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You can get a lot of sound samples on my sounddoctorin.com SDstudio page and the global synth section of course has tons of helpful links including some with sound samples. For strings and misc. useful attributes and lots of patches available out there...I'd tend to steer someone towards a Kawai K5000 or Korg Karma if you have a little more. -Bob James Richmond wrote: > 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 > <mailto:mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote: > >> Am looking for a keyboard for the studio-good strings are a plus as well >> >> as cool World Music sounds. Been looking at the Korg stuff: X50 and >TR61. >> >> I can get decent deals on both-one being new the other slightly used. >> >> >> Any thoughts on these or others? >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> Plish >> >