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Why the 🧻 did I buy that synthesiser?

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Apr 15, 2023August 2, 2023

Dave Smith MOPHO 🧻🧻

Kind of like a Prophet One I guess, if the previous bounty of controls was reduced to a churlish clutch of assignable knobs and a little button marked PUSH IT!…

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Apr 9, 2023August 2, 2023

Behringer Pro-1 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Sequential Circuits Long long ago in the early 80’s we (Garry Bradbury and myself) borrowed a Pro-1 from our friend John Blades. American keyboards have always been relatively expensive so…

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Apr 7, 2023March 17, 2024

Behringer Wasp Deluxe 🧻🧻🧻

What goes zzub zzub? When speaking of ‘industrial music’ these days we tend to think of the American version – heavy metal with a sprinkling of samples and a lot…

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Mar 28, 2023August 2, 2023

EMS Polysynthi 🧻

Important disclaimer – the image is of a machine currently on sale in the USA for $89,990 USD. I don’t own this or any other. I did however use one…

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Aug 21, 2022August 2, 2023

DeepMind 12D (and Ensoniq DP-4) 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Once upon a time an American company called Ensoniq was the place for advanced and interesting equipment – like the ASR-10 Sampler, the FIZMO and an effects processor called the…

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Aug 12, 2022August 2, 2023

Electro Harmonix Mini Synthesiser 🧻🧻

I had one in 1981. It wore out. But now you can get it on your iPad. It sounds like a sick duck.

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Feb 6, 2022August 2, 2023

KORG MS50 🧻🧻🧻

The MS50 was once part of my tower of KORGs – two MS20’s, the MS50 and the SQ10. I did so much with these that I ‘burned out’ and passed…

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Feb 1, 2022August 21, 2022

Behringer BOOG! 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Now just wait one minute here – this is the guy that had a real MOOG and got all pissy about the voice tuning and then bitched about how it…

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Aug 18, 2021September 4, 2021

Roland TB303 Bassline 🧻

Why the fuck did I buy this garbage? In 1982 I was using a CSQ-100 with my SH-1. It would hold 100 notes until you turned it off, so when…

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Aug 18, 2021August 12, 2022

Roland MC202 MicroComposer 🧻🧻🧻

The one that didn’t suck. Back in the day a MicroComposer was a big hunk of metal that belonged to people like Yellow Magic Orchestra. You would see pictures of…

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