Finally did it.

[The Architecture]

Originally Posted by JKantos

As for contemporary artists? I'm a big electro house fan. I really can't get enough of the glitchy sounds of Wolfgang Gartner, or Porter Robinson, or Feed Me... Give me some grimey leads, too!

So, how come I haven't seen the Moog Voyager yet? That's always been a twinkle in my eye. Or Dave Smith's Prophet 08?

Ill break it down like this.

If you want to make electro house. SOFTWARE

If you want to make Musique Concrete. ANALOG (maybe some tape for splicing sounds together too :v)

[Liquid360]

It's just my opinion but I see vintage gear as a ticking time bomb,

Not a "bomb", but the chances are it WILL break at some point while you own it. Just like a car. It breaks, you take it to a shop, no problem (except the money... as always). If you go new you can avoid this for longer, but there really are no modern polyphonics that are analog besides the Dave Smith and Studio Electronics stuff. (correct me if I'm wrong here).

If you like their offerings, great, otherwise you'll HAVE to go vintage (if you still want analog).

But don't dwell on the repair issue, as long as it makes the best sounds, to YOU.

Ill break it down like this.

If you want to make electro house. SOFTWARE

If you want to make Musique Concrete. ANALOG (maybe some tape for splicing sounds together too :v)

Perhaps buy a current analog mono with a digital poly? Makes sense economically. You could get both with the budget you have.

[The Architecture]

Originally Posted by Liquid360

Not a "bomb", but the chances are it WILL break at some point while you own it. Just like a car. It breaks, you take it to a shop, no problem (except the money... as always). If you go new you can avoid this for longer, but there really are no modern polyphonics that are analog besides the Dave Smith and Studio Electronics stuff. (correct me if I'm wrong here).

If you like their offerings, great, otherwise you'll HAVE to go vintage (if you still want analog).

But don't dwell on the repair issue, as long as it makes the best sounds, to YOU.

in 8 years of going vintage...Ive finally started having some issues with some of my analogues. Mostly the keybed in my SH2 and connections in my MS20. Otherwise theyre solid. Good thing about some of these is that they can be easily fixed. Unless its a polymoog of course :v

[Liquid360]

Unless its a polymoog of course

Don't tempt my hatred....

[Helmey]

Congratulations JKantos on finishing school and good luck on your career in music!

The kind of music you want to compose is not something I would associate with warm, lush chord pads as much as I would glitchy electro sound effects and atonal polyrhythms.

When I studied the early electronic music composers like Babbitt and Subotnik, most were using classic, huge modular synths like the Arp 2600 and multi-tracking them. You might want to consider splitting up your funds and start investing in good modular analog gear for the glitchy Babbitt stuff, while getting your lush pads from less-expensive soft-synths, or multi-tracking your analog gear. (Lush pads are so conventional - and much easier to find than good glitchy toys!)

Happy Silver Apples!

[ohmicide]

Originally Posted by The Architecture

If you want to make electro house. SOFTWARE

Unless you're doing simpler Deadmau5 / Wolfgang Gartner type of stuff which can benefit from analog synths

[nms]

So you want a hardware poly synth and you're big on 80's..

If you don't get your hands on a Juno 6/60 or 106 you won't be as happy. Also eBay isn't that bad. Lots of great deals are had there.. You just need to be reasonably smart about it.

[ShanghaiFire]

Originally Posted by JKantos

SOMEBODY HELP ME! I'd spend as much as 3k. Building credit's always nice.

Dude I was in the same dilemma you were about 4 months ago. I ended up buying a Prophet 08 pe keys (new) Slim phatty (new) and a used mono evolver keys. spent around 3300 in total. I could pass on the sound of the evolver a bit for some reason, might have a different opinion if I had the poly. THE PROPHET 08 AND SLIM PHATTY COMPLIMENT EACHOTHER SO GOOOD AGHHGH (for what im doing)

I really like glitchy electro house like you mentioned, then I also like nu- wave 80's type stuff like kavinsky, or sebastian tellier or empire of the sun. The prophet 08 has a nice new modern tone with the capability of doing some pretty wild 80's sounding stuff...then the Moog is good for ripping bass and leads that tear the audio spectrum apart (no one bother saying it sounds "flat" or "boring", it's a capable little good deal) I would also consider a DSI mopho.

It sounds like you and I have a few things in common, PM me if you want to chat.

[SecretSilencer]

I have a little phatty and love it. If you want to spice things up then buy some moogerfoogers and a control CV for out of this world tweaking of the little phatty.

[joshuag]

there's a ppg wave 2.2 for sale in PDX. Slightly over your budget but one of the most incredible sounding synths on the planet!!!

http://losangeles.***************/ws...645970073.html