I think I'm finally going to sell one of my treasures.
No it's not the ARP 2500 or any Buchla! In monetary terms it not in their league.
This is more of a sentimental loss.
I friend wants to buy my Pioneer CDJ 1000. It's a Mark1 .... the first CDJ I bought. This was back in 2001.
I'm trying to create some room so it seems logical to sell, and I have some fine Pioneer 2000 Nexus's
which do everything except cook my dinner.
Back in 2001 I think I paid something like $3000. I only bought one .. it was all I could afford.
But it allowed me to play my own tracks in the club. I used one vinyl deck & one CDJ1000.
The CDJ-1000 (retroactively known as the mk1 after the release of mk2) is generally accepted as the first CD player that can accurately emulate a vinyl turntable - including the ability to scratch - This is why it quickly became the market leader and the club standard.
The original mk1 was discontinued in 2003 during the introduction of the mk2 into the market.
The CDJ-1000 (and its reincarnations) are currently the most widely used DJ-style CD
decks to be found in the booths of the world's best nightclubs.
I'm half hoping my friend changes his mind and decides not to buy this. There are MarkIIs galore but few Mark Is. Like the Technics 1200 is considered to be a icon of the 20th century, I think this will come to be recognised as a icon of the 21st century.
Set filter resonance all the way up and use an LFO to modulate the
cutoff.
The 2500 doesn't have a dedicated LFO, but the 1023 VCO module has a slow range
which does a fine job here.... though a separate LFO would be useful.
I'm also using an envelope and some random voltages to modulate the LFO speed.
You could also just turn the LFO speed knob by hand.
I've always wanted one of these.
The 1045 is virtually a whole synthesizer in one package.
It has a VCO, a low pass VCF, a VCA & two envelope generators.
EG 1 controls the VCF, and EG 2 does the VCA.
The module seems to be made up of half a 1023 VCO, a 1006 filtamp (except that there is no audio mixer at the input) and two 1003 envelope generator circuits.
I really like the sound of the filter in this module. It gives great character.
The outputs of both envelope gens can also be used to modulate other modules.
The lower section is where your external modulation inputs can be found. Both have attenuators.
The EG outputs are here too.
The VCF & VCA can either be voltage controlled externally with other modules or internally with old fashioned knob tweaking and/or the built in EGs. How versatile !!
Your waveform selector. The oscillator is based on the 1023 VCO.
This upper section is very interesting.
An envelope is initiated when signals are applied to both the gate (shown by the square) & trigger (the decaying pulse) inputs. This is what happens from the keyboard.
The output of the EG stays at the sustain level for the duration of the gate.
Without a trigger signal, the EG will still output a voltage so long as there is a gate.
Some pics of the 1045 patch. I'm only using one 1045 - the right one.
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