Favorite Keyboard/synth

[john]

Hey

over the years I've owned a few synths. I just wondered what your favourite synth is? Why is it your fav?

Cheers

John

[ATom2]

Hey

over the years I've owned a few synths. I just wondered what your favourite synth is? Why is it your fav?

Cheers

John

Hmmm, let's see.

Now this is going way, way back. I had a Moog but I cannot remember which model. I wasn't even poly. Yup, one note at a time. I did however have a great slide function and would do the beginning of "Riding The Storm Out" to a tee! I miss the Old Girl.

I had some early Korgs and let me tell you this. They never went back together like they came apart. I lost two of them that way.

I guess I am a fan of the XP Roland generation. Even though their (All) owners manuals suck I still like their sounds.

For touch (I being a piano player) I always loved my Alesis.

Tom

[Riotlung]

I knew it, I need to start getting a decent keyboard/organ that has a good variety of sounds and tones to play around with...

... especially that lovable VOX Continental sound!

[virtua]

I like my Korg Trinity A great lil workstation. Not that little really! lmao

[KennyChaffin]

Well I'm interested in the topic but have only had one keyboard ever, same one I have now a Yamaha PSR 500 -- not even General Midi which makes me crazy, but I use it with my computer - Sonar - and with a Boss DS 330. I'm trying to learn a lot more about keyboards, controllers, and particular virtual synths.

I just checked out a book called "Vintage Synthesizers" from the library today to get a better feel for the history.

Some of my favorite bands were - ELP, Yes, etc. ... the synthesizer bands. Love those things so am now trying to learn how to do it, long way to go though....

KAC

[KennyChaffin]

I assumed he was asking about hardware, but I've recently updated my Sonar to version 7 and it came with Rapture LE and Dimension LE and both are pretty amazing. I've just upgraded both to the full release versions (just waiting on the FedEx truck ).

KAC

[KennyChaffin]

I got my upgrades last week so have the full versions of Dimension and Rapture along with Z3ta+ etc.

I'm pretty much overwhelmed with even beginning to get a handle on all this amazing technology!

Also got the Sonar 7 Power! book as well as the Cakewalk Synthesizers book.

A lot of learning ahead for this ol' dog.

KAC

[Steve]

I got my upgrades last week so have the full versions of Dimension and Rapture along with Z3ta+ etc.

I'm pretty much overwhelmed with even beginning to get a handle on all this amazing technology!

Also got the Sonar 7 Power! book as well as the Cakewalk Synthesizers book.

A lot of learning ahead for this ol' dog.

KAC

Keep us informed Kenny. What's Sonar 7 like?

[KennyChaffin]

Keep us informed Kenny. What's Sonar 7 like?

Well it keeps getting better. I've been using it since before it was Sonar, when it was just Cakewalk, but am trying to get "really serious" with it now. It's pretty close to a full-fledged production system (at least as much as I'll likely need) from creation, sequencing, midi, audio editing, virtual synths (DXI, VCS, etc), mixing, processing and burning CDs.

http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Eng...New/default.asp

KAC

Edited February 12, 2008 by KennyChaffin