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Old 9th February 2010   #1
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Can anyone tell me what synth is in this pic???


The one right in the middle. ...
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It says Pro One right on the back of it.

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haha thanks alot man
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looks like an MS20 on the right
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Should have gone to Specsavers?
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Should have gone to Specsavers?
Or turned the brightness up on your monitor.
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I really couldnt see what it said .ha.. . im just starting looking at synths , so i dont have an eye for the font of the company or anything like that ..and my brightness was up all the way already ... Is there a store online that specializes in selling old synths ?
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Is there a store online that specializes in selling old synths ?
Yes, eBay.

Try the gearslutz, Vintage Synth Explorer, and Harmony Central classifieds as well.
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im just starting looking at synths , so i dont have an eye for the font of the company or anything like that
Pretty soon you'll be able to scan a dim photo of a poorly lit studio and identify every single machine in the picture, even if you can only see a corner of it. Trust me.
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Yeah , I know .. but I was hopping that there was something cool that I didn't know about. thanks
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Pretty soon you'll be able to scan a dim photo of a poorly lit studio and identify every single machine in the picture, even if you can only see a corner of it. Trust me.
I've been doing this stuff for a couple years now and I still have trouble IDing a lot of synths in bad pictures. Mainly because it's memorization for the most part and there are a ton of synths to memorize, haha.

Even synths I'm familar with can look unfamiliar at odd angles/lighting too.

Though I have to say I recognized that Pro One right away. Not only because of the writing on the back, but because it's a synth I've lusted after for a few years now. But show some dim, fuzzy picture of say, a Rhodes Chroma and I'll have trouble figuring out what the heck it is.

If I have an idea of what it might be, I'll go to Vintage Synth Explorer and look at the pictures to try and nail it down. For example, someone mentioned an MS20 on the right side of the pic--I noticed it too but I would have to look at pics to see if it for sure an MS20 and not an MS10.

Here's a pic I posted on VSE earlier today, it's a screenshot from a video posted here. See how many of these synths you can ID at first glance. The ones in the foreground aren't that hard, but what about those in the background, on the 3-tier stand? Bonus points if you can ID the synth beneath the Minimoog without viewing the video.

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synth below the mini is a mono-poly
knob placement and panel color is the giveaway.

and the foreground is a trident on the bottom and guessing hohner ?clavinet on top of it and he's sitting at a system 100

bottom in background looks like an sq-80 middle tier don't know off the top of my head but no pitch or mod wheels plus wood sides means ???
and keyboard on top can be naything from that pic it's so glassy reflected and out of focus no idea what's on top.
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..and the foreground is a trident on the bottom and guessing hohner ?clavinet on top of it and he's sitting at a system 100..
Nope try a VP-330 (the newer kind w/ Jupiter 8 style buttons) and Trident.

He's playing an OB-X

Bottom three-tier stand is possibly a HS-60 but it's hard to tell.
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Bottom three-tier stand is possibly a HS-60 but it's hard to tell.
That was my guess too. The top one on the 3-tier looks like an SCI Six-Trak. Not sure about the middle one, my best guess so far has been a Prophet '08. Whatever it is, it doesn't have wheels to the left of the keyboard.
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Thanks for calling my bluff, kpatz! I could only identify the OB-X and the Mini (didn't watch the video). So much for my credentials.

But I will take a stab at the middle synth in the background: DSI PolyEvolver.
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