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[Michael W]

I am enjoying an old Korg 01Wfd I bought last year.
Someone mentioned about nostalgia, I kinda miss my PolySix, but it probably didn't sound as good as I remember! I do not miss my JX-8P, but it might sound better than I remember. I had sold my CP-70 years ago, and then it turned up in a piano store last year.
I was tempted to buy it back, but played it and thought well been there, and its hard to move. The flight cased were not with it. For the price I should have bought it
just for old times sake.
Cheers Mike
PS should mention the DX-7 in the basement.....least loved.

[Hanon_CTS]

@DoctorC and ouananiche

That DX series was a (love it) or (hate it) synth.
It's fans and detractors were equally polarized.
I got some great analog synths as a result of the rush to buy them.
People were bringing heaping wheelbarrows full of great analog gear to trade for just one DX-7.

I was only ever marginal at best when programming sounds for the beastie (and I had a DX-1).

I've always enjoyed my 01R/W it's really a great legacy synth from the 90s.

Cheers guys, thanks for sharing.
Hanon

[Michael W]

Hi Hanon
Well at the time of all the Chicago and other hits I really wanted one. My wife went to buy one for me for Christmas, I and guessing 82-83, but the sales fellow was rude to her. She went to another store and the guy there suggested the JX-8P. Love that woman!! I picked one up last year (DX) for cheap, set it up for a bit. but It just seems has limited use for my present needs. The Korg I got for a song (or two) also, but I fell in love with it and I just might look for another one. My wife would kill me if I bought a Wave right now! Cheers Michael

[Hanon_CTS]

Hi Michael,
she's a keeper. Any woman that'll buy you a synth, is certainly worth it.
Who knows, maybe there's a Wave2 in the works, we'll find out in a couple of weeks.
Cheers, Hanon

[simonbeck]

I have owned three keyboards that could be described as synths. My first was a Casio CT-202, a preset poly-ensemble with 49 sounds selected by pressing keys on the keyboard. It had an odd selection of sounds by modern standards (seven acoustic guitars, four harps, no string ensemble sound) and no touch-sensitivity, but it was one of the most playable keyboards I have known, particularly the flute and organ sounds, and if you put the Viola preset through a chorus pedal, it would give a Solina a good run for its money.

I eventually added a Casio CZ-101 to my rig and became quite adept at programming it, primarily with imitative sounds, from percussion to guitars, saxes and steel drums. Somewhere I still have a ring-binder full of patch-sheets that I created. Along with the preset CT-202, the CZ-101 was my main synth for many years. You can hear some of the music I made with those two Casios here.

About 12 years ago it stopped working, and I replaced it with a second-hand CZ-1, with a full-size 5-octave keyboard, 16-note polyphony and velocity and after-touch. All my old patches worked fine, but somehow the magic was gone. I wasn't too upset when it got stolen a few years later.

[designx]

My favourites were the ARP Odyssey (not the black one), Mini Moog and SH101.

Unlike Hanon who loves his Jupiter 8 I sold mine for £700. I didn't miss it as it was constatly going out of tune and even using the tune button that flashes a light across the panel buttons back and forth as it does it's job would not keep it in tune for long. Remedy.....got it fixed with rock solid new oscillator that didn't drift........Drat...it sounded like a skinny model rather that a big fat lady. So I sold it to a Japanese guy for £700 who promptly gave me the money in cash and said he would be back to pick it up. Two years later he turns up ( I could have well have moved by then so how crazy is that) and apologises for taking so long but uses the excuse that he had to return to Japan for business. It was never missed although checking on prices he was one smart cat. Even skinny models now sell for serious bucks.

The ARP I sold for £300, I had repaired the keyboard contacts many times as they wear out but it was in mint condition and after repairs worked perfectly. Sold to buy a Juno 6. That got sold to buy a Juno 60
Mini Moog sold for £400 as it didn't have Midi.

I've now bought a crystal ball to see into the future.

[Hanon_CTS]

My favourites were the ARP Odyssey (not the black one), Mini Moog and SH101.
....I've now bought a crystal ball to see into the future.

I loved the White faced Odyssey as well.
Legend has it that it's filter infringed on Dr. Moog's patent, and with subsequent releases, it was changed, (black/gold, black/orange).



Can I impose upon your Crystal Ball to tell if, and when I'll ever get an NS2?

Cheers, Hanon

[DJKeys]

God I remember those days. Played gigs with a Yamaha CP-70 and a prophet-5. Finally got tired of moving the piano and got a DX-7 instead. I spent hours programming the CP 70 sound using the DX7, and got amazingly close. No samples in those days.

Great Picture!!

[designx]

Hi Hanon

That picture gave great memories of times gone by with Odyssey. Love to get one again.

[Hanon_CTS]

Hi Hanon

That picture gave great memories of times gone by with Odyssey. Love to get one again.

If the prices weren't so insane, I'd love to have another one too.
Perhaps one with the illuminated sliders mod.

The ARP Odyssey was pretty much a fixture in my kit for over 10 years:


Cheers, Hanon