Cymbaline Delay Rack

Circuitbenders · August 24, 2006, 04:46:16 PM

Anyone ever heard of a company called Cymbaline? I have a very strange sampling delay rack made by them and i'm not sure if its some kind of prototype or someones built it in their bedroom. Its a digital delay but it has several CV and GATE inputs and outputs plus if you open up the case it looks suspiciously like a couple of modules from a modular synth mounted in a rack case with a load of other circuitry piggy backed onto it.

It has all kinds of wierd features like the ability to set up a delay, sample the delay internally then trigger the sample playback with the peaks of a audio input. You can use the Length, Start point and Decay knobs to loop and mangle the triggered sample in all kinds of wierd ways. Its like getting Alec Empire round to mangle an Amen break for you. You even have a knob to set the sample rate of the delays.

Anyway, if anyone has ever heard of these people or knows anything about them then please let me know. Whoever made this thing was obviously either barking mad or a genius or both.

voodoolikeudoo · August 27, 2006, 08:38:17 PM

sounds cool, where did you get it?

Circuitbenders · August 27, 2006, 08:57:36 PM

Got it from some guy on ebay. He said his brother used to work for a big studio in london and he found it in the shed when his brother emmigrated, or something like that

Signal:Noise · August 28, 2006, 11:10:17 AM

Tried sound on sound's website? They're usually pretty good. And it does indeed sound very cool.

Circuitbenders · August 28, 2006, 04:40:19 PM

Nothing on SOS, nothing on Google unkless i want to know about the Pink Floyd song called cymbaline. Maybe i'm the only person in the world who has one of these.

gmeredith · August 30, 2006, 07:49:10 AM

It "looks' like a Korg sdd3000 rackmount sampler delay, stuck in another rackmount box with the knobs rearranged...

Graham

voodoolikeudoo · October 17, 2006, 04:32:07 PM

I'd say that might be some cards from one of those modular effects systems you used to be able to get in the 80's Can't remember any brand names.

Do the knobs really turn from 0 at about 4 o clock and 10 at 2 o clock? That would suggest that they are supposed to be mounted vertically wouldn't it?

Circuitbenders · October 17, 2006, 04:51:34 PM

You might well be onto something there. Check out this modular FX system made in the 80's by studiomaster:

The layout of some of those units looks strangely familiar.

Turn two of them on their sides and you might have something like my cymbaline rack.......hmmmmm.