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| I've been collecting synths from the 80/90's- more because the prices are in the $100-300 range and I like having a lot of options. Some good ones: Roland JV1080 with world and vintage cards. Excellent bread and butter sounds, very flexible. Roland JD990 - great basses. Kurzweil K2000 (or K2k rack) - incredible sound engine, flakey sequencer, wonderful fx engine. Yamaha SY 77/85/99 - Nice strings, fm synthesis engine (like a DX7 on steroids). Skip the SY22. Quasimidi Sirius or Polymorph - More techno-oriented, great filters, Polymorph has a great interface, sirius has a nice vocoder. You could buy ALL of these synths on the secondhand market for what you would pay for a new ROMpler synth, although Quasimidi's are starting to increase in value. There are some incredible bargains going in hardware synthesis right now. These synths were in the $1-2k range on release but are worth almost nothing on the secondhand market now everyone is going softsynthy. I have no prejudice against soft synths- I have loads of them but there is something great about hardware. Try to find a used Roland JP8000 - they came out around £1500- Bought mine in Switzerland for 600 chf (about $500) and they kick ass. Incredible strings, amazing basses, decent fx (although not as flexible as kurzweil)- you really should check one out. Check ebay- if in the US try checking ebay Germany- there are always a lot of bargains on ebay Germany (I guess due to economy being a bit screwy). You can easily convert a 230v power supply to a 110v one with one simple solder join on the PCB. Takes 5 mins. Regards, Jim Richmond On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:17 PM, mike@michaelplishka.com wrote:
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