When did you get your first synth?

lanlan · Post by **lanlan** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:03 am

Roland Alpha Juno-2 and a TR-505 november 1986

Post by **Cruel Hoax** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:53 am

First electronic keyboard: Yamaha PSS-680 in 1988.

Stole a CS-15 and rescued it from a life of neglect in 1991. Man, that thing has been on so many records, and I doubt that the university knows it's missing even now!

-Hoax

badmrfrosty · Post by **badmrfrosty** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:45 am

hmmm.

Guess I'm the old man around here, that sucks...

...I bought my first synth (on monthly payments with the help of my folks) in grade 9, in 1979...
It was a new Yamaha CS-5 and it was $700 CAN in Halifax, NS...not exactly the synth capital of the world.

Took me a year working part-time as a cleaner in the local fish-plant to pay it off...
The next year, I bought a YC-20 organ, which I stuck throught the EXT in with an Ibanex OD pedal.

I loved that little CS-5 more than any synth I've had synth....it's like a first love in a way...

Both were stolen from my apartment's storage area when I went on the road full time in 1986

By then I had a new DX-7 and a Juno-106. And in fact, that's how I got the gig...I wasn't a great player, but I had
the keys that made the "sounds" of the day...whatever chops I now have, came from years of painfully having to pick out
cover songs!! (so don't knock it)

Nearly 20 years later I found another CS-5 for sale locally, and I had to get it, for old times sake.

This pic is my dorm-room at DAL in 1983... gotta love curly cords!

I remember the DEC 1983 Keyboard Mag, reading about this new synth, the DX-7...that was going to replace every synth!
I bought one in 1984 for $2750!!!!(CAN)

Cheers
bMf

bgi · Post by **bgi** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:52 pm

1977 or 1978. Ripped the guts out of my old suitcase organ and installed home-made mini-moog circuits. Thanks, Dad, for the schematic, Radio Snack for basic stuff, electronics store in Rome GA for the hard-to-find parts (RCA 3080 op-amp, etc.), and Delta Electronics for the scrap precision resistors.

Tofuik · Post by **Tofuik** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:44 pm

got my SH-101 during the summer of 06, that was the best day of my life. Prolly scared the UPS guy, because I was giddy as a school girl.

redchapterjubilee · Post by **redchapterjubilee** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:45 pm

Casio SK-1. 1986. My first "real" synth was 2004. Alpha Juno 1.

Spike Vincent · Post by **Spike Vincent** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:18 pm

Summer 1981.I was 19.It was an EDP Wasp and cost me £40 second hand.Still got it somewhere.

The Cancer Years · Post by **The Cancer Years** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:40 pm

My stepfather had a DX7 while I was growing up, never really played it.

Bought a Wurlitzer organ in like October of 04 and used that until I bought the JX3p, which was the beginning of my downfall.

JUGEL · Post by **JUGEL** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:52 pm

My first "real" synth was a MC-202 together with a TR-606 in 1997.

changed my life.

astraeus000 · Post by **astraeus000** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:53 pm

a used Roland D-50 back in 1990, along with an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and a couple of Simmons SDS-1 pads. I played out less than 6 months later opening up for one of the local metal bands. Wish I still had those SDS-1's.....very cool swapping e-proms and cranking on the knobs for those crazy whoooooshing sounds...

synapsecollapse · Post by **synapsecollapse** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:56 pm

5 years. thanks for the button for my number of years.

i bought an ms2000. it was blue. i was happy.

JUGEL · Post by **JUGEL** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:07 pm

astraeus000 wrote:a used Roland D-50 back in 1990, along with an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer and a couple of Simmons SDS-1 pads. I played out less than 6 months later opening up for one of the local metal bands. Wish I still had those SDS-1's.....very cool swapping e-proms and cranking on the knobs for those crazy whoooooshing sounds...

I'd love to hear any old recordings of this.. curious. Seems self-indulgent in a beautiful way.

jonkull · Post by **jonkull** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:08 pm

Well I got a VL-1 when I was 11 back in '83. My first real synth would be a Roland D10 in I think '88 with a couple more Casios in between the two.

Angstwulf · Post by **Angstwulf** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:52 am

1996. Wandering Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles and went into a guitar store that was closing (can't remember the name off hand). Was looking around to see if there were any deals on guitar pedals. Saw a keyboard crammed in sideways between a couple of boxes. Akai AX-60 for $300.00. Didn't really know anything about it. Never played a synth before. Took it home. It was all downhill from there.

It's funny, whenever I think about a new electric guitar, I get all nervous about throwing away money. I'll buy a new module or keyboard for two or three times what I would consider decent money for a guitar without raising a sweat.

Post by **shaft9000** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:51 am

1996/7 Korg Prophecy $850

I had also played on a number of school instruments before - Juno106, Korg m1, band director's arp2600 & minimoog,
....a friend's MaxiKorg
...as well as old Texas Instruments computers , Apple IIe, Tandy

when I got the Prophecy it was like....Oh-Kayy....I don't understand any of this but it sure is fun!

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