GONE FT: Abildgard Sound Droid 3

[octavecat]

short form:
Rare, insanely powerful nasty little dual DCO box with full parametric control from Logic or Live. Looking to trade for similarly special things.

long form:
There are less than 30 of these in the world. I have one of the three that exist in the USA. Yes the price listed on the Abildgard site is $795USD, but that is irrelevant — they have been out of production for ~15 years.

http://abildgard.com/droid3/

audio:
http://abildgard.com/droid3/demos.html

what makes it special:
- amazing lo-fi dco sound but not at all like SID; thick and mean.
- syncable oscs with fm, looping envelopes, arpeggiator
- dual multimode filter
- logic environment +
- max & max4live patch = fully automatable with software

It's too hard to put a price on it so I'd rather trade for similar esoterica. It's hard to put a specific category on that, so I'll just say, like this Droid, things that will continue to go up in value over time, not down.

Happy to provide more pics, sounds, whatever if you need.

Thanks!

full specs:

• Output
Mode 1: 10500 Hz, 8 bit, S/N ~ 80 dB average (when LEDs are disabled)
Mode 2: 13300 Hz, 8 bit, S/N ~ 80 dB average (DCO 2 output, envelopes, filter and LEDs disabled)
• 2 monophonic DCOs
Waveforms: Saw up, saw down, square (0-100% pulse width), tri, noise, S&H noise, digital and silent
4 overload modes (for each DCO)
Retrig on/off (for each DCO)
Key follow on/off (for each DCO)
Sync slave mode for DCO 1
• 2 envelopes
Offset, attack, attack level, decay, sustain level and release
Legato mode
Loop mode: Envelope 1 = retrig LFO w/fade in, envelope 2 = LFO/free run
• Filter
Mode 1: Low, high, band pass or band rejection - all w/input boost option
Mode 2: High or/and low pass
• Matrix modulation
16 sources:
Envelope 1
Envelope 2
DCO 1
DCO 2
Pitch bend
Pitch bend downscaled
Modulation
Velocity
Gate
Velocity gate
Channel pressure
Key follow
Key follow upscaled
Hold pedal
Expression pedal
Breath control
15 destinations:
Arpeggio speed
DCO 1 amplitude
DCO 1 pitch
DCO 1 waveform
DCO 1 pulse width
DCO 1 offset
DCO 2 amplitude
DCO 2 pitch
DCO 2 waveform
DCO 2 pulse width
DCO 2 offset
Envelope 1 offset
Envelope 2 offset
Filter cutoff
Filter width (or cutoff2)
• Arpeggio
4-note buffer - very fast
• Step mode
Decreases Envelope 2 and DCO2 output resolution 0-7 bits

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[octavecat]

Gone!