From geoff@apanix.apana.org.au Fri Sep  2 10:07:17 1994
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 23:18:26 +0930 (CST)
From: Geoff Peters <geoff@apanix.apana.org.au>
To: analogue@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: More on Devilfish & Robin Whittle

> >I have heard of the 303 being referred to as a DEVILFISH before, bud didnt
> >realize that it must have been a modified one. This mod was published
> >somewhere, WHERE???   Has anyone ever heard or seen this? (This guy wont 
> >share it with me).
> 
> The Devilfish modifications are made and done by Robin Whittle in Melbourne
> OZ.  I have seen one and played with the first one he ever did and man did
> it blow me away.  CV in, triplets, better filters and about 15 new knobs
> and buttons.  I does make a 303 look ugly so put your 303 in a rack and it
> looks unreal!
> 
> The compnay is called Robin Whittle Designs.  I dont have the number as he
> is really expensive -> $1000 (AUS) for the Devilfish mod.  He does other
> mods as well but the same applies he is expensive.

Robin Whittle, a.k.a. Real World Interfaces / Robin Whittle Design Works,
of 9 Miller Street, Heidelberg Heights, VIC 3081.

This guy's been around for simply *ages*. Possibly Australia's foremost
synth-hacker, he's got mods & retrofits for just about anything you care
to name - and if he doesn't have something, he can design it.

I'm the proud owner of one of his products, the world's first MIDI
retrofit system (circa 1984, a matter of weeks after MIDI was announced)
which will work on *any* digitally-scanned keyboard - mine's fitted into
one of my CS-70M's, and it's performed flawlessly for the past eight years.

Other goodies which are unique to Robin include
- Triple 6 (voice, programming & s/n improvements to the TR-606)
- MIDI retrofit for the Jupiter-8 which, apart from the normal functions,
  modifies the sound generators so that the VCA's respond to velocity
  information, and an amazing twist called Filter FM (VCO2 freq. modulates
  the VCF's cutoff freq)
- new FX prgrograms for old multi-FX units from Alesis, Yamaha & Roland
- new wavetables for the DX-7, TX-7 and TX-x16 (replaces the built-in
  sine waves with 12 new waves)
... and lots of others.

Why not write to the above address & see what the man has to offer!

> Buy a Deep Bass Nine!  They're WICKED! *:)

Blyecch ...


Geoffrey

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