Screw guitars, I want an old skool synth

mellowsun

Haven’t played my guitars for months. After watching Synth Britannia I’ve realised what I am missing!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n93c4

Funkfingers

In that case, you might be amused by the music documentary transmitted immediately before yesterday's repeat of SB - especially the bit where one contributor has to keep hitting his original Bulcha to make it emit any signal.

Deadman

Get thee an app to try out:

AlexC

Gary Numan started as a guitarist. Found a synth still set up in a studio and - presto! However many pedals a person has a synth is THE sonic palette. 

mellowsun

Funkfingers said:

In that case, you might be amused by the music documentary transmitted immediately before yesterday's repeat of SB - especially the bit where one contributor has to keep hitting his original Bulcha to make it emit any signal.

Watched that too - great wasn’t it! Love minimalism. I’ve got a few early scores signed by Steve Reich.

mbe

The various Korg Volcas are a lot of bang for the buck. Cheap as chips. I bought a Volca Bass I now also have the Keys. They look like toys but are full blown synthesisers. 

I remember buying the cheapest Korg synth, the Micro Preset, in 1980 cost me a month's wages.

goldtop

Warning: I had a few synths years ago and sold them. Now I know a bit more about music I bought a Roland Gaia a couple of years ago (from a forumite). It turned out to be a gateway synth, and now I have a serious addiction. :-/

mellowsun

I’m hankering after a Prophet 6 or 12 - good choice?

octatonic

Here is my Moog.

GavRichList

mellowsun said:

I’m hankering after a Prophet 6 or 12 - good choice?

I have the Prophet 6. It’s a stunning thing. And I can sympathise with the addiction... also have a Moog Sub 37 and an Oberheim Matrix 1000, and very much the desire to add several more. 

mixolyd

Also Behringer’s copy of the Moog Model D is on the go, supply is scarce but 300 quid or so for a clone of the D is absurdly cheap.  Reviews are good too.

Moss

mellowsun said:

Funkfingers said:

In that case, you might be amused by the music documentary transmitted immediately before yesterday's repeat of SB - especially the bit where one contributor has to keep hitting his original Bulcha to make it emit any signal.

Watched that too - great wasn’t it! Love minimalism. I’ve got a few early scores signed by Steve Reich.

Ok we have to see some pictures here - I'm a Reich obsessive (nobody take that out of context)

Wazmeister

GavRichList said:

mellowsun said:

I’m hankering after a Prophet 6 or 12 - good choice?

I have the Prophet 6. It’s a stunning thing. And I can sympathise with the addiction... also have a Moog Sub 37 and an Oberheim Matrix 1000, and very much the desire to add several more. 

Gav, lets see some photos...

And to all in the thread - a basic explanation of the differences or what your synth does (for us newbies !)

Funkfingers

Differences schmifferences.

My analogue synthesizer programming technique could be neatly summarised by two lines from The Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy radio series.

ARTHUR DENT: Have you managed to make sense of the controls?
FORD PREFECT: No. I just stopped fiddling with them.

Emp_Fab

I've been into synths since I was a teenager (yes, they did have them back then, you cheeky gits).  I used to annoy the hell out of the local music shops by going in every Saturday morning and playing (badly) every preset on whatever they had on display.  I've tortured ears with the original Junos, Korg PolySix, Six-One and Poly-800, DX7 & 21, SH101.  I owned a DW-8000 for a few years and stupidly sold it on.  I currently have a little Korg 707 I use as a Midi controller (the internal patches are pretty crap for any modern usage).

Once I discovered VSTIs - the world really opened up.  Right now, I'm about to buy the Korg iM1 to run on my iPad.  What a synth...  I thought the DX7 was king until I discovered the M1.

Freebird

I'll swap you my original vintage Korg MS-20 for your original vintage guitar?

 

Freebird

A quick look at a couple of synths and a live version of Blue Monday ...

Wazmeister

You see like the OP, I understand the ‘advancement’ to synths...

Im now at the stage where I want to add some weird sounds to my creatvie writing. And, importantly, I seem too work better with physical knobs rather than menus.

I waver between something like a Elektron Octatrack (tried it, just returning it, way too complex and unituitive for me), the MPC Live (really like this) to a Prophet 6 - which sounds amazing.

Daft question - can the Prophets record and loop ?

Any thoughts and recommendations for the OP and I ?

GavRichList

Prophet has a 64 step sequencer, but no, can’t record a loop per se. 

Wazmeister

Man, this is a LOT of Moog for £28.99 !

https://youtu.be/v6Z8hsxkaDw

Freebird

Wazmeister said:

Man, this is a LOT of Moog for £28.99 !

https://youtu.be/v6Z8hsxkaDw

The Legend is the best Moog emulation I have come across.