Affordable analogue synth recommendations?!

[sidneyft98]

Hi! A friend sent me a link to this place so im pretty new here.

Anyway for my 18th birthday I'm looking to find a analogue synth - preferably with an arpeggiator or sequencer - for under £500. Does anyone have any recommendations? I really liked the look, sound and features (like the patch bay) of the MS 20 but I was sad to see it didn't have an arpeggiator function. Anyone know any affordable synths like this? I'm looking to get something that can get nice retro LCD Soundsystem-like tones (think of/check out the synth bass sound on Get Innocuous!) but can also be used to create a chaotic noisy mess!

I'd also like to note that it would be preferably quite compact and portable as I'll be using it in my bedroom etc.

Thanks

[Psy_Free]

Welcome.

Ones to check out :

Arturia Minibrute
Arturia Microbrute
Novation Bass Station 2
Korg Minilogue
Waldorf Pulse 2
DSI Mopho

Plenty of Youtube demos of these so you can listen before making a decision. The last 2 will require a MIDI controller to play as they are desktop synths with no keyboards.

[sidneyft98]

Thanks. I'll check them out!

[sidneyft98]

@Psy_Free

So I've checked out the synths. I like the mini-brute, minilogue the bass station. But I felt like they had too many different features that i would really use that would inevitably bump up the price (ie, delay, polyphonic option, brute factor....). Are there any maybe more vintage styled synths with a simple saw, sine, square, LFO, ASDR etc with an arpeggiator that are cheaper than these?

Thanks anyway

[Swayze]

"Vintage" and "cheaper" are 2 words you don't typically see in the same sentence.

The newer analog synths that Psy_Free listed are all great places to start. The biggest bang for buck probably being the Korg Minilogue. But if you're just looking for the cheapest basic monosynth with a sequencer you can get a lightly used Microbrute for a couple hundred dollars on eBay.

[sidneyft98]

So i've decided that the best bet for me is an MS 20 mini with an SQ1. They seemed to be paired together often enough as well