Hardware Synths - anyone using the Korg R3 or other older synths?

[miyaru]

After using softsynths for a while now, I rediscovered the fun of programming my aging Korg R3. This morning I made a Moog like patch, and it was a breeze to do thanks to the software editor it has supplied with it.

I have some old stuff left in my studio, and sometimes it's fun to use it. I also have this old Korg N1 synth and a Yamaha groovebox - the famous RM1x. The latter is on the attic now due to space issues on my desk, but it surely is a fun machine.

The R3 from Korg can produce nice sounds, and it's vocoder is really fun to use.

Is any of yoy guys/girls out there using this old stuff to, and yes what kind of synths, drummachines or grooveboxes?

[Tarekith]

I recently bought a Roland Mc505 again, which was one of my very first bits of musical gear and shaped the way I think about music creation. Fun to revisit something that was so integral to my music making process early on, though I do find it pretty tedious to use compared to today's gear. The GUI is so slow to update when you do things compared to say the TR-8S

The R3 is a sweet synth though, a few friends of mine owned those and I was always so jealous.

[miyaru]

MC-505 where to expensive for me when they where released, and always found them so fat sounding compared to a RM1x. The RM1x have I bought secondhand in 2001.

The N1 was much needed for my productions round 1999 when I bought it, but it was also very expensive.........

Indeed the R3 is fun!!!!!

[Richie Witch]

LOL, old stuff is pretty much all I own!

Korg MS2000R
Korg Electribe ER-1
Novation Bass Station Rack
Yamaha DX7s

I picked up some newer stuff last year, but the bulk of my studio continues to be old stuff, and they continue to get a lot of use.

[Tarekith]

I owned an RMX1 briefly back in the day too, but I always found it rather confusing to use. Yamaha had a very unique way of organizing their synths and patches back then, my CS2x was the same way. Was it called XM or something?

[miyaru]

Yeah, stood for Extended MIDI or so, very strange started also with PC 00 instead of PC 01 and so........

[downfader]

hardware synths have been an addiction for me since the days of.. well.. hardware. I've always liked them due to licences not running out when buying a new computer etc. They don't take up the DAW cpu processes as much. They often have their own character that softsynths struggle to copy (eg Atmegatron, Meeblip, Microbrute etc). I finally bought an MS2000r (blue, so a later model, but not the last) a couple of years back. I;d lusted over these since they came out.... I'd finally got a decent job and spent some money on this and loved it.