Neat idea! 1) The synth that made you want to play music: JX-3P The built in sequencer makes it a lot of fun to make a simple repeating bassline and try out ideas over it. The controls aren't too numerous so you end up playing it a lot rather than fiddling with knobs. 2) Your first synth: MicroKorg,...

I personally find the boutiques to be a bit small, and there's always the option of a vintage JX-3P. They're still a great synth and are relatively cheap. The sequencer can record up to 128 steps, you can do it one part at a time (record a bassline, then add melodies over top of it) and play over th...

The REV2 is pretty exciting. I almost find it hard to believe that it's more powerful and cheaper than the 08, it seems things are getting more competitive, and that's good for us :D I don't like what Korg is up to however. They seem apposed to making larger synthesizers, and thus just keep walking ...

I opened up my 3P to do all the checks you mentioned, started probing and everything looked fine. Confused, I put on headphones and found that the crackling went away. I blew off dust when I first opened it up, so the issue could have been that, or maybe some sort of hum when everything was put toge...

I predicted it, mine suddenly got extremely crackly today. How do you check transistors to see if they're leaky? What would even leak? would it just show a different voltage. is it possible to test in circuit or do I have to do it out of circuit, any idea of what transistor to check first?

Mine does the same thing mostly on string patches. Usually it's just because the level control is set too high. Turn it down a bit and the crackling goes away. So it's either that the level control is set too high, or that maybe mine is starting to go too

There's many different ways of recording synths and making full songs. If you plan on doing songs that are based around simple loops (such as repeating basslines, arpeggios etc.) you can probably get away with doing that mostly live and with hardware, which you would record all at once into your com...

Ok, I checked and my JX-3P has the same ceramic capacitor underneath it so that's not the issue.

It almost looks like the one leg of the capacitor is shorting to the adjacent joint, but I take it that the reason is just the camera angle. Anyways, I'll take apart my JX-3P and check if that same capacitor is there.

Synthesizers.com knobs, or moog style knobs in general.

Looks great! Will it be duophonic, or in this case paraphonic, similar to the Odyssey?

I first got into modular through the diy route since I didn't want to spend too much. For a collective total of around $250 I built myself a VCO,VCA, 2xEGs, and a waveshaper (Yusynth). I instantly got hooked and bought 27 more modules. there went the idea of saving money :roll: . Of course, since I'...

pflosi wrote:I guess you guys never play gigs?

I do, weekly in fact, but still cannot stand 49 key keyboards (or less) when it comes to polysynths. Even if it's a bit harder to carry around, at least I can play what I want to play on them.

I see these often for sale for around $1500, and to me the price is very reasonable. The synth is simple, and easy to make something that sounds good which lends itself towards many producers who don't want to spend hours making a sound as well as people seeking their first analog poly (or first syn...

There is also the Minilogue, I haven't tried it myself but it seems to fit your criteria perfectly.