fav. synths

[decadnids]

I know people will say this should go in the techie section, but not as many people seem to read that section.

Could people post a list of their top 5 synths.

its for a project I am working on.

cheers

[Ubik]

Nord lead & nord modular
Waldorf microwave
korg ms 10/20
Roland Jupiter 8
Oscar

[goinz]

Nord Modular
Roland HS-60
Roland SH-101

[Ruben A]

Nord modular
Sequential Circuits Pro One !!!!
Korg Ms-20
Gothar III (3 osc fuckedup synth made by a friend - awesome)
Roland JD800 (jup, I really think it was cool!)

;)

[Andreas]

the ones we have in our studio:
wavestation ex
korg poly 800
casio cz1
roland jupiter4
tb303 (if you consider that a synth?).

dont know if they are the best, i am not so tech guy, but they kick ass for shure!

[tjackalko]

Nordrack 2
Super jd990
Bit 01
Korg poly 800 (my first ever):D

[mattp]

Nord Modular
Roland Juno 106
Quasimidi Polymorph
Roland SH101
oh and a Roland D5 (well I liked it anyway... and it was my first)

[debord]

Thought I would do a mix of analogue and digital from my own experience:

TB 303 (of course!)
Juno 106
Novation Supernova
Yamaha An1x
SH 101

[piscaries]

roland jupiter 6
octave cat srm II
sequential circuits pro one
arp axxe
elektron machinedrum

mostly analog kit but i don't prefer one to the other

[pille'ocheoni]

well i havent had that many, but the ones i like are:

waldorf xtk
waldorf q
moog mini moog
fender rhodes - but thats not a technical synth
korg poly 61

[4md]

Nord modular
Emu audity 2000
korg Ms20
Kawai 100f

[decadnids]

akai ax80
mc202
roland d20
arp2600
mini moog

[dirtyho]

202 and mini moog - nice. You know Callum - do you know Tudor too. Him and Charlie had a mad rig - all analoge, all patch leaded together, 202, 101, 808 mini-moog etc
It was great, especially when the mini-moog broke and made the best noises until you hit it.

[decadnids]

I met tudor a couple of times, don't really know him.
I was at college with calum. hence how I know him.
sounds like they had a good set up!!! ;)

[gunjack]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
well i havent had that many, but the ones i like are:

fender rhodes - but thats not a technical synth
korg poly 61


w0000000t!

[piscaries]

oh, and i forgot one more: simmons sde expander. dirty as fuck and useless as hell but it belts out some disgustingly beautiful tones.

[7875]

nord modular (dont own one but a friend has one)
roland juno 1
casio sk1
casio pt 50
prophet vs (never owned one but i used to go down to this music shop and fool with it all the time. still want one)

[namshub]

kurtzweil k2000r
sequential pro-one
oberheim matrix 6
korg mono/poly
pearl syncussion

[owain_k]

Roland MKS 80 (Super Jupiter)
Roland JD 800
Roland Juno 106
Roland MKS 30
Nord Lead

[tsr_tomas]

i like my Casio synth.. hmm, theres a Jerry sticker (from Tom and Jerrry). over the name. Cas****t-31... by now i guess you know its a old synth.

[Ruben A]

@tomazz - the you are a casio freak!? Not to forget the Rz-1!!? :)

[owain_k]

Did some mention RZ-1.......

Quality machine !!!!! 1mb sampling capacity was a revolution in its day....me thinks Steve Poindexter of Dance Mania fame used to do all his tracks on that.....just enough memory to to fit WORK / DAT vox + some percussion..........sweet simplicity.

My partner in crime used to live sets on that thing man....certainly braver than me !!!!

[garew]

I like the sound of the roland sh-5. Those bandpass filters are wonderful.

[Loz]

Roland SH-09 is brilliant in a bassy-monosynth kind of way. With the downtuned sub-oscillator, you can really get some fatness out of it.

[love_tempo]

Moog Modular
Nord Modular
Roland TR-808
Jupiter 8
Waldorf Pulse

[thesnailsshow]

Sorry if this was a Analogue Only thread, but my favs are :

Absynth
MSP
Super Collider
Alsa Modular
LinPlug Albino

[pongoid]

Q
MW
Evolver
Obis Cygma Spank&Spell
Mini

I'd add more, but of the ones I have owned these are the top 5. I LOVE these tools.


Ape

[komakid]

Nord Micro Modular
Doepfer MS404
Doepfer A100
PD
Native Instruments FM7

[bitch one]

this is so geeky

pro one
303
ms20

[emef]

yamaha dx7 and dx100
casio cz101

[Martin23]

101
W30
All Nords
Mini Moog
Jup 6 and 8

[Loz]

Why do people love the 101 so much?

I've never thought it sounded that great. Bit thin at times. Am I missing something?

[emef]

i dont like the roland sh101
i like the casio cz101
give me digital all the way
analogs for sukkies
---marvel at the creamy bottom end and the quirky iregularities of thy lord god analog---
yeah fuck off up a tree

[Loz]

or use both ;)

analogues (you're not american, emef) rock it down the deep end, but digitals have their own character, and can be used to great effect to.

[emef]

some once said to me they loved the analogue synths in one of my trax
didnt have the heart to tell him it was a dx7 on the track :D

[Loz]

dx7 is great, if you can programme it.

I once read that over 2/3s of the DX-7 returned to Yamaha for repairs still had all of their default patches on. People hadn't changed anything.

[emef]

i really dont get why people say dx7s are hard to programme
theyre not at all imo
fuckin nord modular though is a bitch, that thing hates me, im shit at it

[Martin23]

<much laughing over emef's nord love>

I love a bit of both.

[emef]

wayhaaaay

finbarr rides again :)

[Loz]

never played with one myself

I'm with you on the nord, though. So far I have only managed to get 3 sounds out of it that I was expecting. Methinks I need to read up on synthersis theory.

[system49]

Originally posted by Loz
Roland SH-09 is brilliant in a bassy-monosynth kind of way. With the downtuned sub-oscillator, you can really get some fatness out of it.

WORD
totally agree.
i love mine

[Martin23]

The Nord is easy, what a beast tho - you just have to be careful with the dials - great machines, I'd like a full rack of them.

Although the 101 can be a bit on the thin side, you can still get some great sounds out of it, nice action as well.

[garew]

I wanna hear some samples of the pro one. Sounds that aren't leads. More ambitious stuff. Also, is nord better than Reaktor with a good soundcard? Other than saving cpu and all that junk?

[Loz]

the nord doesn't need a PC to play

that's the big bonus

[Spandex]

In this order:-

Nord Modular
Yamaha V50 (4op FM workstation thing from the late 80s)
Roland SH101
Kawai K1r
Korg MS10

Probably cos these are some of the synths I own. I expect I'd like different synths if I'd owned them. Things I'd have liked to have owned... A Waldorf of some sort... A sampler of some sort... one of the Roland Digital/Analog hybrid things... an MS20.

[emef]

i`d quite like a hardware ppg wave 2