If you’re looking for the nerdiest way possible to market a music album, you’re going to have a tough time one-upping Aphex Twin. The Warp Records artist has used a rare British synth as the cornerstone of the record – one with a reputation for being impossible to use – alongside a speech synth for the ZX Spectrum computer. He and his label have been teasing the resulting EP with marketing that looks like a vintage synth flyer.But that’s not even the biggest measure of how serious he is about this.
Aphex Twin went so far as to rent a booth at the summer NAMM musical instrument fair – the last place you’d expect to see a record promoted – to talk about the album. And all that just to show off this weird synth.First, here’s the flyer – which is a work of genius and a thing of beauty:It looks like convincing parody of something you’d see in Keyboard Magazine in 1982, really. The release itself will follow a similar aesthetic:But that’s just a clever gimmick. The booth is when we reach the next level.I’ve actually never been to summer NAMM, held now in Nashville.
The MS6 was built by a British company called Cheetah, who started out. Also, the service manual for the Oberheim Matrix-6/6R can be of a certain value as it. To the Internet Archive Community, Time is running out: please help the Internet Archive today. The average donation is $45. If everyone chips in $5, we can keep our website independent, strong and ad-free. That's right, all we need is the price of a paperback book to sustain a non-profit library the whole world depends on.
But Synthtopia were there to talk to a label rep and see just what was going on:SynthtopiaI’m not British, and I hope I’m not middle aged yet. (When does that start, precisely? Eesh, I may be close. I suppose it depends on where the end is?) So I didn’t know the synth, made as a budget digital wave sequencing model MS800 in the 90s.
But here’s the story of the synth – and it’s hilarious:If you’re British, middle aged and a bit of a synth anorak, the chances are you will have heard of Cheetah.
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I've just finishing a little modification on it which involves exchanging the old noisy MN3009 chips with still-in-production MN3007's. See here:However. I'm now having trouble with a strange clicking sound that occurs when the chorus is on.
There's one large 'pop' which is regular every couple of seconds, and a lot of quieter smaller clicks occurring under it. Good news is the wooshy 'waves breaking on the beach' noise has been reduced dramatically.
The theory behind replacing MN3009's with MN3007's is pretty solid and it has been done with success so I don't think that's the problemo.The ticking popping noise seems to be a common problem and my current hypothesis is that the transistors are bad. I'd like to replace them all but unfortunately the manual doesn't actually specify the value of the transistors on the jack board. I've read on this threadthat 'replacing the 2SC2878 transistors with new ones solves the problem', but some are PNP and some are NPN and I'm struggling to work out what I need to buy to replace them.Can anyone help me work out which transistors I need to get? For reference the codes of the transistors inside are 115 47E and 603 47E.Here's a copy of the service manual:. I originally had the 2k2's in there, but since the MN3007's are x4 larger capacity or whatever I divided 8.4 by 4 and 2.05.
I agree it is a pretty 'weirdass' value but the original webpage states: The reason I say this is that the 2.2 kΩ suggestion on that web page could be as much as 13% too high, resulting in a longer delay than original. Assuming the factory resistors are 5%, the 2.2 kΩ resistors could change the tone of the chorus. It's cheap enough to literally divide the original resistor values by 4 and just spend a few pennies more to keep the delay times as close to original as possible.