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I recently acquired a very charming old Hohner P100 home keyboard, and have been having a blast making dorky keyboard songs with it. It’s nice to take myself less seriously than usual.

I think the XP60 has a wonderfully juicy filter, even for being the epitome of 90s digital. You can get some gorgeous pads out of the thing

I'm pretty intrigued by the synth itself, and I love the idea of including a real spring reverb. I don't understand why Moog has chosen to initially release it exclusively through Guitar Center. This makes me feel weird about it, like Moog is sort of whoring itself out to a company that isn't even d...

That video was awesome. I watched it three times in a row and am already trying to figure out a way to finance one of my own. Some of the coolest electronic percussion sounds I've ever heard. Yeah! Musical ideas instantly started popping off. Already inspired by the creative possibilities of the DF...

I think the SH101 was quite popular during this time. I’m not positive that it was used on these albums, but most of these basses you mentioned are certainly possible on the SH.

That video was awesome. I watched it three times in a row and am already trying to figure out a way to finance one of my own. Some of the coolest electronic percussion sounds I've ever heard.

commodorejohn wrote:The sound chip in the Genesis was a YM2612, so 4-operator, but yes, pretty rudimentary by comparison to the DX7. Still got that distinctive FM sound, though.

Ah! Thanks for the correction. I didn't realize the Genesis had 4operator FM capabilities! Was that the same chip used in the DX100 then?

It's interesting that you should bring up the Sega Genesis sound comparison. Interesting, in that the Sega Genesis actually had built in Yamaha FM synthesizer chips to handle all in-game music and sound effects! I think they were YM3812 chips though, so only 2 operators per voice as opposed to the 6...

For influential artists, check out Pierre Schafer's pioneering work in "Musique Concréte", a style of proto-ambient music that focused primarily on using tape splices to create sound collages which were often very unsettling, otherworldly pieces that would have fit nicely into movies like Nosferatu ...

I had a JP-8000 for a while and thought it sounded brilliant. It does have its limitations, and does tend to get glitchy when you push it into extreme modulations. Some of these limitations started to really bother me after a while, and I sold it off in favor of a Yamaha AN!x. Why does the feedback ...

Then again, the AN1x fails on the full size keyboard. Good God in Heaven. Are you serious right now? How are they not full size keys? Are they one millimeter narrower than the keys on your piano? Who can possibly notice such a difference? If it is indeed "just enough to mess with muscle memory" as ...

Hey everybody. I'm trying to set up a split patch on my AN1x with an arpeggiated bassline assigned to the lower section of the keyboard, and a poly lead sound in the upper. Since I only want the bassline to be arpeggiated, and not the lead, I've set the arpeggiator to "scene 1" which is the bass sou...

Yeah, the Juno 60 isn't going to give you that gliding effect between notes. That's portamento, something the Juno 106 could help you with (or pretty much any mono synthesizer). The attack on the notes is interesting. It's quite a snappy sounding envelope. Sounds like it could be a Roland SH-2 or so...

Nice. I've got a set of grey Elektron knobs on my AN1x. They feel much better than the hard plastic ones it came with.

1) The synth that made you want to play music: I guess the first time I ever wanted to make music was when I heard "Computer World by Kraftwerk. I think the Synclavier was what they used for most of that album, wasn't it? So it would have to be that one. 2) Your first synth: MicroKorg 3) The synth ...