As the title says,first keyboard or drum machine.If you want you can continue on to the 2nd,etc and what you use today.

1st Keyboard:




1st Drum Machine:




2nd Keyboard:




2nd Drum Machine/Synth



What I use Now

Keyboard:



Drum Machine/Synth:



Have had others throughout the yrs,Korg M1R,Ensoniq ASR-X.And I use tons of VSTi's now but that's off topic

How about you?

 

first drummachine: the machinedrum by elektron. what a monster of a machine. the powerinput is broken now so i need to get it fixed. i'm really missing it and arturia's spark comes close to it but can never truly replace it

first synth: korg polysix

 

Very first sampler (used as drum machine too).


Then I bought this and put em togheter:


Sold both, bought both of these:



Then sold EMX-1, kept ESX-1 alongside this:


I was quite obsessed with electribes uh?
They was just intuitive and sound not so bad.
The quasimidi raveolution used to sound really good, now I regret I sold it.

From then on, just ableton and PC first, then Mac.

 

my first keyboard:



i bought it brand new when they first came out, and i still have it today.


my first drum machine:



not really a drum machine in the sense that it doesn't have any way to sequence the sounds. i used midi triggers to play the sounds.

 

http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/rz1.php

 

Oh boy, we're gong back now...

When I was a kid:

1988.. Casio SK-1


1989... Casio PT-82

When I started really getting into music:



2000... Yamaha DJX
2000... Zoom RT-123

 

my very first keyboard






then i bought this jewel in 1988 iirc, I still have it here, love it

 

after had a sr-16 which was first machine I owned that sounded like drums





Followed up by DJX

Both drum machines died and I moved into samples and computer sequences for drums two decades ago.
The synths all survive and get some use, but a midi kit on the pro one is on my to do list.

 

Dad had a Fender Rhodes mk1 when I was 4 yo:



The Poly800 was the first synth I ever bought with my own money (around age 13). Before that I had used trackers on Atari and Amiga, and coded my own sounds in Basic on a C=64 (age 11-12):

 

Wow, seeing some of this gear kinda makes me feel like a kid again

First synth:



First drum machine:



Used those puppies with one of these...



...to make my very first own recording way back in the glorious 80's, a rather crappy cover version of Everything Counts by Depeche

My mum had a cheap electric organ with a built in cheesy rhythm box.
It kinda looked like this, but with only one row of keys:



She used to play that and sing a lot of old folk songs when i was growin up. That's probly why I always want some melody in a track.
That organ was the instrument I first started to learn how to play.

 

I had a Teac 246 Portostudio, an Ensoniq ESQ 1 and an Alesis HR-16b. I was way cool with the 16 tracks of midi. Too bad I had only like 16 voices before things kinda broke down, but still....I though it sounded pretty good but deep down I knew I was only fooling myself.

 

shot from 2002, PC with 2 17 inch cathode ray tubes ;)

 

Still use the Yamaha DX7 as master keyboard:



And this is the drum Machine i used in the `90s
(in the ´80 i used Atari for a short time.

 

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My first one. Keybord I don`t dare to post... Yamaha 61 Keys from the 80s.

 

After borrowing a SR-16 from a friend and recording some songs with it, I bought a Boss dr-5 second-hand, which I have until today. I even used it live with a duo I had with a friend: he sang and played the bass (sometimes we had another friend playing the bass) and I played the guitar, programed and pressed play in the drum machine on our live performances (this baby has general midi instruments too - one of its tracks is for the drums, and the other three for the instruments - which I programed for some songs):



This was in 1997/1998. And we recorded two albuns with it, the first one in a Tascam 4 track portable cassette recorder.



Never had a keyboard: I'm a guitar player. Now I have a Korg microkey.

 

i got my first keyboard for free along with a "cubase lite" copy and a simple midi interface to control a "Quasimidi Technox". That's 20 years ago and the worst environment thinkable. But i had fun back in the days

 

I didn't know what I was doing back then (from my late teens ~ late 20's and under appreciated my gear.

1. Synth (keyboard): Yamaha - CS20M
https://www.google.com/search?q=yamaha+cs20m&tbm=isch&cad=h&norc=1&zx=1404765027495

2. Synth (keyboard): Roland - Jupiter 6
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=lQO7U4H7H8H5kgWqq4GACw&q=roland+jupiter+6&oq=roland+jupiter+6&gs_l=tablet-gws.3..0j0i24l2.129171.136362.0.136915.16.10.0.6.6.0.317.2002.2-6j2.8.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..2.14.2038.xWprtBLWFJQ
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=HwS7U4XPJ4fukgWtrYH4Ag&q=roland+jp-6&oq=roland+jp-6&gs_l=tablet-gws.3...15889.20435.0.20994.11.10.0.0.0.1.395.1456.2-3j2.5.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..8.3.823.fbItQONktLw

3. Synth (module): Roland - MC-202
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=NgS7U8ePLcnikAXlgoHoBA&q=roland+mc+202&oq=roland+mc+202&gs_l=tablet-gws.3..0j0i24l2.77415.82611.0.83987.10.8.0.2.2.0.413.1454.2-3j1j1.5.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..3.7.1470.uvNUL6eO0Lk

3. Synth (module): Yamaha TX 81Z
http://www.google.com/search?biw=1024&bih=670&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=8wW7U7vIOMWRkAXZjYGQDA&q=yamaha+tx81z&oq=yamaha+tx81z&gs_l=tablet-gws.3..0j0i24l2.20545.20545.0.21770.1.1.0.0.0.0.236.236.2-1.1.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..0.1.235.XRorbsEkIhI

4. Synth (keyboard): Ensoniq - SQ 80
http://www.google.com/search?biw=1024&bih=670&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=Cwa7U-mvBYzfkgXziIGIAQ&q=ensoniq+sq-80&oq=ensoniq+sq&gs_l=tablet-gws.1.1.0l3.65985.71745.0.73486.10.9.0.1.1.0.300.2139.2-8j1.9.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..0.10.2148.s_K7nsCAwZc

5. Drum machine: Roland TR909
http://www.google.com/search?biw=1024&bih=670&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=nga7U7_yJsKSkwX1roDwDQ&q=roland+tr-909&oq=roland+tr-909&gs_l=tablet-gws.3..0j0i24l2.12946.14262.0.15262.2.2.0.0.0.0.782.1009.2-1j6-1.2.0....0...1c.1.48.tablet-gws..0.2.1008.eCdJQuqT9Lo

 

yeah, but the picture shows a Roland MC 505. I bought one in 1997 after watching the german "wetten dass" show, where madonna performed "frozen" and William Orbit was playing with the d-beam controller. It was a fucking bad machine and i sold it with loss 1 year later