How many hardware synths are in your studio?

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:01 am

Only two right now, Memorymoog and an X-Station. I'll never sell the Memorymoog.

leisuremuffin wrote:i'd also like a memory moog and that also aint gonna happen. they are super nice though.

You can find them for cheap every once in a while. get one that's got tuning issues, that's not hard really!

then send it to Lintronics, and they make it fully MIDI retrofitted! everything sends MIDI

M. Bréqs wrote:
sweetjesus wrote:
M. Bréqs wrote:Shit, the serial number was like one hundred and six or something. That was a big mistake.
yes it was.

regards,
#168
That stings man...

Yeah, I do regret selling it every now and then. That feeling comes and goes in waves. When I'm packing up to go to a show or a gig (a rare occurance admittedly) I appreciate my new minimal setup - Also, there's no latency / sync issues, so everythings' tight with VSTs / Live soft-synths.

Jesus, you DJ types are such pussies?? I work construction, and used to carry around Marshall stack! It wasn't that big of a fucking deal?

then again I'm not averse to hard work...

OK all I'm saying is TOTAL mistake on the Andromeda! I have a nice old analogue yet there was an ad on craigslist for one, $1600 OBO!

I was second in line, probably a good thing, I would be broke!

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:35 am

hum just one synth... (very awful blue CS1X... not really a synth .. a wave table synth...)
used as a master keyboard

if I could, I'd buy some nordlead, drumstation etc

henrico · Post by **henrico** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:12 am

Juno 6
Waldorf Q
Yamaha CS6x
Sid station
ASR10
EPS16+
Emu SP12

(sounds a lot when you list it!)

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:03 am

Nord Lead 2x
Moog Rogue
MPC 2000
piano

filarion · Post by **filarion** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:54 am

Nord Modular G2
Elektron Machinedrum UW
DSI Evolver (Desktop)
Kawai K5000S

phew, just barely made synth-junkie status. Used to have a lot more, but things shifted over the years and I managed to trim down to the essentials.. of course, I'm lusting after vintage gear, but I just don't have the space to start hoarding..(or the mixing desk to properly handle that much gear). well, an MS-20 at some point maybe...

I tend to sync things up with Live as MIDI clock master, but the actual midi sequencing happens on internal sequencers whenever possible. I find that mixing internal sequencers with stuff sequenced in Live adds another rhythmic quality that can be quite nice (of course, it also multiplies the fuckup potential).

smutek · Post by **smutek** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:17 pm

sqook wrote:

What is the largest factor holding you back from buying hardware?

My wife.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:18 pm

filarion wrote:(of course, it also multiplies the fuckup potential).

You say that like it's a bad thing!

filarion · Post by **filarion** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:30 pm

hehe, it's usually a good thing, but I find myself despairing because I can't recreate a certain groove that happened the last time I jammed with a collection of patches on various machines.. usually that happened because one of the synths wasn't properly locked to the midi clock in the first place

filarion · Post by **filarion** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:31 pm

w00t, we signed up here on the same date! can I have half of your post-count though?

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:57 pm

Machinesworking wrote:Jesus, you DJ types are such pussies??

DJ Type?!?! This pussy ain't no DJ goddamnit! Them's fightin words... oh, wait. Nevermind. pussies don't fight.

mag101 · Post by **mag101** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:05 pm

jomox sunsyn
jomox xbase999
dsi evolver
syntecno t303
korg er1
yamaha dx200
yamaha dx27
sequentix p3

elektrovert · Post by **elektrovert** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:37 pm

genshi wrote: • Korg Electribe EA-1
• Korg Electribe ER-1
• Korg Electribe ES-1

If you could only have one of these, which would it be?

Paul.

rsagevik · Post by **rsagevik** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:43 pm

Using mostly soft these days. All of Abletons stuff + AAS Tassman.
Reaktor is collecting dust (virtual that is)

as for hardware I really like my Synthesizers.com modular and try to use it as much I can,
and I`ve also got an Yamaha A5000, which is lovely, but also collecting dust at the moment.
damn you Sampler..

..oh, and my Casio SK-10 kicks butt

divonic · Post by **divonic** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:31 pm

Lets see

Synths:

EMU XL7 (sorta a groovebox)
Kawai K1r
Redsound EleVAta
Korg EA-1
Casio CZ-101 (not a toy but a pain to program)
Nord Lead 2X (Coming soon, hopefully tommorow)

Drum Modules/machines:

Roland R8m
Akai XE8
Roland TR-626
Roland TR-727
Korg DDD-1

Samplers:

Boss SP-202 (Does it count?)

MIDI Recorders:

Brother MDI-100 (Not peice of crap just toatlly useless for what I do)

I'm using Live as the Sequencer.

The 626, 727, DDD-1 and CZ-101 are rather permenentally sitting on a shelf not plugged in. The EA-1 is temporarly waiting on the shelf. The K1r, R8m, XE8 are currentlly under used cause I got a new patch bay and still haven't plugged them into it yet (and I'll be moving my studio soon) I use the XL7 and EleVAta alot and hope to use the nord a lot too.

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:31 pm

I still have 2xRoland JV880s, an SC880, an Emu Morpheus, and an Alesis DM5. But the only one I've used is the SC800 to rerecord an ancient MIDI track I made with an SC88 years ago. I think Edirol sells a software SC88 that probably would have done just as well. But my hardware is just gathering dust until I finally decide I can sell it.

Since I use Live for 95% of my stuff, I use a lot of loops from old Future Music/Computer Music/Music Tech coverdisks, along with samples provided by Ableton.

Soft synths I use in Live include: Reason 2.5, Operator, Crystal, Dimension Pro, and others.

How many hardware synths are in your studio?

How many hardware synths are in your studio?

Have em but don't use em