what was your first synth?

enc

@ alter ego.... those early recordings are very similar to what Soft Cell were doing on their "bed sit tapes"

your singer sound a little like Pete Shelly !

Wonko_The_Sane

N Log Pro for me.

AlterEgo_UK

@enc said:

@ alter ego.... those early recordings are very similar to what Soft Cell were doing on their "bed sit tapes"

your singer sound a little like Pete Shelly !

You know, I have never heard those bed sit tapes before! They do sound similar in style though. Ours were "front room" tapes though - the front room of my house!

Our singer was actually a huge Gary Numan fan but since we come from Manchester, I guess there will be a Pete Shelley vibe in there as well

Will

Ah, Manchester. So much to answer for. No wonder I liked it(*). New York and London may have been home to more great bands but they're cheating - people moved there to start bands. Memphis, Tennessee and Manchester are the two cities that win "most musical city" in my book.

(*) When I visited England in the early 90s the only place on my must go list was the Hacienda.

Will

I've never seen a Tiesco synth before. Very cool sounding. I thought they just made knock off guitars.

AlterEgo_UK

@syrupcore said:

Ah, Manchester. So much to answer for. No wonder I liked it(*). New York and London may have been home to more great bands but they're cheating - people moved there to start bands. Memphis, Tennessee and Manchester are the two cities that win "most musical city" in my book.

(*) When I visited England in the early 90s the only place on my must go list was the Hacienda.

My "claim to fame" is that I was in some of the same classes as Peter Hook And Bernard Sumner at Salford Grammar School! I saw Peter a couple of years ago doing a charity DJ slot in a Salford pub and he remembered me.

But just to bring this post back on topic, my first contact with a synth was in an earlier band with another Salford Grammar School guy who built his own kit synth. We used to do some Uriah Heep covers!

Greg

My first synth: Korg Poly-800

My latest synth: Korg Gadget

WMWM

Speak and Spell!, 1980somthing.

Brain

@Audiojunkie said:

My first synth, by the way, was a Roland JV-1010. Although it had the ability when used with software to actually create and save patches, I thought of it and treated it basically as a 640 preset sound module. :-) It was such a pain to program it, and I'll never again buy a synth that requires all programming to be done through software and not on the device itself! I like the sounds of it though! :-)

The XP-50 is like the JV-1010: a pain in the arse to tweak sounds... the pages & pages of parameters to go through... but it does sound great. I never used the software - hardcore. That was my MIDI-making machine...