Your all time fave synth?

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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4896
    The best synth ever is the Minimoog - it's the one which put the keyboard player up there with lead guitarists.

    For the bass player, it's the Moog Taurus, or the Minitaur is close (and cheaper!).

    I nearly bought a DX-7 this year, but the seller messed me about, so I had to get my money back.

    I've got a Roland SH-32 thing which does a darned good Tom Sawyer growl.

    I've got a Yamaha JV-1010, which has a lot of handy sounds; its big brothers (JV-880, JV-1080) can run a whole multi-part composition and are used in movie soundtracks and suchlike.

    If I had a sound room and a spare £10k, I'd have all of them and an Oberheim.

    if I had a bit more talent, I'd be able to play them too!

    I think it's Behringer who have just released a Minimoog clone - I'll probably pick one of those up at some point.
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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4159
    Sequential Circuits Prophet V, so many classic warm tones and on everything in the late 70’s and 80’s
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited October 2017
    prowla said:
    If I had a sound room and a spare £10k, I'd have all of them and an Oberheim.

    if I had a bit more talent, I'd be able to play them too!
    The OP-X Pro-II is a decent Oberheim emulation

    http://www.sonicprojects.ch/opxpro2/description.html
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7329
    edited October 2017
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  • bbill335bbill335 Frets: 1368
    Freebird said:
    bbill335 said:
    Juno 106 is all over some of my favourite records, so is the MS20 and 303.
    I've got an original MS-20. What songs did you like?
    It's all over Daft Punk's Homework, I know Modeselektor and Boys Noize have used the MS20. Apparently, Oizo used on on Flat Beat and that's a killer track.


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  • You may laugh, but I seriously consider the humble Roland SH-101 to be one of the best synths ever made, and possibly my favourite. I love its tonality, balance of features vs ease of use and it's impossible to make it sound bad. 
     Of the other synths I've spent time with, the SH-5, CS60 and Jupiter 6 are right up there.
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2393
    I had a Jupiter 8 once. *sobs* Still miss it, that was a great synth.

    Of the ones I still have, I think my favourite might be the Polivoks aka the "Russian Minimoog". It's cranky and unreliable and dirty and has the worst keyboard of all time, but nothing else sounds like it.

    I never much liked the SH-101 though.
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 24209
    My only real synth was a Korg DW8000.  I should never have sold it. :-(
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14323
    My brother has an aged DW-8000. IMHO, he should never have bought it. The key bed needed attention thirty years ago.

    I had an EX-8000 for a while. I kept using the same handful of favourite sounds. The only way to stop this was to trade the module in.
    Be seeing you.
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  • AliGorieAliGorie Frets: 308
    until last year I'd a Waldorf XT which I'd had since they came out now passed on to a young relative.





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  • Fr3tFr3t Frets: 2
    Roland SH-101  may not be the best for other people but it's a great one
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  • ADPADP Frets: 184
    The Roland GR-300.
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