Of course not. MIDI cables are available absolutely anywhere, but they still cost money. You won't get them for free.

There really is no "big fat moog sound" other than in Moogs. The analog oscillators the new modulars use are designed to be as stable as possible (pitch-tracking wise). But they are still fully analog and slightly unstable due to slight differences in the components, so when you restrike a key lots ...

What drugs have you been taking, and can I have some please?

I couldn't make any sense of that sentence.

Well, they are all analogue oscillators and filters, so they probably sound pretty much the same. And please, don't get into the "filters are all different" argument, I know the classics were made to sound different, but on these new systems you can usually pick and choose between different lowpass ...

It is definately one of these Thank you! Maybe I can find one somewhere and relive some nostalgic moments.
I love this forum! My bet is on the MT800 since Star Wars is listed in the songs list, and 1984 seems like the right year.

There are dozens of software version of it already. Every software sampler can do the exact same things. And any sequencer like Cubase or Live can sequence the notes. It is an obsolete item now.

Now, all I have on this is what vague things I remember about it. It must have been around 85-86, maybe a year or two earlier. A girl in my block had this cool white synth/keyboard that had little LED's on each key (not embedded inside the keys, just tiny round LEDs on the back of keys), and you cou...

With .com you get that cool vintage wood look (or black cabinet, if you choose), but limited set of "fun" modules, more like all the standard bread & butter ones. Nothing super exciting. With Doepfer you get lots of crazy noisemakers aswell as the classic stuff. I bought an Analogue Systems 6U rack ...

Yeah, and in 1985 when analog synths went out of fashion, you could hardly give away a Jupiter-8 or minimoog. People just didn't want "those old crappy dinosaurs" when all this new knobless digital stuff was on the market. Now they demand ridiculous high prices on the used market. Gear fashions alwa...

I couldn't find the old thread, but some russian guy had a website with tons of pictures of his fairlight. And the stacks of manuals. There is seriously thousands of pages worth of manuals, it seemed like every part of the synth had it's own phonebook-sized manual. But really, when you watch that he...

My bet is that the Quasimidi name came up at 4am on a "night session", everyone had a few beers, and one guy suddenly goes "Dudes, I saw this cartoon movie Ringer of Notre Dame yesterday, you know the hunchback Quasimodo? Let's call ours Quasimidi!"

and they all thought it was a GREAT idea.

The Phatty is an awesome player's synth, maybe not so much "programmers-of-vast-ambient-soundscapes" synth. It has a great feeling keyboard, and big knobs and big backlit rubber pushbuttons that are easy to see and reach for on stage. I spent a couple hours with one in a store, and loved every momen...

The day noone sings along to an Iron Maiden concert (including me!) will be the saddest day in my life. So screw you ;P In many cases I've bought live albums before studio albums of bands that interest me. For me it is equally important that a band can deliver the goods live and have a good interact...

Being that the CMI cost $30,000, I think most musicians never saw one. If they did see it and use it, it was probably in a studio that had one for rent. I have seen the mountains of manuals that came with the CMI 3, it's not a pretty sight. Jean-Michel Jarre used the Fairlight extensively, specially...

I know. Buying more gear doesn't really end the GAS, it just feeds it more. When I bought the mighty Andromeda, I thought that was the last synth I'd ever need to buy.
But I've bought at least 4 boards since then + a couple rack synths AND a modular system.