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Aug 14, 2021February 21, 2022

I am The Walrus 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

I admit sometimes sitting at my desk at work with no coherent thought in my head. (A pause from the great and deep thoughts that usually live there.) At those…

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Aug 14, 2021December 6, 2024

Novation Ass Station 2 🧻🧻🧻🧻

In the photo, Mr. Chris Huggett RIP who you can see was the creator of the Wasp, Gnat, OSCar and other such things. The brown tinge to the photo reinforces…

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Aug 14, 2021September 4, 2021

Moog Voyager 🧻🧻

Voyage to cat land. There was once MOOG and a few rivals. Good times, when the distinctions were plain to hear. Since then there have been clones and tributes and…

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Aug 14, 2021December 12, 2023

Ensoniq ESQ-M 🧻🧻🧻🧻

The old cat at the back of the cage I’ve owned my ESQ-M since 1987, the year it came out. I’ve taken it all around the world and made a…

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Aug 13, 2021August 15, 2022

Roland MKS80 Super Jupiter and MPG80 Programmer 🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s been nearly 20 years since I had to sell my MKS80 but now, finally, revenge is mine. This is no simple decision. I’ve bought all kinds of substitutes over…

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Aug 13, 2021June 4, 2024

Roland Juno 6 🧻🧻

A dust museum It came to pass that @stobiepole was at the Trash And Treasure looking for more paintings of dogs playing poker when he spied this on the ground,…

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Aug 13, 2021December 9, 2024

Roland JD-XA 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

Sympathy for the Devil Update – refurbishment and repairs now at the end of the article. To be up front: the only reason I don’t call this Roland’s best synthesiser…

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Aug 13, 2021August 12, 2022

KORG Volca Beats/ Bass/ Keys 🧻🧻

Too short for volcano The Volcas have been reviewed many times and I don’t need to go into much detail. Many of the reviews excuse them from being particularly good,…

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Aug 13, 2021August 20, 2021

KORG MS20M + SQ1 🧻🧻🧻🧻

I should explain that I purged myself of three Korg MS20s, a MS50 and a SQ10 about 25 years ago, for their crippling effect on my creativity. That was a…

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Aug 12, 2021March 15, 2024

KORG ARP Odyssey 🧻🧻

Hardware VS Software. There is an ancient Egyptian curse which says that he who scorns hardware synthesisers will be punished by the gods with having more hardware synthesisers arrive in…

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