View Full Version : Luke has ANOTHER synth!
Six Ways
05-09-2006, 05:13 PM
That makes 3!!!! I now own
1) an Oberheim OB12
2) a Siel DK80
3) and most recently (today in fact, if my dad picked it up) a Casio CZ5000.
The last two I aquired for £40 and £55 respectively, both off ebay, OMG!
Not that I think there's much to say in reply to this thread, I just thought I'd try to liven up the musician's forum a bit.
Anyway, find info here: www.vintagesynth.org => casio (on the left) => cz5000.
eheheh! I made you think I'd replied because I had something semi-constructive to say!
Mrweems
05-11-2006, 05:18 AM
Yea i played on a bitchen Synth today..
Then i saw waht it was "Roland"
Then looked at the price tag and walked away..
IT was very nice.
Trickster
05-11-2006, 01:23 PM
Who's Luke?
Six Ways
05-11-2006, 04:29 PM
The context of my post gives a hint.
Trickster
05-11-2006, 06:57 PM
I couldn't see any hints.
Sorry, I'm just being a penis. :(
Trickster
05-11-2006, 06:58 PM
I wish I had even one synth.
Six Ways
05-12-2006, 06:31 AM
It's not hugely difficult or necessarily expensive to get one. Just look on ebay for a cheap/not shit one, although I recommend an analogue one to start with since digital synths make no sense at all until you know what you're doing. And to be honest, analogue ones do tend to be more expensive, but I got one for £40 so it's doable.
somaziro
05-12-2006, 10:58 AM
Who's Luke?
LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER!
Trickster
05-13-2006, 10:54 AM
what's a good "starter" synth? i pretty much know nothing about them, but bear in mind i've played piano most of my life - so i might want high polyphony at times.
Six Ways
05-13-2006, 12:06 PM
Well you've got two conflicting things there - high polyphony usually comes with the burden of being digital, and digital synths are not good starter synths. Really good starter synths are probably the old fully analogue monophonic ones, like yamaha cs-10's, korg ms-10's, jen SX1000, loads of others. They're intuitive to use (a knob for every function), simple, and let you get to grips with the idea of how synthesis works.
If you're wanting that and polyphony, I'd go for a more modern analogue modelling (AKA virtual analogue) synth; e.g. Oberheim OB12, Roland JP-8000, Alesis Ion, etc. The maximum there is still only 12 note polyphony though, don't know if you need more than that.
A relatively good digital synth for a beginner is the Roland JD-800 (I think that's what it is) which unlike most digital synths has sliders/knobs for every function, rather than having to go through a tedious menu system. Digital is completely different to analogue though, so there's not too much that you'll learn on a digital synth that will help in future on an analogue synth, and I would recommend starting on analogue just because analogue makes intuitive sense, whereas digital is just wierd.
And of course Mr. Luke, the Roland Juno-106 is a great and relatively cheap starter, though only 6 (or is it 8? I forget) note polyphony.
One thing you need to remember is that a synth isn't a piano, and it's not meant to be able to be played like or instead of one, hence even the really high end synths still have normal keyboard type keys as opposed to wieghted piano style. And so, you really need to think how much polyphony you want, a lot of the more prominent synth sounds on record were probably done on monophonic synths.
So if you're wanting a synth for typical synth "lead" sounds, polyphony really isn't that vital, if you're wanting it for more ethereal ambient type sounds, high polyphony is a must, though remember that you'd still only be using the one timbre (unless you get a synth which has a keyboard you can split up into different parts, in which case you're probably looking at a relatively high end and not suitable for beginners type affair), so where with playing the piano you'd play chords with one hand and melody with the other, you wouldn't use a synth so much for that type of deal.
Six Ways
05-14-2006, 01:21 PM
Well said Mr AB. And in answer to your question, the Juno has 6 note polyphony.
Six Ways
05-14-2006, 01:23 PM
Hey frank, I just thought; if we really want to whore ourselves like complete skanks, we should wrap url tags around literally anything we write, linked to www.thepeppermintandroids.com so if anyone clicks on the text by accident they get to cream themselves over our musical genius!! Like this post! (http://www.thepeppermintandroids.com)
Genious. (http://www.thepeppermintandroids.com)
Trickster
05-14-2006, 03:25 PM
Guiness.
Trickster
05-14-2006, 03:27 PM
Cheers guys, I'll have a look at some of the synths you mention and the prices involved! (http://www.myspace.com/covertcamel)
Six Ways
05-14-2006, 04:34 PM
I hope I've invented what will become a net-wide hated spammer tactic.
copyright 2006 Luke Thompson.
It must be working, since we've had twice as many visitors to the site today as we did yesterday. (http://www.ThePeppermintAndroids.com)
Trickster
05-14-2006, 05:53 PM
Yes, I went and downloaded all your songs - I like Lying Again and Colour In Motion the best. I played a gig with my band just last night, where I pulled this face: (http://www.myspace.com/covertcamel)
Six Ways
05-14-2006, 07:30 PM
It must be working, since we've had twice as many visitors to the site today as we did yesterday. (http://www.ThePeppermintAndroids.com)
To be fair, that's only 4. But on the other hand, go me! (http://www.thepeppermintandroids.com)
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