Synths

I just bought a Roland RS-5, it's pretty cool for the price. Accoustic instruments don't sound great... but you can come up with some really nice weird sounds. I've been recreating War of the Worlds in my room.

ok redbar you rock. ARP's are sweet. Nice avatar. Welcome!

my favourite synth players were chris franke and pete baumann for their ability to control a moog modular live "on the fly" before the days of midi or other means of temp sync.

this may be of interest;

http://www.arturia.com/en/moogmodular.lasso

try the demo all you moog fans.

my first virtual synth was a moog modular drawn on my bedroom wall

my first real synth was a yamaha cs5.

 

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Wizard/TRueStar wrote: favorite synthesist: Roger Powell/Todd Rundgren Listen to "A treatise in cosmic fire from todd's "Initiation" it gooooooooood stuff!

Yep, huge, huge use of the RMI Keyboard Computer II on
that recording as well as some ARP Prototypes of Roger's.

The KCII was also heavily used on Terje Rypdal's "Waves"
of 1978.

As far as my own synths go:
I've got a Korg Poly 61, a Yamaha CS1X, a Roland R5,
as well as a whole host of softsynths (Mellotron, PPG,
etc.)




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I really want a Minimoog or an Alesis Ion. My friend has a pretty classic
monophonic Korg. MS1 or something.

like james i'm the plug-in king (m-tron, b4, imposcar, fm7, pro53 etc), but the guy I work with has a Korg Poly 6 - love it to bits - knob-twiddling heave .... ooer missus

I've had a couple over the years...the favorite being my Roland Juno-106. Other cheap thrills included a Casio CZ-1000 (raspy early wavetable synth), a JV-880, a Korg ER-1 (fun little bleepy drums and sequencer), a SC DrumTrak (early lo-fi sample drum machine), and a cheap Radio Shack Moog-designed monosynth.

I've since replaced all of them with plug-ins, but I'd still love some old nasty analog modular beast to play mad scientist with.

sigod wrote: Man Erg wrote: Sweetnighter wrote: My first 'synth' was a Rolf Harris Stylophone!!! . Excellent machine

Aaaah! Thats the baby. Trouble with those was the pen-cord would either crack or the contacts would wear-out

Sweetnighter wrote: thats awesome! what was the first synth you started with? and do you know anything about the korg ms2000b? i've been looking stuff up, and i'm really pumped about getting one... its just that my budget is limited.... i can't really afford to exceed $750

My first 'synth' was a Rolf Harris Stylophone!!!
My first 'real' synths were a Wasp (touch sensitive) and an old 1970s Teisco (Stereolab used to use one) that I picked up second-hand in VG condition in loot magazine for £15.
I've heard and read some great thing about the MS 2000b.
See if you can find a review of it on Future Music's
site.They give a £ for £ ,$ for $ review.

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Hey there, new to this board and English ain't my First langage, so please be indulgent :P

My favorite Synthesist are the follow: Rick Wakeman, Keith emerson, Jordan Rudess, Chick Corea, Joe zawinul, Derek Sherinian, Martin Orford

My favorite Synth sounds: The Grand piano, Fender rhodes/Wurlitzer, Clavinet, Minimoog, Hard leads like those that Jordan and Derek use, i like the harder sounds of those leads! Noisy effect

I own a Roland RD-170 for Piano/Rhodes use (I usually use this keyboard on big prog shows or Jazz gig), I have a Roland Phamtom that i use usally as a complete keyboard or if i have my RD-170 as a Pads, Effects, Clavinet, Organ, Mellotron/string patches, and I also have a An1X for Moogs, Hard leads, effects and a little bit of pading, I usally use this keyboard on Rock/PRog gigs or if i Play with a Jazz fusion band!

I Am working to have the Roland VX8m (don't remember if it's the correct name of the thing) witch is a Organ Modulator with all nine tone bar, Distortion, Chorus, Depths, Tremelo, If someone have 1200$ to give it to me... I'm opened mind to those suggestion :P