IMO, the V-Synth is the best "keyboard" sampler, period. If not even the best digital synth, certainly in my top 5 of all digital synths. You should not overlook it. +1 to that, well put. The first time I got to muck about in the shops with a V-Synth, I found it to be quite different to anything el...

Still one of my favourites, particularly since my copy was handed to me by the man himself, which he kindly autographed as well. :D http://i67.tinypic.com/2n9ht1c.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/1zqg5jl.jpg RB was always one of my subtler influences from the 80s - his work with Japan really stood out for...

picking up where Carlos left off in terms of electronic realisations of traditional music. It would be more correct to write classical music.... traditional music usually refers to folk music. I agree his orchestrations were good. While Carlos focused mostly on baroque music, Tomita focused on late...

Very sad to see him go. He coaxed some truly distinctive and exciting sounds from his gear, and was quite the orchestrator, picking up where Carlos left off in terms of electronic realisations of traditional music.

This is one of the funniest things I've seen from them in a while :D They are so spot on, on the over-the-top personlities and everything. All that's missing is Wick Rakeman with his wizard cape and synth magic spells. Many years back at a meet and greet, RIck actually had a good laugh at the time ...

For reasons already stated, the two complement each other nicely. Similar architectures, a ton of flexible mod-routings, including the very useable poly-AT. You could do a lot worse than an EPS for a first-time sampler - there's a great deal you can achieve with it. Of course the main thing you're m...

Bloody 'ell. That Muzines site is great. So far I've found scans of all my old MT, HS&R and E&MM mags. Lots of memories there.

Had a Hammond L-100 on loan for about a year (wonderful instrument). Own a Yamaha D-80 (the smallest of the 2-manual/solo manual spinet Electones). Also own a Gem Studium classical organ (2 manuals, AGO pedalboard - perfect for getting back into proper repertoire practice). It has MIDI in/out, and I...

Worst thing I've done to a synth? Left it alone for too long.

According to this list http://www.prepal.com/data/ensoniq.htm (updated yesterday) you'll see they seem to go around the $770 mark and I presume that's USD. ASR-10s are still going at wildly variable prices, there's one on ebay for around $1400 with full 16meg RAM and the SCSI installed. I'd hazard a...

The stringy pad that comes in later could be a sampler or a synth, but given that the sound is quite generic, I for one would be hard pressed to guess a particular synth. As for the start of it, sounds to me as though Z is on the money there. They're Sus2 chords certainly (or Sus4 depending on what ...

Looks like a Gibraltar rig to me, they're the only ones I can think of with those curved support arms. http://www.gibraltarhardware.com/?fa=keytree Bloody expensive, but really solid and you can customise them pretty much any way you like. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66D64CB0608A53E6

Can't fault you for wanting to come back to the ASR, it's a damn nice sampler. You've made a fair point about prices too, it seems to be a bit of a buyers market. Just a thought, but since you now have an SQ1+ (also very nice!), you might have a little more luck - pricewise - keeping an eye out for ...

He reads a lot does our Micke

I had a listen to the first posted link, and then the second one above confirmed my initial suspicion of a vibraphone being used. As for what's being done to it is beyond me. The original recording has some distortion which adds to the unusualness. The vibes rate is faster than your average vibrapho...