What the fuck is this thing?

There's one of these for sale locally for like $50 and the ad says it's fully functional. 

Seriously the weirdest instrument I have ever seen. 

Wtf O_o

$50 ?

you can't NOT get it. 

home organ with accordian style interface. may get some sounds out of it but for the size, might not be worth the space sacrifice? who knows though?

It's worth buying even just to flip it. I found a few for 3-400 euros?

  On 1/17/2017 at 5:18 PM, Chesney said:

may get some sounds out of it but for the size

Wonder if it's the synth behind the Thomas the Tank Engine theme tune (from 20 secs onwards)

must have skipped past the good ones ha

an elka synthesizer for $50? instabuy.

might have midi too, the concorde 811 does...if so will be well versatile innit

Make an album with it and tour nursing homes. Call the album "Art's Got a Hearing Aide".

if you are a super nerd you could look into figuring out which resistors to replace with potentiometers and rly hot rod that baby. i bet she would open up p juicy!

Looks IDM, sounds like cheez nerdcore, prolly weighs 100kg.

Clean it up and flip that mofo (as per buffmotherfucker's post)

the chromatic knob keyboard thingy is quite common in the balkan region..kolo stuff..

ouch!

but otherwise, bulky and mostly preset-based sounds..a typical performer organ... might be unflippable due to this fact. i've got a yamaha electone hx-5 standing around somewhere, literally unsellable even with an ultralow price tag..grunt

Dunno why presets are a bad thing - like 'crappy' casio keyboards, as long as there's an output jack just put it through some effects pedals or post-process recordings and mangle the fuck out of it.

Since it's so cheap, only consideration really is size and heft of the thing.

lol a lot of you are miserable buggers. it sounds fucking wicked, likely has midi, has stereo output...i'd fucking love one of these...

skip to 2:02 (also 3:57) in the op vid for that PWSteal.Ldpinch.D/It Doesn't Matter beat shit. well good.

Who's miserable? I was thinking more real estate, There is no way I'd move one of my big synths out of the way for this thing. You're right though, anything can sound great if affected. I use cheap keyboards all the time but they don't take up any room. If you have the space, go for it, why not, got nothing to lose. I personally don't think it would give me enough to warrant the space taken.

  On 1/18/2017 at 12:27 PM, oscillik said:

Dunno why presets are a bad thing -

i did not say that, did i.

The Enola Gay lead pad sounds pretty awesome.

  On 1/18/2017 at 2:25 PM, Chesney said:

Who's miserable?

only messing about ;) i wouldn't have room either but for $50 i'd have to get it anyway...maybe keep it in the lounge and have singalongs

What a weird looking thing. Totally pick one up!

And yeah for organs of this type presets are kosher.

I kind of want to sample that track at 2:03.

Is the seller a Mr. A. Jenkinson?

The open hat sound is nice and the floor tom hit sounds pretty fucking beastly. Bass could be good too, pretty basic sounds in that video though. I want to know if there's anything interesting in all those buttons up top, or if they're just basic 'voice' switchers for the sounds (most likely).

  On 1/18/2017 at 2:25 PM, Chesney said:

Who's miserable? I was thinking more real estate, There is no way I'd move one of my big synths out of the way for this thing. 

Yah, my space in Tokyo is kind of small, so if I had that beast in my room, I could charge rent and have people sleep on it.

  On 1/17/2017 at 9:45 AM, slightlydrybeans said:

There's one of these for sale locally for like $50 and the ad says it's fully functional. 

 

 

Seriously the weirdest instrument I have ever seen. 

goddamn lovely retro kitsch factory right there, what a cool random find - it's like a super combo of various cheesy organs, drum machines, keyboards, etc