my vote would go for a korg poly800, which is part analog, I had the Mk2 version, it was far from clean! they are common enough and reasonably cheap

cheers

vin

.. computer / controller keyboards? The Virus TI has got me thinking. The benefits of a 'real' tangible synth and a plug in. The best of both worlds. Or is it? Is the Keyboard/Module just a dedicated computer and set of controls for an albeit top notch soft synth? If so, does this apply to other vir...

Back in the 90s I hired a korg prophecy and emu orbit 9090 with a view to buying one of them. I ended up buying both and eventually selling both. I really should have bought neither but I had to have them!

The controller may be nice, but the screen printing has started to rub off mine after just 3 months. It took 15 years for the same to happen my sy85, so I see this as a quality issue. Obviously it doesn't affect how the product functions.

Regret getting: Kawai K1, it was cheap but I never found much use for it. Korg Prophecy, I found it a real pain to program

Regret selling: none

According to arturia it is sample based[/quote] It doesn't really matter to me if it is or not, but it according to their website the sounds are TAE powered, the same as Minimoog V etc. They state the same in the manual. They claims that they stand apart from any sample-based collection of sounds, n...

I'm new to the soft synths, perhaps in a honeymoon phase, if you will, and I love them. As a musical tool the immediacy of having everything within the computer is very appealing to me, it's given me a new lease of life music wise. For creating sounds from scratch I prefer a hardware synth with knob...

hi there, am new to the whole synth / computer music thing and am quite interested in the analog factory product plus i need a midi controller (it comes with quite a nice one) anyway. has anyone got any experience with this product? i understand that it's really just a sample player with a few knob...

Yamaha SY85 in 1992