process control...
Topics: signal, synthesizer, polyphonic, modulation, frequency, input, voltage, output, mixer, switch,...
Owner's manual for the Roland W-50 synthesizer. Introduction, Features, Important Notes, Panel Descriptions, Play Some Music on Your W-50 (getting ready, demo song playback, W-50 overview, about parts, about tones, about drum sets, about organ tones, convenient performance features, functions convenient for live performance, creating original tones, creating your own drum sets, altering the W-50's settings, instantly changing settings, lessons using music data, real-time control over external...
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Owner's manual for the Roland TR-909 rhythm composer. Operation, Basic Course (Sound Check, Pattern Write and Play, Track Program and Play, Tape Interface), Advanced Course (Variations of Writing Rhythm Patterns, Edit Functions, Other Functions), MIDI, Specifications/Options.
Topics: rhythm, pattern, enter, press, shift, button, tempo, track, key, mode, rhythm pattern, shift...
The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small-sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet ? chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation LLC. Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue it was then refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speech-like sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps, alarms, noise and retro-style sci-fi sounds. Due to the structure of the Speakjet ? (with its complex sound...
Waldorf Microwave (service manual,schematics)
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The Complete DX7- H oward Massey , Softcover (1986) (Based on the Yamaha DX7 keyboard) Synopsis: Based upon his intensive workshops at PASS (Public Access Synthesizer Studio> in New York , Howard Massey has written the most complete and informative guide to the Yamaha DX7 , the most popular synthesizer in the world. The book begins with basic audio theory, the controls of the DX7 , and the use of carriers and modulators in FM synthesis . Howard Massey has been...
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Yamaha CS 15D service manual
Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH is a manufacturer of audio hardware, mostly synthesizer modules (modular synthesizer) based in Gräfelfing, Germany, founded by Dieter Döpfer. The product range covers analog modular systems, MIDI controllers, MIDI hardware sequencers, MIDI-to-CV/Gate/Sync Interfaces, MIDI master keyboards and special MIDI equipment. Dieter Döpfer began developing audio hardware with a Voltage Controlled Phaser (VCP) module for the Formant, a do-it-yourself-kit analog synthesizer...
Manuals from Rupert Neve's Synthesizer company.
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Learning Music With Synthesizers
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SR JV80 10 owner's manual
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