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Why the 🧻 did I buy that synthesiser?

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Apr 21, 2023August 8, 2023

KORG MonoPoly

That golden age, when old analogue equipment was dirt cheap. The 90’s was on heat, and everyone wanted the stylish new sounds of digital workstations and sampled MOOGs. If you…

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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, 2022January 12, 2026

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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