ultimate percussion k2-x "super analogue synthesizer system"

Stanley Pain

anyone heard of this synth? i'll post pics when i have access to a camera.

a friend of mine picked one up from an abandoned house. it looks very interesting, but we're going to have a look at the power supply before we plug it in and have a listen...

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:04 am Post subject:

Is it a flat thingie, rack ears, ..greenish or olive or ?? 8 perc channels?

Shocked

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

exactly that

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:52 am Post subject:

Ooooooooh.... Ooooooooh.... Ooooooooh....

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

ok, so it doesn't work... yet

i have no idea about this and a cursory look online doesn't yield any good results.

it certainly looks interesting, lots of outputs per sound generator as well as stereo output and headphones output. my friend is getting the pics off his camera as i type.

i've never seen anything quite like this. i suspect the fuse on the board has blown, so really i need to figure out where i can get a replacement.

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

Open it up and post some closeups of the boards

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

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elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

Ay

can you get closer to the ICs???

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

believe me i will do! thanks very much for the interest, but i have to rehearse then go to a gig!

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

iPassenger · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Looks cool.

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

They look like this:

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I´d like to know what is on the board you see. That will actually be pretty interesting to know.

Say, can I move this into one of the gear forums later on? I´d also like to post something about this device in the DIY forum.

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

absolutely, let me know where you put it!

Smile

still rehearsing for my gigs this weekend, so you might have to wait until next week before you get the pics... Surprised

drapdap · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: UP k2x

O ye!

i was waiting for ages for this to show up, just out of pure curiosity.
i do have this machine in my room along with its smaller brother, which is just 5 drum voices with 5 trigger inputs and 1 mono/stereo output with a few switches. it also has the pretentious text "super analogue synthetiser system" written on it, however both are drum machines. you can get pretty nice things out of these, the snare is just wonderful, i never managed to do a snare like it on my g2 engine, so i often have the nord trigger these.
the k2x even has built in preset patterns with tempo which are not that bad at all.

róbert

EdisonRex · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: UP k2x

drapdap · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject: Re: UP k2x

yes, shure, but not before the weekend, i don't have a photoapparat, have to borrow one. Smile

please be patient.

Stanley Pain · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:36 am Post subject:

sorry i've been lame not posting pics, my schedule hasn't synced with the guys who found it yet! he's got the camera, i've got the synth!
i'm off to a festival for a few days, hope to get it up soon.

drapdap's post has made me determined to get it working...

Nosferatu · Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 234 Location: Planet Rock.

I have seen it in music stores back in the 80'es, UK made similar to SDS
something, cant remember which, but are you sure the house was
abandoned? no no

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

Nosferatu · Joined: Jul 27, 2007 Posts: 234 Location: Planet Rock.

How moronic, this must be the worst naming ever on a analog drum module! Rolling Eyes

Googling gives kurtzweil all the time, or anything else thats not UP! Laughing

drapdap · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:04 am Post subject:

hello there!
i promised this to editor rex, the pics ov the smaller ultimate percussion.
also i did some pics of the big one as well, looked after the ic's, sorry no schemo yet.

róbert

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drapdap · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:21 am Post subject:

Note the hole for the rackmount in middle of the ears, its actually quite a nice thing. As for the K2-X, i looked at the ic's: the first and the third row is LM324 quad opamps, they are common today. the second row is CA3080 OTA`s, i believe those are available as well. the rest are 4 of 4558`s. Trannies are BC557 and somethings i do not not know, would have to soldier out one of the to see properly. my fuse is 250mA, 250v if you wonder.

At a certain period lot of these things were around, drum brains that could be triggered. I like the Snare, it has a bit of bleed-thru if you trigger it with audio, it might even be just white noise, but its quite sensitive to the input, usable... the bass is not so nice (or just not deep enough for my taste) you can get so much nicer things out of simpler things now, (let apart a nord modular), or even with lowpass filtering the bloody thing. it wouldn`t be hard to measure it and come up with a schemo, but to be honest id go for Thomas Henry's drum voice or the clangora if i were You.

(Actually on the second thought i might be wrong, i might measure it and breadboard a channel to see what can be done with this, and than modify the beast if it goes any better with mods. The flat box and big pots are sort of nice, sort of gigable, tho i terribly hate plastic potmeters somehow. i tend to brake them during alcohol-fuelled gigs.)

r.

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mine is still a waste, i never bothered to fix it (yet!).

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i hope you can read. :)

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EdisonRex · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:22 am Post subject:

Thanks!

Hmm. Never seen that thing before.

drapdap · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:31 am Post subject:

you're welcome!
(good excuse for me to do my first few posts!)
and erm... some more pics. i don't know how happy Mosc will be with me, wasting space here, but since so many attachments got lost recently, i know there is lots of space here... Twisted Evil

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the ic's

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the last one, i promise!

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