Good point. But even so, there are new analog synths with amazing capabilities for well under $1000. Look at the Behringer Deepmind 12 -- That's 12 voices, at 2 oscillators per voice! And at this time, it's only a little over $800 on Sweetwater. And there are also the Korg Monologue, Minilogue, and ...

Yeah, hardware synths were very expensive back in the 1970's and 1980's when they were first becoming popular. I would put the inflation at about 500% since the late 1970's -- maybe more. That's just based on personal experience, such as a $1.00 magazine back then costing at least $5.00 now, or a $4...

Seems like the original poster was talking about the newer Korg version of the Arp 2600, which I'm seeing online for about $3900. But it seems that this is a limited edition product with a wait list, and new ones may be in short supply and may not even be available, which could explain a $6000+ aski...

And let's not forget that, unless you're recording directly to something like an analog reel-to-reel tape deck or directly to vinyl, once you record the output of an analog synth using any modern digital recording technology, that smooth analog signal is now also broken down into a series of numbers...

That all makes sense. I did a little Googlin' about the subject and it looks like the pitch bend wheel is, indeed, not programmable. But it appears that the fixed range is supposed to be up and down by about a third. Some people said it is a major third one way and a minor third another way, but wha...

I'm not familiar with this particular synth, but maybe the up and down ranges of the pitch bend wheel can be set independently, so that it can be set to go up and down by different interval amounts? This is just a guess, as I know my Roland GAIA SH-01 has this feature.

Hey, great! Thanks for the update, and I'm glad that worked for you. Sometimes you can sort of "bend the rules" or go about an alternate route to get to the sound that you're looking for.

Thanks for the reply. That's what I was thinking, but then that brings up two questions. If they only use a single oscillator for the ring mod effect, then that would produce a different sound than when a dual-VCO per voice synth does ring mod, because with the dual-VCO synth, I would think that eac...

Have you tried using the LFO to modulate the filter? Sure, if it's done to excess, you'll get a wah-wah effect that you may not want with a piano sound, but done subtly, it might give you the effect you want.

You might be surprised how many prized older synths don't support any kind of amplitude modulation. SH-101 and Junos, for instance. The ARP Odyssey only allowed it via the EG retrigger feature. By the 1990s AM was pretty commonplace, but still not all synths had it. Even today's Korg Minilogue and ...

Just curious about this. As I understand it, ring modulation is when the synthesizer uses one oscillator to modulate another oscillator in a certain way at frequencies in the audible spectrum (as opposed to low frequency LFO modulation) to generate new and complex sounds. Yet, as I check out the spe...

I have no experience with this keyboard, but it is listed in the "browse the gear" section of this site, currently with 117 comments and good reviews. You may want to check it out. Perhaps some of the comments may answer questions you have about this synth.

I used to have a DX7, but haven't had it since the early 1990's, so I don't remember if the headphone and output jacks were affected by each other or not. However, if your goal is simply to hear what you are playing through headphones while you record your playing, then there are easy ways to accomp...

I've been working on a drawbar organ emulator for my GAIA, and I just wanted to post what I came up with, so far. This is an example that uses the three separate synth engines of the GAIA to make some pretty complex sounds. I used the self-oscillating mode of the resonant low-pass filters to get a s...

I just wanted to let everyone who may be interested know that I ended up swapping out the GAIA SH-01 for another one, and the new one does the same thing with the pitch bend lever. So, it appears to be just a design flaw, and not a defect in any one specific unit. Honestly, for the way the pitch ben...