Members Superace25 Posted April 23, 2007 Members Share Posted April 23, 2007 Started a lot later than a few of you. My first real synth was a Yamaha CS6X... I see your Yamaha CS6X and raise 1 E-mu PK-6. My dad bought one for me my sophomore year of highschool because I was playing a lot of music, but always borrowing other people's gear. It was (and is... I still use it) a great starter keyboard, with plenty of bread and butter. Well, until you actually want anything piano or orchestral... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zoink Posted April 23, 2007 Members Share Posted April 23, 2007 I guess I knew that would happen eventually, but it's a shame, anyway. It was a cool store, and one of the only things I liked about my short time with the Shenendehowans in the early nineties. I was a little surprised that they were gone. I'd moved away from the Northeast in 86, but still go back to visit family and would drop in from time to time. I also remember when Drome Sound used to have a big store in Albany and another in Schenectady. Now the Albany store is gone and they've moved the Schenectady store to a really small place on Central Ave. Times have definitely changed. It seems the music scene in the Albany area has sort of died out. Just an impression I get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillyWa Posted April 23, 2007 Members Share Posted April 23, 2007 Mook makes a guest appearance! What is that thing, anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJP Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 My first synth was a Minimoog which the original owner dropped down a flight of step. I paid $600 for it in the autumn of '73. The only real casulty of the fall was a broked D key. It, unbeknownst to me, was also owned by AJP ( my co-duoist) at one point, after I sold it in 1985 for $300.Wes TaggartAnalogicshttp://www.analogics.org/ Sad story of a real dumbass move on my part. Bought it for $150 from the back corner of the local mom & pop store. I was in a big-hair 80s band at the time - my rig was a D-50, an Emax and a Juno-106 - and did not understand vintage analog (mostly the pitch stability issues and how it would need regular TLC). Sold it in frustration for.... $150. Oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 303face Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Casio SK-1 , in 5th grade my friend brought his to school. He burped into it and played the burps back with different notes. I was amazed. I went home to tell my parents what I just seen and told them I wanted one right now. They thought I was an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted April 24, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 ^ yesssssss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 303face Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 20 years later while listening to by favorite music I was wondering what the hell is making THAT sound, "its in like every song". "Its a 303" they said. " But I have a 303 (MC-303 he he). When I finally got my hands on the real thing and was in control of it (sometimes it was more like it controlled me !) I was really happy. Especially playing live with one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orangefunk Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Was the things dreams were made of in 1985... I was a bit pissed off actually at the time; I knew nothing about MIDI and therefore didn't realise the 106 could be had for the same price... I tried to sync a Boss drum machine to the arpeg and had no luck, so settled on a Korg DDM 110, god the music I did back then was so bad... just me farting around not knowing anything... tape bouncing on a Sony Walkman... man.. how times have changed... I managed to exchange the DDM and Juno 60 for a Casio CZ5000 which was just pure class back then... then it was JX8P, Roland S330, W30, Proteus, RD300s, Rhodes and then I was into the 1990s ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CO622 Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 >For this Pig, it was a dark and stormy night in 1982 and a chance encounter with the Realistic MG-1 set up on display just inside the door of the Radio Shack in Laurel Mall, Maryland. I was sideways impressed it could make these choo-choo noises, unlike the Casiotones I'd owned (never more than one at a time). Same here Pig... In Nashville thoough. Harding Mall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted April 24, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Bubbeleh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mytee2.0 Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Kirus novation nova. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Severalist Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Ensoniq ESQ-1. Picked it up at a pawn shop for $200 and still have it to this day. I made some of the most interesting patches on that thing, just programming by sound alone, before I knew what was what (the "proper" way to make a pad, bass, etc.) and my programming became more formulamatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RichardHK Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 My old Jupiter-8 circa 1981. Had bought the JP-4 before that but it looked rather too drab, and its keyboard range was not wide enough. But the JP-8 was fabulous at that time, and looked/sounded really really good on stage!! Sold it cheap years ago, but fond memories remain. Yes, times have really, really changed! Now starting over once more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -groovatious- Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 Mook makes a guest appearance! What is that thing, anyway? Korg MicroPreset. I still own one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Birdienumnum Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 We called it "The Putney". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Unfed Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 didn't know a thing about it. had to have it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted April 24, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 We called it "The Putney". Silly Putney, trapezoids are for fascists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pighood Posted April 24, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 I'm having my sinus cavities upgraded to business class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 For me, I would be the Wavestation EX. It wasn't my first synth, but it was my first "good" synth, bought it used in '94. What's really funny is that I almost missed out on getting it. At that time, I had just received a $900 profit sharing check from my job and was really dead set on finding a used Wavestation. Couldn't find one anywhere in the local Swap Sheet, but I did find someone who was selling his Roland JV-80. So, I went over to the guy's house to check it out. Thought it sounded OK, but I really wanted a Wavestation. Well, it must've been pretty clear to the guy, since he actually informed me of a fellow musician around town who was selling his Wavestation EX for $800 new, still in box. Couldn't believe that this guy would miss out on a sale by giving me the info. Of course, I turned him down on the JV-80 to buy the Wavestation. On a side note, the Wavestation was my first ever "clonewheel". It was part of my gigging setup(connected to the Leslie 25) for several years before I replaced it with the Hammond XB2. The B3 patch, "Vektor Organ" sounded really good. Great Leslie sim, several notches better than the XB2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RichardHK Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 We called it "The Putney". You can also use this thing for playing Battleships when it breaks down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members triton76 Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 I remember Rush's Tom Sawyer was the song that made me interested in synths. I remember a seeing so many synths in stores in L.A. but I couldn't afford my own until I graduated from college about 10yrs later. Yamaha SY-35 Vector Synth was my first of many. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 I remember Rush's Tom Sawyer was the song that made me interested in synths. The sound of resonant low pass filter was what made me interested in synthesizers ... some 17 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tony Scharf Posted April 24, 2007 Members Share Posted April 24, 2007 My first love...thats a hard one to answer. I had a pair of cheap casios when i was in highschool (late 89~92). When I graduated, I lusted after a Yamaha TG33 (the casios had MIDI out..so I figured I was set...). I sequenced it with an Amiga 500 computer running Bars & Pipes Pro (I still think it was the best sequencer EVER). now *that* was love.. but young love is fickle. About a year later, I used money the government gave me as part of a pell grant to buy a Yamaha Sy85...and that was pure hot sex. I still miss it. I bought a second hand TG33 recently, and now that I actually *know* how to program and what vector synthesis is, Im getting more mileage out of it then I did 15 years ago. maybe its time to pick up a used SY as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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