Another vote for the An1X, it was my first synth. It was easy enough to get cool sounds out of it without knowing what the h**l I was doing, but it's deep enough that (having had it for 7 years now) I'm still figuring out new things I can do with it. The MicroKorg is fun, great sound, compact, and ...

if i suggest another one now, will you say, 'ok ill get that then'? haha hahahaha yeah man i know thats how i feel. I don't know anything about synths so im taking any advice. And an answer to your question would be probably if you back up your statement. lol. Welp I will see what will happen and h...

Ok I guess Ill try to save up some money and get that. It sounds good.
Thanks

Ah I really should try to get that but it seems to be running around 300+ on ebay.
I will try to save up I guess :/

I would suggest a Yamaha AN1x instead of the MicroKorg if that is to be your only real synth. The Yamaha has a proper keyboard and 10 notes of polyphony instead of just 4. You don't have a vocoder or external processing, but as a first synth I would say this would suit you better and it is quite ea...

Ok sick! I guess ill go with the microkorg!
And I have ableton live so looks like im set .

THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone for responding!

Hello, Im looking into buying a synthesizer. I have very little experience with synths. The only synth I ever played was on a casio keyboard (wk-1350). I want to get a real synthesizer now. So please help me chose one. - Budget: $200 ... $250 if I have too. I am definitely willing to get a used one....