First ever hardware synth you owned!

[hmmm]

So i just got my first hardware synth, a roland sh 101.

coming from quite a few soft synths to my first hardware synth is like stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire. its hot to work with!!! and oh so much better than twisting knobs with a mouse

what was your first ever hardware synth???

[Meriphew]

Roland Jupiter 8.

[MarcB]

if you count a casio HT-3000 as a synth then one of them...

If not , a Yamaha V50 FM workstation

[headman]

Minimoog, 1973, not a lot of choice in those days.
headman

[algae]

a Kawai K1. Loved it.

[peeder]

DW8000, bought 1986. Digitally controlled analog. Ahead of its time. Still have it somewhere...

[trancekid]

Roland alpha juno 2 when it came out. i think that was in 1986.

first contact to a synth was with a korg ms 20 which we had in school.

[lospat123]

hmmm that looks realy nice man. i dont have my first one yet lol hopefully end of month ill get one if the guy keeps it for atc1 yo! cant wait... ill play with her all day and nite and the nicer i touch the beter sound she makes!lol porno style

[mm-pro]

MaxiKorg in the mid 70's.


Regards,

MM

[cosmos]

Waldorf xt

[Absent1]

Oberheim Matrix-6 in 1987 or 1988.

To soon be followed by a Ensoniq EPS and a Roland R-8.

Man, I learned to squeeze alot of music out of that setup.

Cheers, Rob

[Jim Stout]

1985 Korg Poly-800

[networkresearch]

Arp pro soloist.

[hautacam]

SCI - Six Trak

A synth with a few more knobs would have been better to have started out on. Can't deny the sound of the Six Trak though.

[kilon]

YAMAHA PSR18, which my parents bought me in 1987. It had a rudimentary Digital Synthesizer with only 16 available options. But it was enough for a 8 year old not having a clue about music but ambitious nonetheless .

[technog0d]

I had some casio keyboards... But, my first real synth was a sampler. The Akai S1000KB

Mike

[vibralux]

My first piece of gear was Kurzweil K2000 VP - I sold it two years ago, but recently I am thinking about getting one second hand. I think that is one of the best synths ever made - the VAST architecture was ahead of its time by a decade - even now its a real beast. It lacks the „knobs”*to twist, but with todays midi controllers I think its possible to set it up nicely - and it sounds so nice!!! Not to mention the super cool onboard sequencer and sampler

M

[ilovesound]

First synth I bought was a JX-8P with the PG-800. That was back in 1986. It was a toss up between that and the DX-7 at the time, but the Soundtrack patch won me over

[dan p]

Arp Odyssey.1976.Minimoog 1977.Still have the minimoog!



Dan P

[e6400ultra]

Supernova IIR in 2000.

[The_Crooked_Man]

My first hardware synth was a Quasimidi Sirius in about 2000 (I was 16 at the time.) Fantastic entry into synthesis/sequencing as it had a little of everything (step and real time sequencing, piano roll of a sort, VA engine, vocoder etc.) The only problem with them was that, if I remember correctly, they had some strange battery/OS problem where after a few years from their manufacture date, you lost all of your patches, and all of your sequences/songs would assign random patches to each part. They went out of business about 3 days before mine crashed, and when I went to go to their website for tech support, it had already been sold to a German porn site Somehow, I still managed to get $900 for it on Ebay, and I flipped that right into a Waldorf Q keyboard

[cl516]

alesis QSR

[Lessli]

Hartman Neuron...that was my first synth GAS attack

[d1rtynyc]

My first was a red Roland SH101 w/ the handle.
I miss it so much!

[Acid Hazard]

Korg PolySix in 1996.

[Konketsu]

Roland Juno 1 in 1987, when I was 11. Saved up 1/2 the cost from my paper route and gift money and my parents matched the rest.

[alexp]

Roland JX3P. Man I had to mow a lot of f**king lawns for that thing! Got it in 85, and still have it. Its fantastic!


alexP

[Stevil]

Originally Posted by Konketsu

Roland Juno 1 in 1987, when I was 11. Saved up 1/2 the cost from my paper route and gift money and my parents matched the rest.

i scored a similar deal on my Roland D20 @ 16.

[Exmun]

Ensoniq KT-76. Loved that board.

[Feinstrom]

Borrowed a Yamaha SK-10 in 1985 (bought that exact unit some years ago for nostalgic reasons).
Bought Korg Poly-800 with reverse-colored keys in 1985. Sold it shortly after, have Poly-800II with Moogslayer and Filter mods.
Bought blue Roland SH-101 with grip in 1985. Still have that, now modded with inbuilt Mike Matthews Soul Kiss, blue LEDs and clear illuminated bender!