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David Vandenborn is blogging his progress restoring a vintage Fairlight synthesizer:
Lately I’ve been busy restoring a Series IIx that had sustained serious damage from a leaked battery. Thanks to Peter Wielk at Horizontal Productions I was able to replace the broken cards. And after some extra debugging, the alphanumeric keyboard wasn’t working, I’m able to [...]

 

Arturia have released version 1.2 of their ARP2600V soft synth, a virtual recreation of the Arp 2600.
What’s new:

Universal Binary support
VST 2.4 Cubase 4 ready
A new installer, regrouping all previous updates

The update is a free download for registered users.

 

Here’s your chance, synth freaks, to own a small part of synth history - Klaus Schulze’s Korg PS 3300, above.
Here’s the synth in Schulze’s studio, back in the day:

Here’s the eBay info, via 550wooby: