If you make electronic music....

[Blackmail]

what's your all-time favorite synth?

well I've not used alot of the classics, I've never used a midi moog or anything. In fact I've only used a roland xp-50, roland xp-10, novation bass station, ensoniq eps, ensoniq asr, korg d500? analog, korg 01, korg m1, fatman, oberheim ob-8 and a few others analog and virtual analog synths.

My favorite out of those is the Ensoniq ASR (was it called the asr 88?) keyboard version. It was just a sampler but you could buy awesome soundbanks for it and it had a 16 track sequencer and if you had enough memory you could compose a song using nothing but that synth, even add vocals via the sampler.

The oberheim ob-8 is a sweet analong synth with tons of knobs and all that, I just liked workstations back in the 90's. Now, use software synths, mostly because it's cheaper and you can do alot more, but sometimes I miss the hardware days.

What was your favorite?

[Fierce Critter]

I never had anything except a Korg Poly61, which I picked up a couple years ago in NC at a yard sale for $10.

It was fun noodling around on it, but I ended up selling it on eBay. It got too frustrating to want to be able to make music, but not know how to actually play keyboards.

I have a high-end Casio I'm keeping around in case I find time to actually learn to play. It'll have to substitute for a piano in that case. It's got some built-in tutorials that tell you where to put your fingers, and keys that light up to assist. But it only teaches you about a dozen set songs, not actually how to form chords, etc.

I've been on guitars for the most part. Too bad, as I think my time would have been better spent learning how to play piano. I'm a very mediocre guitarist, and might have been pretty decent on keys.

Now that I'm working via computer, I find I prefer VSTI synths with lots of presets, as I don't enjoy the more technical aspect of making electronic music. I just want to key in my notes and build a song. Thusfar, Z3TX has impressed me the most as far as that.

I have a Moog simulator that's cool as hell. Don't know a damned thing about manipulating it, but the interface is sweet - cords that actually react to movement as if the real thing is right in front of you. The sound of a Moog is something I've always fondly enjoyed, but I'll leave the programming & playing to people who know what they're doing.

[phee]

Wow... great question...

I love the haunting sound of Mellotrons... And VCF Synth... but in a nystalgic way (sp?)

I appreciate the wonders of the synclavier (Mark Snow)

And Rush and Steve Roach are Gods on the Oberhiem...

I liked My ASR for a while...

But now... I loves my Nords and K2000

[odims_sphere]

Vintage analog = Sequential Circuits Pro-One. Best bass sounds ever.

Sampling = Kurzweil K2 series workstations. Functionality and versitility.

Analog modeling = Clavia Nord lead, Access virus a very close second.

Midi control = Roland D50. Smoothest keys around.

[odims_sphere]

My favorite out of those is the Ensoniq ASR (was it called the asr 88?) keyboard version. 

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In the ASR series Ensoniq made the ASR 10, ASR 88, ASR-x, and the ASR-x pro. All basically the same engine with different amounts of keys, the flagship being the ASR 88 which had 88 full weighted keys. It was considered by many the best sampler of its time, but the sequencer left many running in terror.

[Fierce Critter]

ALL of this has me running in terror.

<-- Runs back to the comforting arms of her presets...

[odims_sphere]

ALL of this has me running in terror.

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No need to run, once you physically do your first filter sweep you'll be hooked on hardware

[Homicidalheathen]

I don't have enough experience to answer this, I only play a tiny bit and only used a Rowland D-10 and D-20

But I liked them both.

[Blackmail]

No need to run, once you physically do your first filter sweep you'll be hooked on hardware

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not necassarilly, I've used plenty of analog synths and the software ones do a pretty good job of replicating the sound. Lots of bands that used to use hardware have switched over to softsynths. I like both.

[odims_sphere]

not necassarilly, I've used plenty of analog synths and the software ones do a pretty good job of replicating the sound.    Lots of bands that used to use hardware have switched over to softsynths.  I like both.

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But there is nothing like actually turning a knob with your fingers.

[Blackmail]

But there is nothing like actually turning a knob with your fingers.

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I agree, for the most part I like hardware synths better

but did you know that they have new USB keyboard midi controllers with knobs that correspond with the softsynths filters, oscilators, etc

[odims_sphere]

I agree, for the most part I like hardware synths better

but did you know that they have new USB keyboard midi controllers with knobs that correspond with the softsynths filters, oscilators, etc

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Yea I have that one and played with it on Cakewalk's Project 5. It's neat to play with, but... I'm still stick on my gear.

No disrespect intended, it's just my prefrence.

[Blackmail]

Yea I have that one and played with it on Cakewalk's Project 5. It's neat to play with, but... I'm still stick on my gear.

No disrespect intended, it's just my prefrence.

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it's my preference too.

Trust me, I wish I had a midi moog, a ob-8, a jupiter6, a tr909 and 606.....but I don't and I've got other bills to pay (like my comic book addiction) so I think softsynths are nice for some people.

Like I said, I used to have a roland xp50, a novation bass station and some analog korg synth.

I do like sampling better on a computer though, much better.

[phee]

Have to agree with Ted on the sampling front.... way easier on the computer!

[CatsEyeOfTheWiccan]

Here is my all time favriots:

Those are some to name a few but I love Analog and very rarely fall in love with a digital synthizer.

I curently own an ARP 2600, Korg Poly 800, Roland JX8P with PG-800. I would love get more analog ones and the Yamaha Anx1.

-CatsEye

[Blackmail]

NICE!

I used to have the Yamaha An1x too the blue one you posted above.

I sold it a week after I bought it because as far as I could figure out, it was not multi-timbral. I also had lots of midi problems, I hooked it up to a Alesis sequencer and couldn't get it to do what I want, I would sequence it using a cool analog sound but then when I played it back it would switch to a General Midi sound.

Probably something I did wrong but I didn't want to mess around with it forever.

Cool pics by the way.

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nice