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I've also owned a Korg X5DR, and Ensoniq EPS, and an Ensoniq ESQ-1. I still own the ESQ-1 and my Roland JV-1010.
@Audiojunkie - I didn't have anything but the front panel. I really didn't fool with custom sounds at that point though. I was more interested in learning midi and playing.
Yamaha B200. It was essentially the Yamaha YS200 but with 2 x 20 watts speakers with a stereo line in. Tea was made and served on it. My Fostex 4 track went into the stereo line and was my first "studio" and with a no name cheap red guitar for good measure. What fun!
Alesis Micron, I never was able to made a single custom patch.
I had sold it (and I had sold my Microkorg too) because I found superior any virtual synth on the market.
If I should buy a new hardware synth, I should go for something that looks cool, but actually I think nothing can beat a virtual instrument for price and versatility.
Actually the only problem with playing VST is that a huge part of midi\master keybards on the market are plastic rubbish.
Teisco 110F.. spent all my time in the 80's trying to make it sound like anything but a synth. Times have sure changed.. when I got my Mirage Sampler, loading a dog bark of floppy disk actually impressed your friends
@stug111 but not ferris bueller. 16 year old me was so annoyed at him for complaining that "all he got" was an Emulator 2+ for his birthday. pfft.
Cz101 followed by Kawai K1.
I still have a Kawai K1m here, bought in 1989. Works perfectly!
I had a k1m for a while was about £350 new !!! Loved the fairlight like, AHHH preset at the time.
Replaced it with a K1 I I which I still have in the attic. I'd sell it on but it's probably only worth about £20 now :-( somehow I can't see these synths coming back in vogue like the analogues did.
Just snapped a few...
Old verses the new... Arp Axxe 1976 model vs iPad air 2013 model :-)
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I too still have a Kawai k1 11 which is currently not being used by my son. :P
Casio CZ-1000, 1986
Took 8 years to finally upgrade an Ensoniq SQ-1+ in 1994
Bought a Korg X-5 in 1995 and then several more since then, but the Korg was my main gigging synth for almost a decade. Super portable and great action on the keys.
Now that I use an iPad exclusively for my synths, the only hardware synth that is still out is the Korg X-5. I use it as a MIDI controller for the iPad since it still has the best playing keys of any hardware synth I've owned.
Korg MS-10. I still have it. ;-)
I wish I still had my MS10, and OMG @enc does that still work...later I had a PolyMoog, a Polysix, an M1 although the M1 was later, now I have the VST version which is awesome, a Solina String Ensemble, all gone now, shame, oh yeah and an Octave Plateau Kitten, again wanted a Cat but couldn't wait...now I have a MiniNova, Korg Microstation, Alesis Miniak and a Roland GW8..
1978 Korg MS-20
Same as richardyot - Sunrizer on my iPad. I'm a guitarist and was never even interested in synths until iOS. Still mainly a guitarist, but I love my iOS synths and would love to get some hardware synths if I could afford it. When I go to music stores I now don't just look at the guitars; I also have a good gander at the synths.
@ thesoundtestroom? Yeah the Arp Axxe still works. A Few of the keys re trigger the previous note played as the key wires have broken. I had a couple repaired in the 90s but they are very thin and are notorious for breaking on the Arps.
It's not a daily player so can't see the point in getting it repaired at the moment.
Nave Waldorf, haha... ya, I am new to synth, same as TCM, I am guitarist and never think about adding keyboard type of instrument into music until iOS Music....
Roland XP-50 Music Workstation; still have it, but it needs servicing & it'll probably never get done! It's a new age...
iMS20 8 months ago. Big mistake for a beginner.
Roland SH-09 & Moog Taurus pedals. Yeah, guess what band I grew up listening to.
Rush was my religion.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane you guys. Great thread.
EDP Wasp. £199.99. 1979.
A Moog Mini Voyager was my first. I found it in a garage sail and got it for just 15 dollars. The guy who sold it said it just hummed lol . So I bought it hoping to get it repaired. Imagine my surprise when I figured out he simply had no clue how it worked.. It was the sweetest music deal I will probably ever come across. The dumbest thing I ever did was trade it for a couple of electric guitars a few years later.
1982 ARP AXXE (red screen print?) ohh wonderful memories can still smell it, all the patch sheets that came with it "leaky faucet" was one if I recal
Too many other fantastic synths all gone now apart from a Juno 60, JV1080 & my all time fav Ensoniq EPS16+ love that keyboard so much! written most of my music on its basic 8 track sequencer, I'd love an ipad equivalent, if Gadget gets a sampler it'll be close (and a whole lot more).
Now ipad mini with a behringer controller & just about all the top synth apps totally loving it!
Still waiting for a synth app for live which covers basic bread & butter sounds plus analog & sampling with a performance mode with fast easy patch change buttons and splits, layering etc, mmm think we need a far more powerful ipad.
ARP Odyssey. A white one not a black one!
I wanted one after watching Greenslade on the Old Grey Whistle Test!
I think only people of a certain age in the UK may remember
I saved my wages from my first proper job (no credit card for me in those days!)
Wow @AlterEgo_UK, Greenslade! haven't thought of them for years. Roger Dean covers on the LP's if memory serves me. Sold the records years ago sadly.
I saw Greenslade not so many years ago - great band!
First proper synth that I bought and still own was a Yamaha sy-85.then got a Roland d-10 then a d-20.my recent synth was a Yamaha motif xs6 which I sold as I didn't have the space to keep it due to having children.i always wanted a korg M1 and a Roland d-50 but never got to get one.maybe one day off e-bay!!
Elka ek 44.
M1 and D50 - Memories! Sold mine a few years ago just before they became "vintage". Fetched about $300 each IIRC. In those days Korg knew whereof they spake when it came to MIDI. The M1 has a perfect implementation. I guess those engineers retired or otherwise moved on
My room-mate at the time I got them was a burnt-out recording engineer, refugee from the LA studio scene, taught me all I know about audio engineering. Of those two, his comment was "not waiting for the movie, I'm waiting till the synth comes out!" (maybe you had to be there:). They amost fulfilled the dream of walking up to the keyboard, on stage, pausing dramatically, then pressing one key. The house comes down.
RIP, Jim, and thanks for the life.