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Univox Mini-Korg
PAIA 2720
PAIA Gnome
Korg Poly 800
Nord Micro Modular
Roland MC307
ok, amongns those three (all of them got after my 20yo), this one was actually first one, i was probably 6 years old and i STILL HAVE IT !
Honorable mention about the first keyboard I ever played home is the Yamaha PS-3 (need to repair it like NOW).
(I learned quickly.)
The Yamaha is way more fun than should be expected, I doubt the SK5 counts I guess, and Boogie time
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I’m probably too new school for this post:
My first proper MIDI controller:
First hardware synth:
Second hardware synth:
Keyboard synths only? I bought mostly rackmount synths but did have a few keyboards.
First was the Korg Wavestation EX. Got a used one in the late 1990s from Guitar Center for $300. Still one of the most powerful synths ever made.
Second was the Waldorf Microwave XTk. Bought it for $1100 from a store in Maryland. I was making ambient at the time so lots of movements and modulation options were important to me.
Third was the Alesis Ion. One of the deepest VAs, dual filters with lots of routing and FM options. Build quality was poor.
As a kid I had a Casio keyboard and Yamaha portasound. Then I got a cheap Yamaha electric piano made of wood that like 10 presets, including a couple of synth ones. But mostly organs and pianos. Then it was whichever Juno workstation was out in 08. After that I went all in with an Alesis Micron and a MicroBrute.
From there I owned probably 100+ different synths over the years.
Got the Yamaha CS15 in 1982
Then this came along in 1983
Bought the Casio CZ5000 together with a friend in 1986
the Digisound 80 based synth (which eventually caught fire years later)
Korg Poly 800.
Korg DW6000.
Korg Mini 700.
spinet piano, then much later, not in order, the micro Nord was first, still in use but tricky, runs on 32gig, which is ok, i have a stack for my old Scope system
Korg Mono/Poly
Roland JX-3P with programmer
A red Roland SH-101 with leather strap from Roland
I don't own any of them anymore.
It's quite funny to see all three available as digital re-creations today
All three were great for learning about analog sound synthesis.
My 4th one was a Roland S-50 sampling keyboard + SYS503 sequencer btw, and I have to say that I had more fun with it than with any of the above.
Korg MS10: I wanted an MS20 but couldn’t afford it. Still, it had the external in, and you could make it scream in ways I still haven’t heard from anything else. And I do mean scream, not play. I couldn’t play it, then, and I can’t play anything now, but I did enjoy making horrible bloody noises with it. Plus ca change, eh? From a junk shop in Brighton around 1984, I think. Part ex’ed a hifi for it, cost about £100.
Had it until last year. It needed fixing, blown capacitors, I think, the repair cost wasn’t worth it to me, so I sold it to a guy with the skills to fix it, for £400. Got an email from him, saying he had it up and running again.
Roland MC202 microcomposer: From that same junk shop the following year, 1985, part ex’ed a 48k Spectrum for it, paid about £60 cash, I think. Had it until last year. Got it modded to bypass the cv problem (without the mod, triggering and syncing it via cv from external gear eventually overloads its internal sequencer, and you start getting distressed little electronic chirps from it.) Sold it last year for a grand (!) and I see now they’re going for almost 2 grand (!!) It’s a great little synth/sequencer and all, but it really isn’t worth that as a working instrument, only as a collectible artefact.
Sequential Six Trak multi timbral synth (the one I wished I kept!) Swapped for a drum kit @ 1986? Beautiful synth, one of the first multi timbral ones, but oh, when you stacked the sounds…!
It had a sequencer onboard but I used this:
I’d still give houseroom to both…
@andowrites : Wow! That’s not bad for a first synth!
At my first art school! I was 16, and my first taste of synthesis. Back when our video recorders were black and white reel to reel, it seemed pretty amazing. It still does.
Farfisa Pro Piano. Bought it off a friend of a friend. Sounded terrible but I got a lot of use out of it.
The Ion was the only hardware synth I ever owned. Wish I hadn't got rid of it. Still one of my favourite looking synths
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Great seeing all these things, mine are a right mixed bunch:
A lucky find on St Michael’s car boot sale in 1988 I guess (£30 I remember it being), my dad wouldn’t let me but it right away so I had to take the young lads number and then bus it to Blackpool the following week and bring it home that way… was a right nightmare for a wannabe 13 year old pop star as I had no amp and no idea what to do with it, I kept it until I was 17 and needed to pay a terrible friend that I owed money to for acid and whiz 😅
My next attempt was this, at 15 I think, not much more fun tbh as I didn’t have the imagination at the time to appreciate the Lo-Fi sampler, can’t even recall what happened to it… new from Argos or some other cut price place I think…
Bit off piste but got one of these when I was 17 and post band, many years of tracking all sorts from crappy techno to interesting ambient and yello stylings. This photo isn’t mine, I wish I could find one as I eventually stuffed so much expansion into it that me and a friend ended up building an oversized PC style case out of wood for it, stained it in what would now be considered some sort of steampunk psychedelia and it was actually still pulling sound and pixel graphic duties in my studio until the early noughties! I think I abandoned it when I left there, to my recent chagrin, alongside a spare 1200 and 600 I’d picked up at charity shops in the meantime. If I’d always had a storage unit, I’d be one cluttered up nutter 😂
Thanks Krupa for showin me your Yamaha
Mine was indeed also a Yamaha VSS200 !
Oh, the countless hours of burp and fart sampling I had on it !!!! Sampling people´s voices on the phone and then tweaking, mangling the recording with the keyboard till they go mad at me! And re-record them again in a mad sonic cycle they seemed trapped into ! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm with the Yamaha gang here.
This one had nice (LoFi) strings if I remember correctly.
Roland D110
Crumar Bit One
Korg MS2000
And looks sooo pretty.