Your very first synth

henrod · Post by **henrod** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 3:45 pm

Korg Poly800 followed shortly after by a DX7. Sold the Poly decades ago but still have the DX7 and it still works.

Synthesizerplayer · Post by **Synthesizerplayer** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:41 pm

Hi

Why is Casio not on this list? HZ600 was my first synth

Regards

slug · Post by **slug** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:52 am

Waldorf MicroWave XT

RedHouse · Post by **RedHouse** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 9:40 am

Kawai K1, closley followed by a Korg M1

i bought the Kawai because the lead time on the M1 was soooooooooooo long......and I couldn't wait!

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:00 pm

Yamaha PSS-470, yeah baby. Gotta dig those bossa nova beats! MS-20 eat your heart out.

Well, you did say first synth.

Although it was a toy keyboard, it actually had basic FM and sound shaping! Had it around 1988 when I was 7. Learnt to play music on it, and later a PSR-300.

Seriously, though, first proper synth was the Trinity V3 in 1999 when I was around 19. Still gets used.

henrod · Post by **henrod** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:33 pm

henrod wrote:Korg Poly800 followed shortly after by a DX7. Sold the Poly decades ago but still have the DX7 and it still works.

... I used a Wavestation keyboard for a few years that I got as b-stock from whoever the Korg rep was at Sam Ash in NY when I worked there in 1993. Honestly, I used it mostly as a controller for the JV-880 in my rack, but I spent a lot of time messing around with the wavetable sounds when not on the gig. I lent it to a buddy for his studio many years ago and he's still got it and still uses it. Pretty cool.

7zark7 · Post by **7zark7** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:43 am

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=98658

Korg Poly-800

-7zark7

Derek Cook · Post by **Derek Cook** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 6:28 pm

Yamaha CS15 me. Kept it from 1982 until 2011 and made a profit selling it, which surprised me

Sold when being fed up of dusting a black synth with knobs overrode my sentimental attachment to it!

First poly, after a long hiatus from music, was a DX7II in 1999. Sold when my own software could import DX7II banks into my FS1r.

First Korg in 2014, when I got the Kromos....

Mutiny in Jonestown · Post by **Mutiny in Jonestown** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 9:55 pm

Both of mine aren't on the list

1st ever synth was a polyphonic Crumar Trilogy...though it was more an organ/strings/synth than a pure synth. To set the 8 memory slots you had to detach the top which lifted up and exposed a PC board with variable resistors which you twisted around with a tiny slot screwdriver to the settings you wanted

1st ever true synth was a Sequential Circuits Pro-One...

Bald Eagle · Post by **Bald Eagle** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 2:12 am

Hammond B3 ... Perhaps not a synth in the traditional sense ... But still a fine electro-mechanical additive synth. They just didn't call it a synth back then.

Synthee · Post by **Synthee** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 10:57 am

My first synth was a modular, PAIA 4700, that I bought like a kit and build myself.

Then I bought a Korg Polysix!

Mutiny in Jonestown · Post by **Mutiny in Jonestown** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:08 pm

Synthee wrote:My first synth was a modular, PAIA 4700, that I bought like a kit and build myself.

Very cool...for my 1st synth I almost bought the PAIA Proteus kit but the SCI Pro-One was a couple hundred dollars more and I didn't have to do the assembly...which I probably would have messed up - being color blind makes reading resister color bands tough

dimitris · Post by **dimitris** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:07 pm

ENSONIQ TS-10!!!

Weirdofromouterspace · Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:56 am

Yamaha DX21, since around 1993. Still have and use it, only service it ever required was a new battery which I installed last year

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CowboyNQ · Post by **CowboyNQ** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:33 am

Yamaha DX-9. It was awful!

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