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Not only can it do a lot, it also sounds really good, even after 15+ years. I don't use mine all that often anymore but when I do I'm always having a blast. This thing is incredible indeed.

While we are on the subject, the Novation MiniNova is around the same price point and has, IMHO, comparable flexibility and a wonderful, less strident sound.

Though now you make me want to get another microkorg...

I quite like the Microkorg but I do find it always sounds like a Microkorg... For better or for worse. It has this chewy (I don't know how else to describe it) sound to it and I never know if I love it or hate it.

I want one, though!

A part of me really wants the Modal Skulpt polysynth. It's the same price as the Microfreak, but for the 3 seconds I spent with that one... No thanks.

Got a Roland Juno Alpha 1. It is 80s to the core. Still trying to figure out if I like it, or if it will mostly be a MIDI controller.

Those are wonderful synths. But that all depends on if you like the sounds, though, I guess. If you have an iPad, I think there's an app to control/program it...?

Play it into some spacious reverb and

I've wanted one for awhile now as a more travel friendly alternative to lugging around my Juno 106. I hope you end up digging it.

There's this controller for the alpha juno, and it looks rad as hell. I mean, it costs a lot, but it's skookum hardware and being able to control 2 junos simultaneously to effectively have a 2 oscillator juno is pretty awesome. Especially since you could set a patch across both and then tweak it a bit for some really cool sounds.

They also do one for the JX 8/10P.

ANyone out there know if there are swappable curtis chips out there?

I'd love to replace the filter on my prophet with a Moog-style ladder(?) filter.

tdbajus wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:14 pm

ANyone out there know if there are swappable curtis chips out there?

I'd love to replace the filter on my prophet with a Moog-style ladder(?) filter.

Ask Behringer, they make 'em.

Speaking of Behringer, I wonder if they'll ever reissue old JX synths. There's always been something about the JX-3P for me that I just love. I could get one, and either add a programmer and accept its limitations and age or do the kiwi mods for a bunch of money and have something that rivals anything out there... and is also ravaged by time.

They need to hurry it up with the OBX.

mackerelmint wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 01, 2019 11:20 am

There's this controller for the alpha juno, and it looks rad as hell. I mean, it costs a lot, but it's skookum hardware and being able to control 2 junos simultaneously to effectively have a 2 oscillator juno is pretty awesome. Especially since you could set a patch across both and then tweak it a bit for some really cool sounds.

They also do one for the JX 8/10P.

I had looked up this controller. I don't think I play well enough to invest in something like that, as much as I'd like to. It'd be like spending $400+ for something I'd barely use. BUT THEY LOOK SO DAMN COOL.

They do look cool, and they are pretty good for making synths sound cool, too.

I'm just glad they exist.

I just bought a 1978 Roland MP-600 electric piano in excellent condition. There's next to zero info on the internet. Supposedly they have a 64 keys weighted keybed, a great dynamic range and work with a single divide down oscillator and a few filters that can be mixed together.

They do look awesome:



...and sound really nice. I'm really looking forward to recieve it in a few days.

Zork wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:57 am

I just bought a 1978 Roland MP-600 electric piano in excellent condition. There's next to zero info on the internet. Supposedly they have a 64 keys weighted keybed, a great dynamic range and work with a single divide down oscillator and a few filters that can be mixed together.

They do look awesome:



...and sound really nice. I'm really looking forward to recieve it in a few days.

That sounds lovely. More basic piano sound as opposed to a Fender Rhodes. I really like it. Your picture doesn't show quite how big the back of it is, the way that video does. That thing is a beast! Get a good deal on it?

Well, vintage e-pianos that don't sound like a Rhodes or a Wurli are just not very popular and can usually be had for cheap. The Roland is apparently around 250€/$ (which is also what I paid) but is quite rare.