Members elmokeys Posted July 1, 2004 Members Share Posted July 1, 2004 I nominate my beloved Korg Karma. It broke down twice in the first 18 months. Once, it had a bizarre problem one of the middle octaves was transposed an octave higher. The second time all C#'s stopped working. I also had a set of problems on one of the first Wavestations. It kept glitching and glitching. Had to bring it in three times in three months, as I recall. Most reliable for me has been Roland, though I don't love the Roland sound (and God knows, I have tried!). Yamaha has been quite reliable too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted July 1, 2004 Members Share Posted July 1, 2004 I've had my Wavestation for 10 years now, gigged with it for 7 1/2 of those years. Aside from a low lithium battery and a few unplayable keys, it's still in tip-top shape. I would have to nominate my old Alesis QS8.1. Whenever I would hit the first 20 keys, I would get this awful, metallic sounding noise. Took it to a local repair shop and they couldn't figure it out. Ended up selling it as-is before I got the S80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members clusterchord Posted July 1, 2004 Members Share Posted July 1, 2004 it has to be Memorymoog in its original version. without LAMM upgrade. You had to have it recaibrated and tuned by a tehnician every 2-3 weeks.. and also you had to press the autotune button more than the keyboard itself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Trillian Posted July 1, 2004 Members Share Posted July 1, 2004 The Memorymoog is notoriously bad about tuning up properly but otherwise they seem to be basically solid. In other words they don't completely die. I have had 4 Memorymoog plus's and a couple of them would tune up all 6 voices pretty regularly. Unfortunately my current one only seems to tune up 5 at the moment. The most unreliable synths have to be almost all the Ensoniqs except the ESQ. They have really poor build quality. I had a VFX and it would freak out if you put pressure on a spot on the underside, unfortunately setting on a typical stand would cause this The ESQ however, seemed to have been built more sturdy than everything after it. -Sheryl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Analog Kid Posted July 1, 2004 Members Share Posted July 1, 2004 the keys on a Pro1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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