Took a quick listen to a DX demo on Youtube, and it sounds like we have a winner. Of course one might expect someone who calls themself cowbell would know their drum machines.

Bit of a trick thread title here. I'm sure someone will be able to recognise what drum machine was used on Robert Quine and Fred Maher's 1984 duet album Basic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLHJ6AcbEs&feature=related Given that it was recorded on a 4 track in Quine's apartment I've long assumed it...

It's always worth remembering that rare doesn't automatically mean valuable. There also has to be demand for them. Casio VZ series synths are likely more rare than Minimoogs, but Minis are worth more because more people want them.

400 bucks will buy you a Mopho in Canada, so 350 would lose a lot of the experienced market. For that matter if you get lucky you could probably hunt up a used ER1 and EA1, or perhaps an old version EMX1, for that kind of money and have a much more flexible setup. Talk that the Monotribe is going to...

I confess that while I understand the motivation to mod, I simply cannot grasp the motivation of buying a new device at full retail so you can change it. I often find it bemusing that people on guitar forums often want to know what kind of pickups etc. they should buy for a new guitar before they'v...

No one has asked the obvious question: How many hours after these first hit the stores will we see the first "How do I make a piano sound on my Monotribe?'" post hit forums like this?

If you don't buy a dedicated Roland guitar synth or processor you'll need to buy an GK to MIDI interface compatible with the 13 pin output like the Roland GI-20 or Axon AX. The first 13 pin Roland product was the GR50. The previous generatiion of Roland guitar synths (GR100, GR300, GR700, GM70) all ...

AnalogKid wrote:As most of you know, arpeggiators are unique to synths,

Nah, they're not. Lots of organs have arpeggiators or equivalents.



The distincitive keyboard part on this tune was done with a Yamaha E70 organ.

Part of the thing about the MFB and Doepfer "minisynths" is that both companies have an ongoing involvement with developing and marketing analog synths and accessories. Korg's last long term involvement with synths with any sort of major analog content was 25 years ago. What effect that might have o...

That strikes me as a pretty major leap. The Monotron has 6 controls and a couple of jacks. Its single oscillator puts out a single nonadjustable waveform, its LFO has a single waveform, and there's no evelope generators. It has a tiny, cheap case. That's quite a way from a 21st Century MS20. And tha...

Its FM, but not much like the DX7. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug01/a ... ofmpt1.asp

Some context might help. Where is the picture from, and was it being used by anyone we might have heard of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuucfvTMwCc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42eWgZz7GXg Although it wasn't made for a specific movie some of the music on Brian Eno's 1978 album Music For Films ended up in movies. One of the "Sparrowfall" pieces appeared in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. It was suppose...

There are a lot of Jarre covers on Youtube, some of them quite good.

There's also a Yamaha CP70 piano, probably through a chorus like a CE2, played at a low level throughout the track. Synth is probably good ole Prophet 5. The shakuhachi sample is supposedly the same Emulator II sound that turned up on a zillion tracks at the time ie Tangerine Dream's Legend soundtra...