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Mar 16, 2025March 20, 2025

JX-8p or JX-10

I remember I had one of these back in the 1990’s very second hand. But if you ask me which one I had, well… I really can’t remember. Looking at…

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Dec 9, 2024

Roland SH101 🧻🧻🧻

At the beginning of my career there were cheap devices that had reached old age. My SH-1 and MS-20 were already things that you should and would twist, thwart and…

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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 3, 2023May 18, 2024

Ensoniq ASR-10m 🧻🧻🧻🧻

The Homebake music festival 1998. What are these boxes? From the bottom up: ~ A rubber pig mask.~ ASR-10m Sampler. God bless it. It was called ETHEL 6.~ Super VHS…

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Jan 5, 2022March 20, 2025

KORG modwave 🧻🧻🧻

Definitions Firstly let’s agree that any wavetable synthesiser is based on software. Whether the original Waveterm, or the Blofeld, or the Hydrasynth – you could be running it on a…

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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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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, 2021September 4, 2021

Novation Supernova 2 🧻🧻🧻

The MiniNova is a wonder to be heard, but mine has slowly fallen apart from just one show and I’d recently thought about taking a hacksaw to rack it. Then…

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Aug 14, 2021January 31, 2024

Nord Modular G2 🧻🧻

Well that sure fixed my little red wagon This was one of the first items that I wished to collect – although not a wonky 90’s rack as such, it’s…

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