I find the character of the 90s Korg, Roland, and Yamaha synths quite different. For Roland, for me I think of the qualities of light, bright, clear, airy, precise - for the Korg stuff I tend to regard it as chunkier, thicker, defocused - in short, the sound characters are quite different and comple...

gcoudert wrote:The sexiest looking 'synth' has to be the one from the UK TV series 'Humans' (adapted from a Swedish series, I believe). Anyone seen it?

Yeah, it's a good show...

What sounds did it make? Analog? Digital? Rompler? FM? It was a 1u rack, but had *no* buttons or display? No buttons at all? Color? Stereo, mono? Polyphonic? Monophonic? What else do you remember about it? The only synth modules I can immediately think of that had no controls are the Roland boxes - ...

adamstan wrote:Reface CS is probably world's first digital synth without patch memory

You use your phone and an app to snapshot the synth patches if you want to - you can even share patches via QR codes to other people.

They look horrible.

The logo is:

r e f a c e
CS DX CP YC

YC..? Combo organ?
If so, we have an analog synth (CS), a digital FM synth (FM), a stage piano (CP) and a stage organ (YC) keyboard/s...

Almost certainly minikeys, from the size of the thing/s.

I can tell I'm gonna find it disappointing just from the logo...

HideawayStudio wrote:but at the risk of tiring everyone with my ramblings

What you've posted so far I certainly can't class as ramblings.

To be honest, even if you'd posted *actual* ramblings I think most of us would still find it interesting!

You keep getting these doozy jobs, Dan!

What's next after this one I wonder - complete CS80 rebuild..(!)

More history here: http://www.recordingmag.com/history.html The US version history can be seen at the link above. As far as I can see looking at the company records online, the founders Dennis Hill and Terry Day sold the UK Music Maker Publications to the (giant) Future Publishing company in the lat...

Did anyone scan these? If so, could you make them available... some great stuff in those mags...

That's a Roland D-50.

This is all I've got. Personnel and instruments listed for every song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_(album) The hour long Classic Album documentary on "So" didn't go into detail on this track, unfortunately, not even the extras - but it's still an excellent watch. I think it's a guitar part too ...

Always loved Manu Katche's drums on that track too... just *slightly* better than the original Fairlight demo, heh...

The first Yamaha sampling keyboard, in fact. Fun old thing...