Oscar (nickname: sound on electro-music.com) is from Spain but lives in Greece. We had the pleasure to meet him in person and take a peek at his lab.
Some people may know him in electro-music forum as “the guy with the custom table” which is apparent in the following pictures.
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He has a very organized electronics lab and there is a whole room devoted to music and sound with the “table” as its center!
On the far left side there are two wonderful semi-modular synths. Both cwejman sound.
There is a S1 MK2 and an S2.
The S2 has serial number 11!! (Oscar tells me that there were only thirteen S2 produced EVER!)
Oscar builds his own module: the Τεσσερα (Tessera).
In his own words:
“The Tessera is a 4 SSM2164 VCAs, with linear response like Mike Irwin, with control over their offset or initial level. One signal IN, one CV IN, one switch per channel that allow to invert the signal before that it enter in the mixer, and the mixer give us, the direct outs of all the channels, 1,2,3 and 4, the sums of 1+2, ALL, 3+4 and 3+4’.
It is a very useful module that it is able to process AC signals and DC signals. It is very clean, start to distort the signals over 20V peak to peak. You can control, manual and with voltage, the amplitude of the signal, sum, split and invert, so also subtract signals. “
You can get more info about the Τεσσερα (Tessera) here
And you can see more pictures of it right below!
Mr. Braska happily sits among four Serge VCS modules. Sadly, this module has been discontinued.
As a electro-music dweller, sound could only have such modules:
Dual Sheboygans and dual Mankatos! He is the reason I got a couple of PCBs of both!! 
(Hear hear!)
(and an mfos noise module on the right!
Exactly underneath, a klee sequencer
Playful little frog!
And to close the day, here is Mr. Braska that tests the Τεσσερα in his breadboard form!
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