What synth do you wish you once owned?

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:57 am

Having started the "What keyboards do you wish you never sold?" discussion, I thought I'd change it up a little with a wish list of sorts.
There have been a ton of keys that have come and gone and most of us have wished we could have owned but didn't or couldn't for whatever reason.

I remember only a few years ago seeing something called a Neuron. Kind of like a Wavestation on steroids. A lot of knobs and a bunch of them that also acted like joysticks if I remember correctly. LED's around the knobs to show you the position . Very cool.
When I was a kid an ARP 2500. Not the smaller 2600. WAYYYYY out of my budget though.

shawnhar · Post by **shawnhar** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:33 am

Roland D50
Korg Wavestation
Kurzweil K2000
Yamaha SY77
Yamaha FS1r
Hartman Neuron
Korg Oasys (but my lust for that is mostly satisfied now I have a Kronos)

Having written that list down, I'm amazed how light it is on earlier analog synths! Although I enjoy a nice analog sound, I tend to prefer them in combination with digital elements, which I think is why Kronos suits me so well. MS20 + STR1 + MOD7 is to me a much more interesting combination than something like MS20 + Moog + ARP would have been...

shawnhar · Post by **shawnhar** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:34 am

Oh yeah, and I always wanted a Korg Wavedrum...

DennyC · Post by **DennyC** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:21 am

Probably, a Jupiter 80. Even though they are new, it would be cool to have one.

cello · Post by **cello** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:41 am

Would be between two keyboards. Would be either:

Yamaha CS80
or
Korg Trident Mk II

runningman67 · Post by **runningman67** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:04 am

Polymoog.

Gary Numan did a big favour to the Synth industry in the 70's with this beauty IMO.
I was 7 and I wanted one.

My dad got me a second hand, valve powered Lowrey organ instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHO ... re=related 2 mins 42 onwards

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:14 pm

iixorbiusii · Post by **iixorbiusii** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:03 pm

Out of the old(ish) stuff and being realistic, I guess I am still on the hunt for a Roland JX8P... Other than that, I've pretty much satisfied my 80's gear lust!

Zeroesque · Post by **Zeroesque** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:06 pm

SY77 or 01/W. Either one would've been much more powerful than the SY35 that I used in my teens. Then I saw a Quadrasynth demo, and that blew me away. I eventually got the S4+ rack version of that, but the honeymoon was short-lived as I fully moved to a K5000S/PC88 combo soon after.

Rockitman · Post by **Rockitman** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:10 pm

DX7, I was there when the yamaha rep brought it to Orlando Fl.
I liked it but there was already a 3 month waiting list.
I went home with the Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 which I still have.
And now I have the Kronos 73 so DX7 is off the list

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:31 pm

Memorymoog, OASYS, Wavestation, MS2000, Solina String Ensemble,
ESX... Oh wait I'm getting one!

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:41 pm

When I bought the Kawai K4 as first synth because I didn't have the money for a Korg M1, after seeing the disadvantages (bad sound) of the K4 I wished I would have saved for the M1.

However, I was not that unlucky ... almost chose for the Yamaha SY22 which is very limited as only synth (for acoustic piano/organ sounds in a rock band).

When the Korg M3 came out I just bought the Extreme about a year before (can be two) and found it to early to upgrade, so I bought the M50 ... and now the Kronos is here I'm going for that one.

Morten'J · Post by **Morten'J** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:20 pm

Elka Synthex was near buying one

daybyter · Post by **daybyter** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:28 pm

Elka X705/707 .... ok, it's more a portable organ, but had great synth sounds...

sani · Post by **sani** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:12 pm

Korg T3.
My first professional workstation which I bought in 1991. The first and last one where I really had that wow effect. None keyboard to my knowledge had such a sound variety and quality back at that times.