Modular Synthesizer Pictures

neandrewthal · Joined: May 11, 2007 Posts: 672 Location: Canada

Only one of the biggest Shocked

I'm just curious, what is the modcan/cynthia/diy(any non-commercially produced modules?) ratio?

Jyoti · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:19 am Post subject:

Cynthia · Joined: Oct 25, 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Los Angeles

Howdy!

Here is a rough inventory of the system
guessing that about 50% are Cynthia Modules,
30% are Modcan Modules, and 20% are prototypes.

The system is 44 module spaces wide by 5 rows high (220 Units Total)

(10) Cynthia MixSix Mixers
(8) Cynthia Anything Modules
(6) Cynthia Dual ADSRs
(6) Cynthia Blacet Dark Star Chaos
(5) Cynthia Zeroscillators
(4) Modcan Oscillators 01A
(4) Modcan Reset LFOs 26A
(4) Modcan Super Delays 30A
(4) Modcan Joysticks 32A
(4) Modcan Quadraphonics 33A
(4) Modcan VC Spring Reverbs
(4) Cynthia CGS Super Psycho LFOs
(4) Cynthia Motm Sub Mux Deluxe
(4) Cynthia Dual Sawtooth Animators
(4) Cynthia CGS Burst Generators
(4) Cynthia Photon Interfaces
(4) Cynthia Buchla Quad Low Pass Gates
(4) Cynthia Milton Sequencers 4x16
(3) Cynthia Serge Programmers 4x5
(2) Cynthia CGS Gate Sequencers
(2) Modcan VC Flangers 38A
(2) Modcan Envelope Followers 45A
(2) Modcan VC Crossfades 16A
(2) Modcan Dual Mixers 27A
(2) Cynthia Octal VCAs
(2) Cynthia Encore UEGs
(2) Cynthia Prime Dividers
(2) Cynthia Rhythmic Dividers
(2) Cynthia CGS Gated Comparators
(2) Cynthia Staircase Comparators
(2) Cynthia CGS Psycho Shift Registers
(2) Cynthia StereOspace
(2) Cynthia RanDivides
(2) Cynthia ScanOpans
(2) Cynthia FilterLabs
(2) Cynthia Synthacon Filters
(2) Cynthia Motm Triple Resonant Filters
(2) Cynthia Twin Wasp Filters
(2) Cynthia MK LCR25 Monitor Speakers
(2) Cynthia Interface Modules
(2) Doepfer Dual Quantizers
(1) Cynthia Octal VCA
(1) Cynthia Octal Unary Processor
(1) Cynthia Moog Dual Pitch-to-Voltage
(1) Cynthia Joy Gate 16-ch LPG
(1) Cynthia CGS Roland Quad Bandpass Filter
(1) Cynthia VC Tabla
(1) Cynthia GCS Dual Chimes
(1) Cynthia CGS Dual Toms
(1) Cynthia Macintosh
(1) Cynthia Touchscreen Monitor
(1) Cynthia CGS Analog Switch
(1) Cynthia Motm Bipedal Interface
(1) Cynthia Dual Analog Keyboard Interface
(1) Cyntghia VoxGlitch Pattern Generator
(1) Modcan Quantized Sequencer 17A
(1) Modcan Pulse Divider 20A
(1) Modcan Morph Peak & Trough 12A
(1) Modcan Dual LFO 05A
(1) Modcan Quad LFO 03A
(1) Modcan CEM Filter 29A
(1) Modcan Polyfusion Low Pass 14A
(1) Modcan Polyfusion High Pass 15A
(1) Modcan Moog 904 Filter 44A
(1) Modcan Moog Ladder Filter 02A
(1) Modcan Arp 4075 Filter 36A
(1) Modcan Wave 19A
(1) Dotcom MIDI Converter
(1) Blacet MiniWave 22A & Hylander Board
(1) Modcan VC Envelope 04A
(1) Modcan Timbre Modulators 06A
(1) Cynthia Barbour Eyetube Modulator
(1) Modcan Noise Sample & Hold 07A
(2) Modcan Quad Mixer/Panners 11A
(2) Modcan Dual Mixer/Panners 21A
(1) Modcan Frequency Shifter 39A
(1) Modcan Vector / Mixer 34A

(1) Yamaha P90 Weighted Keyboard Controller
(1) Motu 828 Interface & Mac G5 Computer
(1) Ramsa 16x4 Mixer
(2) Stereo Ramsa Amps
(4) Ramsa Monitor Speakers

System Signal flow is from Left to Right.

The Cabinets on the far left are mainly rhythm generation & logic,
the middle four cabinet rows are four complex voices,
there is also a set of quad this-and-that for another set of simpler
quad voices, (a section I lovingly call The Quadlies), and the near right include exotic processors like VC Flangers and Frequency Shifters...
Finally on the far right are the final output & quad panning sections.
Sequencers are across the top to keep the knobs from being bumped accidentally, and most of the I/O modules are at the bottom to keep cables out of the way.

Jyoti · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:44 am Post subject:

(faints)

Pehr

Awesome system! Very Happy

seraph · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:20 am Post subject:

http://www.cyndustries.com/modules_minimac.cfm

Pehr · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:43 am Post subject:

Yes, that's the one. Smile

But where is it in the picture? Very Happy

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

Cynthia · Joined: Oct 25, 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Los Angeles

The Mac mini lives in the far right bottom cabinet, you can see the 8 inch touchscreen monitor in the middle right behind the stereo microphone, and the Mac lives in the two panel space to the left of that. In spite of getting a lot of interesting press, we actually only sold one of them (!), so I made another for myself and a few extra panels, but haven't assembled it properly yet. It's kind of kluged in pieces in the rear. Naturally my first priority is to my customers, and I usually get the modules with bad scratches or blemishes/bubbles in the anodizing for my own system.

The Touchscreen monitors also display standard NTSC & PAL Video and the creation of these Monitor modules is also a small step towards creating the infrastructure necessary for video synthesis, but so far that has been a somewhat unobtainable goal as a great deal of the semis are now obsolete, and it is arcane knowledge. It may still happen, as the look of analog synthesis (chrome morphing blobs for example) is still unlike anything I've seen done digitally (in realtime) to date. (Any interested analog video engineers are more than welcome to contact me).

The M&K Speakers are Xenon Series LCR25 right off the shelf. They're possibly the best little speakers like that made, however after having a whole stack of front panel adapter plates made, M&K promptly went out of business! You can still find them occasionally on ebay, you may have to paint them black yourself, and we have plenty of Modcan format adapter plates available, lol! Due to their small size, they don't have a whole lot of bass, so I have a M&K Subwoofer on the floor next to the system.

Thanks everyone for your very kind comments!

Cynthia

zthee · Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Stockholm

Cynthia, Your system is just awsome!

I just finished my modular Smile

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a.b.o.z. · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

I just saw it on matrixsynth,
congratz!!!!
give us some sounds now!!!
great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

State Machine · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

zthee · Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Stockholm

State Machie, The red light from inside is the LEDs from the 2 PSUs Wink

kkissinger · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

zthee · Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Stockholm

Kkissinger, I built the case and drew the panels myself. It contains the following modules:

TH XRVCO x 2
TH VCO-1 x 2
MFOS Dual VCA
MFSO ADSR
CGS Wavemultiplier
CGS Digital noise
CGS Analogue shift register
CGS VCA
CGS Suboscillator
CGS Wavetable
CGS Gate to trigger
CGS Synthacon
Fonitroik PS3100 Resonator
Fonitronik Dual Buchla Lowpass Gate
Fonitronik Dual Buchlaesque CV processor
Topp 281 Function generator
EFM LFO
EFM ADSR + VCA
EFM Transistor Ladder filter
MSC175 Dual VCS

I'll promise to post some tunes in the future..

RF · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:03 am Post subject:

Amazing Job! Beautiful.

kkissinger · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:09 am Post subject:

State Machine · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

zthee · Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Stockholm

RF, Thanks!

Kkissinger, Here's a 2 min drone I did yesterday http://zthee.vantage.ch/Modularen.mp3 - (And a picture of the patch) Smile

State Machine, Thanks!

kkissinger · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

zthee, thanks for posting the pic and the .mp3. Your synth has a great sound, indeed!

Funky40 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

JohnLRice · Joined: Jul 29, 2008 Posts: 71 Location: Western WA USA

kkissinger · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

Thank you for the heads-up. I'm following this auction with interest.

Cynthia · Joined: Oct 25, 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Los Angeles

Thank You zThee!

Love the look of your panels and the curved case design is fantastic.

Looks like you'll have to build another one at the rate that you're going.

Keep up the great work!

Cynthia

3vcos · Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 107 Location: California

zthee...

How did you make those panels?

thnks