I found out the other day that the instrument collection/museum at my school has the first Moog synthesizer manufactured for sale. I also found out that they bought it from the original owner in the 80s for $5000. Crazy!

No room for discussion.

Is it also a microwave?

I thought it was an interesting question to debate to begin with but you're right, now it's getting silly. I find the fact that people are just repeating themselves and (on the whole) not listening to other people's points of view a bit annoying. I've said everything I have to say on this topic alr...

Now, I like old synthesizers as much as the next guy, but am I the only one that finds the obsessive categorization in this thread incredibly silly?

I use my Frostwave Resonator on everything.

And I'm pretty sure the synth line was lifted from Kraftwerk, but was actually played by someone else on the recording, not sampled.

I use my computer and a 4-track cassette tape recorder and a zoom H2 portable flash recorder.

If you've only ever recorded on a DAW, I would highly recommend trying a four track. I really love mine for certain sorts of music making.

Record to a crappy tape deck with crappy mics. Do not use a plugin.

The electric pianos in the second group of patches on a factory set Juno-106 are nice presets. I've used them. I liked some of the string presets too.

If you A-B two compressors at the same settings, that are both made to have a certain character, you'll easily hear a difference. Compressors that are meant to be transparent will be more similar to one another, and to the original signal, obviously.

The SK-5 and SK-1 samplers are very popular for circuit benders and lo-fi enthusiasts. Not really synths, but cool little keyboards.

The colors are so gaudy and the name is so ridiculous, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't real. Or is it confirmed that it's real?

I love my PSS-460.

I can't tell you much with specific regards to this situation, having only heard the products of DP and Cubase, since I had classmates that used DP, and a friend who's working at a studio that runs Cubase. I've never had hands on experience with either DAW. I will say that in my little music tech pr...

When I was looking to buy a cheap condenser, I actually bought two MXL V63Ms and two AT 2020s. I liked the MXLs better, because they were slightly less muddy.