Roland D50

 

My intro to synths was with a Casio MT-520 back in 1987... it was a gift from my grandparents and the beginning of my addiction.




But my first professional synth was an Alesis QS6 which I purchased new back in 1998

 

D50 was my second synth, brand new when released. I have always regretted selling it. Such a beautiful keybed. Makes me sad to see all the beaten up D50s on ebay.

 

Roland Juno 6, brand new 1982 Glasgow. Was going cheap as the 60 had just come out.

 

absolutely nothing wrong with this though cause a hardware synth or drum machine / sampler can be a pretty big financial and time commitment.

personally i had to force myself to only use fl studio as a midi clock and audio recorder for a long time once i got my rd8 and pro 800 because sending midi from fl studio was just me skipping actually learning the hardware workflows

 

Mine was this:

Bought it around 1997 and still have it. Not a proper synth, I know, but it had 4 tracks - one for drums and the other 3 for all those a hundred and something General Midi bass, piano, bell, string, synth, etc. sounds that we all hate today lol. I could program entire tracks on it! Even "played" it through its "pads" lol.

 

I just remembered, the first synth that I ever used in a recording was my next door neighbor's Casio MT-35. I had that Tascam 246 4 track cassette recorder and wrote a song heavily dependent on that funny little synth called "I Won't Wait On The Line At The Limelight". That year in 1985 was the year that I drove a yellow cab in NYC at night for the freaky experiences and my memoirs. Late at night a few times I tried waiting for a fare of partyers coming out but "The fairs are short and not worth the gas". Fun times! I used the cheesy drums and a few sounds to write the song.

 

Yamaha YS100 around 1989.

 

Roland D110.
It was multitimbral.....

 

Access Virus Ti2 Rack ...all I can say; what a beast!

 

Moog Voyager rack.

 

Roland Juno-60.

 

Nordrack 2

 

Casio VL-1. Two weeks later a Roland Juno 6.

 

roland jv880 & jv1080

 

The first synth i ever bought was as a job lot of 3
Arp Odyssey
EDP Wasp
Ms20
i was 16 i think and paid 70£ im 47 now! actually its my birthday today
All worked perfectly and were in excellent condition
Mind you, a week later i had the guys family trying to bullyboy me into returning them or paying alot more

my view at 16 yrs old was "tuff shitt i bought em fair n square"

 

SID

 

Happy birthday for one, and great buy!!!

 

Casio VL1 then Juno 6 (stolen) followed by another Juno 6 (also stolen) I didn't steal them, btw.

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