"I just flew in from New York...and boy are my mini-keys tired!"

The only problem with the 2600/moddy-Oddy idea is that if they don't keep the price down there's precious little it would offer that the TTSH doesn't already.

I'd just open it up (carefully, I'm not sure how complex it is inside) and pull out the keybed. It's a rubber-bubble-strip variety, so it should be pretty simple to pop the keys, take the strips off ( gently , you don't want to rip the little "posts" that hold them against the PCB!) and clean the co...

Uh-oh, people are expressing strong opinions about modern music, that means we're about due for a mod to stomp in and tell everyone to stop being so backwards and elitist...

I've managed some terrific smooth bass sounds on my MS-20 Mini.

Ditto. For $500 I can get a lot niftier, more exciting stuff than this.

All I'm saying is that all those "mini-key" analog synths are made for SOMEone. And it certainly isn't the keyboard virtuosos among us. Honestly I think it's questionable to assume that just because a product/design is commonly imitated that it's "for" anyone but the manufacturers. Especially in co...

I don't think they use regular sized keys anymore because the age of the progrock/hammond keyboardist is long gone. Artists more or less use keyboards to trigger arpeggiators and sequencers more than play 6 finger keyboard chops. And the only players who do those things are well into their 50's and...

Intriguing.

Not a book, but Gordon Reid's "Synth Secrets" series in Sound on Sound is an absolute gold mine. Here's the index: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

That's true. If freaking Roland could be persuaded to even start dabbling with analog again, I don't see why Yamaha might not be open to gradually working their way back into it.

So the ring modulator is digital? Sont get me wrong, I don't care, but I'm surprised based on the age! Well, digital logic is older than even the early modulars. And it wasn't used much in analog synthesizers, but for a budget-conscious monosynth it makes sense, since you can implement a ring-modul...

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Well, if it's so portable, clearly it must be a CS-01 reissue!

That's when all the best synths were made, anyway.